10 Instagram Cross Processing Photoshop Actions

Previously we have published a round up post about Lomo Cross Processing with 20 collection of photoshop actions. Now we're back again with another selections of Photoshop Actions to help you creating beautiful photos that look like they are made with Instagram filters or effects.

Enjoy and have a great time experiment with these free photoshop actions! =)


Instagram Photoshop Action by ~eboye

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Instagram Ps Action by Jean Carlo

Fuji Film Instagram by ~XochitlCumanda

A Photoshop Free Instagram Action by creativenerds

Instagram Filters as Photoshop Actions by Daniel Box

Instagram Nashville Preset by Amanda

Instagram 'resizing' photoshop action {FREE} by Kelly McMahon

Magical effect 4.0 by *sa-cool

Cherry Vintage PS Action by *ohsoexclusive

Summer Vintage PS Action by *ohsoexclusive

TUTORIALS & RESOURCES
10 Photoshop Actions to Create Instagram Style Effects - Written by Chris Spooner
Quick Tips: Instagram your images using Photoshop by François Hoang


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20 Lomo Cross Processing Photoshop Actions

Since the beginning of the 90's, Lomographic community worldwide produce a flood of authentic, colourful, crazy, off-the-wall, unfamiliar snapshots with a small Lomo LC-A camera. Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Characteristics such as over-saturated colors, off-kilter exposure, blurring, "happy accidents," and alternative film processing are often considered part of the "Lomographic Technique."

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Somehow to have the Lomo look and feel in your photos, it is not necessary for you to have a special Lomo Camera. You can create this effect using Photoshop Actions.

Here are 20 selections of Lomo Cross Processing Photoshop Action for you to experiment with. You can try different colors cross processing, create a 'Fish Eye' Lomo effect or brilliantly yield the retro style to your photos in a few clicks with it.

If you're a truly passionate Lomographer, don't miss some Lomo resources icluded in the end of this post for inspirations and to link your works to some Lomographic communities.



Lomo-Cross Processing Action by ~efete-stock

Lomo Fish Eye by ~zin29

Tilt-Shift and Lomography (Auto Holga) Photoshop Actions

PS Action--Retro Love by ~pseudonymfreak

Lomo Effect - PS.Actions - by ~photoshop-stock

Action 3 by ~ZeroComrade

Action 5 in #Ps-Actions by ~ZeroComrade

Action 2 by ~ZeroComrade

Lomonia by ~ashley-nash

lomold action by ~turunchuQ

Photoshop Lomography Photo Action

Lomo PS Action

Vintage Lomo Effect Action

Lomo Action Set by ~WingsOfAHero

action no.8- lomo pink by ~bellalleb-stock

Vintage Lomo Effect by ~NamfloW

LOMOTOSHOP: ActionSampler by ~NELZ

Lensbaby Action by ~tammy-angela

Lomo1 by ~zin29

Lomo2 by ~zin29

TUTORIALS & RESOURCES
Cross-Processed Lomo Effect - Photoshop Tutorial
How to make digital photos look like Lomo Photography
Lomography.com
Creating a Cross Processed Effect in Photoshop


EXAMPLES
Showcase: Lomography
The Colors of Cross-Processing - Sample Shots for many Slide Films by mephisto19
40 Amazing Lomography wallpaper and Tutorials
The Disturbing Beauty Of Oversaturated Pictures and Lomography


FLICKR POOLs
Cross Processing - FILM ONLY
Lomographic Society International
Lomography for non-snobs
e-Lomography


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Rui Vieira Photography & Design

I call his name: "Rui" ~ Rui Vieira is a Digital Photographer and design freelancer from Portugal who enjoys his time by exploring fantastic scenes of urban art photography.



Dynamic flow in Simplicity is what his design is. You'll see many of his poster designs are actually amazing composition between highly photography effect and modern typography layering. Nevertheless, he always passionate to snap urban spots and even the multicultural urbanity in it.



A conceptual photograph of his, titled "Communication" is one of my favorite. Smartly taken as a simple daily portrait of how the urbanists are moving time and moving life with a communication tool.

