Extract Detail Action
This weeks Friday Freebie is a brilliant little action that pulls out and amplifies the small detail and textures in your photos.
As with all actions the strength of the effect will vary according to the number of pixels in the image but this one gives great results with pretty much any sized photo. You’ll need a copy of Photoshop (CS2 or later) to make the action work and at the moment it’s untested on Photoshop Elements but should work OK.
Once installed you’ll find there are three actions in the set. They’re level 1, 2 and 3 and basically it’s the same effect with three different strengths.
The action is fully self contained which means you don’t need to do anything other then click the play button. It also makes a copy of your photo (called Extract Detail) so you can copy and paste it back on to your original photo and blend in the effect as you wish.
You can download the action from here www.gavtrain.com/free/extract-detail.zip
Usual rules apply. The action is copyright Gavin Hoey 2012. You may use it for personal, non-commercial purposes only and please do not redistribute without permission. Thank you and enjoy 
Thanks very much for sharing. It gives a similar effect as Lucisart – Lovely!
Thanks again Mate, this was the easiest Action I have loaded and used! I’ll select a proper image later to show my results. You are an asset to the photography community world wide. Marks out of ten for Gavin, 10!
Thank you Gavin for this Action.I try to see all your videos in youtube because they help me to improove my efforts.
Fantastic! Thank you Gavin! And Lenny’s comments above are too true mate.
hi gavin love all your videos have learnt alot from them, keep up the good work. download the extract link can not find in cs5, wondering if you can help me out. thanks alot
Download the action to your desktop and unzip the folder. You’ll then need to load the action into Photoshop. There are lots of ways to do that so I’d suggest Googling the question if you’re unsure.
Thanx, Gavin. Another brilliant addition to Photoshop. This one will get a lot of use. I have learnt so much from you.
Far out! Thank you!
Su
Hi Gav, tried this action in photoshop elements 8. When I donwloaded zip life and extracted only got one action. Should there be three for the different levels? The one loaded and worked fine thanks.
One Action set (folder) which contains three actions 😉
Hi Gav, i used this in Elements 10 and works perfectly…Happy Days 🙂
this action is very good. I just discovered this web page and so far i am having a blast.