Photoshop Action (with Color Efex Pro 4)
If you have Color Efex Pro 4 from Nik Software installed on Photoshop, you’ll know it has some pretty amazing features. Of the many filters and recipes that are in Color Efex Pro, I really love the Image Borders. In fact I like them so much I’ve incorporated them into a special set of actions.
You can download the action set here: https://www.gavtrain.com/swpp/nik.zip
Once you unzip the download and install the action set in Photoshop you’ll find there’s not one, but four actions to choose from. Each action will create a duplicate of your current (on screen) photo, resize it to the perfect size for Facebook and add a border from Nik Color Efex Pro 4 (assuming you have it installed). Then the best bit. It will also and the words Photography By Your Name. Just double click the “Your Name” layer to change it.
The last action allows you to choose your own border style. With 14 border types and 9999 variations of each to try, that’s a lot of choice.
Hi Gavin,
Thought you and your reader’s might like to no that this also works straight in PSE9 (with a few error and no black boarder (this i did by added the action files to the C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\9.0\Photo Creations\photo effects folder)
But also i downloaded the demo of Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and now i get the added black boarded.
Also by adding the action file to the C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\9.0\Locale\en_us\Workflow Panels\actions folder it works under the guided – action player area of PSE9 with all 4 option of the action 🙂
Hope that is of some help to everyone.
James
Thanks James, I’m positive that will help a lot of people.
Thanks for the border actions Gav most appreciated
Thanks, Gavin. Do you have a version that doesn’t resize it for the web? In other words, if I wanted to print a version out in high resolution?
Would you have a version that uses a drop shadow instead of a border?
I tried pinpointing the action steps to modify to change these, but wasn’t sure how without messing up the rest of the action.
Thanks.
Hi Gavin, I was using this, and discovered that it was disabling the clipboard in CS5. I was not sure whether it was actually the plugin or the auto-launch of the panel for bruch adjustments in Nik software. Anyway, the only option i had was to uninstall the plugin, which was a great shame, because I really liked it. I also had the same problem with Nik HDR effects too. Just wondered if it was just me or has others encountered this issue?