Communication by ~RuiVieira on deviantART


Sometimes, his inspiration comes from cityscape corner or high rise architecture building. The "Linha Tejo" poster design series are displaying architectural element that collaborates carefully-picked typography.


Another instance of archi-typo poster designs of Rui Vieira could be "Headline" and "Zero2"


Headline by ~RuiVieira on deviantART



He has decided to move from Blogger to Wordpress blog platform to get more enhanced features on posting his poster design and photography. Be sure to visit Rui Vieira Graphic Design website if you're interested to see his design portfolio. You can also visit Rui's DeviantART profile with great deviation ;)

This article post is a contribution to "Design you love: a group writing project". (Thank you to Mirko of Designer Daily who made this event possible). A late submission I know :D (due to my heavy scheduled tasks) but the main thing is that: I hope you all will enjoy this short design review. I've missed the blogging days moment and I miss replying wonderful comments posted by the wonderful you! Have a great weekend everyone :)

10 Flickr Groups for Designers

Sharebrain Flickr Group
If you are a designer, web-worker or just a creative person feel free to share your work with the community. Designs, Layouts, Photographs, or Logos are welcome. This group is quite new, but you may have the opportunity to be featured on sharebrain.info web resource community.

Web Design and Graphic Design Group
Web Design and Graphic Design group is created by Alex of CrazyLeaf Design blog providing news and resources for both beginners and advanced designers, coders, photographers and graphic artists.

Graphic Identity Design Showcase
A place to share many things about graphic design resources and share your graphic design to receive comments and constructive criticism from other member's community. If you were using Graphic Identity's free designs box to your design, just don't hesitate to submit your work by joining this group :) We have published the first Graphic Identity User Showcase and get ready for the second roundup guys!

PSDTUTS
This group is for readers of PSDTUTS photoshop tutorial website, to post up their creations using or inspired by the tutorials and you can chat with each other and generally show off the design work!

BittBox User Showcase
A Flickr group for anyone and everyone who would like to share their designs and what they have learned or used from BittBox Freebies/Tutorials.

Go Media User Showcase
Post your art or designs created using stuff from Go Media's Arsenal. If you get lucky as they like your design, it will be highlighted on their blog at www.gomediazine.com.

My Ink Blog
This group was created for the readers of My Ink Blog. So they can show off their work, or the results of stepping through one of the tutorials.

Abduzeedos
A group made for Abduzeedos blog readers. Stunning graphic designs are posted here.

What is Graphic Design Poster Competition
The pool was created for Graphic Design Poster Competition contest held by Veerle's Blog in the early of July 2008. 623 posters were submitted and you can also check out some of the incredibly awesome winner's posters on Veerle's Blog

The Business Card
This group is all about business cards. Design, application, and distribution. A great spot to discuss good quality of card designs and aesthetics. Compare and contrast styles, composition, and technique.If you're proud of your business card, just join to start posting your creative biz card!


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• What is Graphic Design Poster Competition on Veerle's Blog

Blog Action Day : Environmental Awareness

October 15, is Blog Action Day , and the theme this year is "environment".



Joanne of Laidback Buddhist, pointed me out about the Blog Action Day. I've been planning to write a short post about a beach near my hometown, in north-east of Surabaya, Indonesia.

There is a small population of fishermen, where all the people depending so much to find living from the seashore until 5 kilometers far of radius from it. The fisherman community would about to vanish in another 5 years or shorter.

It was started when the local government decided to build 10 km Highway Bridge to connect the main island of East Java, Indonesia to a small island called Madura. According to one of the fishermen community member, they are now can hardly find fish and their income has been decreasing ever since. The sea environment was destroyed by the massive highway development.



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Photo Contest 2007 - “Photos On a Theme”

Jordan McClements of IrishViews.com with 70,000 visitors per month have started a photo contest this week. It’s an interesting contest to join and the submission entry is labeled “Photos on a Theme”.

If you have at least 6 really good photos on a specific theme, which you think would look good as a Desktop Background / PC Wallpaper, and then you have a chance to submit them right away.

