These Free Photoshop Enhanced Filters Put the Default Ones to Shame
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- 22 Jul 2022
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Unsatisfied with the default selection of filters in Photoshop, developer Terry Johnson has created a set of enhanced filters that greatly improve on Adobe’s and can be downloaded as a set of free actions for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
Johnson, is one of the two developers responsible for Image Color Transfer, a browser-based application that allows a photo to be color graded to match the color of another photo, similar to the “Match Color” feature found in standalone photo editing applications. After the success of that launch, he did not rest on his laurels and got to work on his next project: improving Photoshop filters.
“Photoshop offers a wide range of filters for processing images. Some are very good but some are, shall we say, a little underwhelming,” Johnson says.
For example, he points to Photoshop’s Graphic Ink filter.
“My first reaction when I saw this was, ‘Couldn’t the draughtsman afford colored ink?’ Fortunately, this question has now been addressed by the provision of an enhanced filter in the form of a Photoshop Action.”
Improving on the Graphic Ink filter is just one of several Johnson has created that he calls an “enhanced filter” take the form of free-to-use Photoshop Actions.
“Whereas Photoshop Actions normally offer new graphic elements or a means of modifying images to produce a particular look and feel, the Actions I have developed are different in that they genuinely extend the processing range of the basic Photoshop offering,” he explains.
The Actions he has created fall into four basic classes: Enhanced Black and White filters, Enhanced Grey Shade filters, Modified Colored Filters, and Auxiliary Filters.
Johnson explains that some Photoshop filters produce images that have areas of pure black and areas of pure white, but do not allow for intermediate shades of gray. The Enhanced Black and White filters improve upon Adobe’s and introduce a colored variant. This set includes the aforementioned enhanced graphic ink filter and also a better stamp and torn edge filter.
The Enhanced Grey Shade filters take the result of Photoshop’s originals and modify them to integrate color. Read More...