Some examples of themes are:
“Scotland”, “London”, “Fishing”, “Snow, “Glaciers”, “Forests”, “Rivers”, “Boats” etc.


RULES

• THE PHOTOS MUST BE YOURS!
  
• NO recognisable faces of people.
  
• NO copyright stuff (Disney, Sydney Opera House etc)
  
• 1024x768 pixels in size (please crop if your camera does not take photos in 4:3 aspect ratio) (If your submissions are not 1024x768 pixels, 4:3 aspect ratio then they will have to be REALLY good for me to consider them)
  
• JPEG (reasonable quality – preferably between 200KB and 300KB file size)
  
• You must have at least 6 related photos on a theme.
  
• Email all photos on a specific theme as one email to jmcwd.com@gmail.com with the “theme” in the “subject” line.
  

Closing date: 31st October 2007

Visit Jordan McClements’s photo blog : Make Money From Photos Online  for further details



If you have any question about this contest, you can enter to Jordan McClements’s Discussion board at Blog Catalog

BenSpark’s August Add it up Contest

Do you ever wish to have Flickr or Zooomr Pro account? Here is an interesting way to grabb it for free.

Ben Spark starts a contest in August, it has been going fun and so easy. All you have to do is collecting points by writing a Blog about this contest and just comment on Photo-A-Day post for the month of August. (limit one comment per PAD post).




Earn 5 points by voting The BenSpark Blog as Photography Blog of the year
And please do link back to my site  Graphic Identity Affiliate (http://graphic-identity-affiliate.blogspot.com) for the reason that you vote The BenSpark.

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Digital Photography Tutorial Compilation

Its a very interesting tutorial compilation about Digital Photography tips and trick:http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/digital-photography-tips-from-around-the-web-4-july-2007/

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Visual Communication in Photography

Sometimes you would see photos that are ordinary in the look, you are tend to put them in your photos album privately because there is nothing special at all about them. You keep it that way and wondering why. Anyhow, photos or pictures tell story about wonderful moment. They had better communicate that moment when we enjoy seeing them. Old photos, wedding photos, children, subjects, landscape, objects and every kind of moments tell you stories in a different way.
There are 5 easy ways to make your photo shot communicate visually.



1. Capture Angles




Your digital pocket camera has an advantage since you can move freely to capture photo model or subject to get certain angles. Instead of capturing at eye level (like everyone do), try extreme angle to get your best shot moment. Capture image using low angle, bird eye level, or side elevation. This technique will bring much better variation to your photo shots.
Close up photo can also become a good solution to capture photo subject using uncommon angle. Use flash light and activate continuous shot to avoid blurriness.



2. Digital Retouch

Red eye as a result of excessive flash light when you took picture in an indoor environment could be easily edited by Adobe Photoshop. You can use Patch Tool, and Clone Stamp Tool. Healing Brush is also common for removing unwanted spot marks, especially when you want to edit a close up face photo.



3. Use Filter



Filter in photo can bring certain expressive color mood. A filter changes the color balance of light and correct colors. Special uses in filters can be implemented for darkening blue skies, darkening an overcast sky, stressing texture of sand and snow, reducing haze and to get the right skin tones. In some extension, there are also special-effects filters such as: star filters, multiple-image filters, diffraction filters, and diffusion filters. Diffusion filters can be divided into fog filters, center-clear filters and motion filters. Experiment using filter on each of your photos, and see the different.


4. Use Silhouette Effect



Subjects can be further simplified by using a silhouette or the opposite of a silhouette which would be a bright form against a dark background. To make silhouette first requires a bright background. The sky is the most common bright background. A white wall, sun-reflecting water, a bonfire, and other bright sources work as well. Underexpose by 2 or 3 stops to darken the subject and make a silhouette out of it and helps when you are a photographing a highlight against a dark background. Suppression of detail through underexposure creates bold poster-like image.


5. Background and Subject Composition



There is no doubt at all, that background behind the subject influences the whole photo look. Bright skies, natural vegetation, landscape, or architectural background are common in photography. The most important thing is not to be overwhelmed in one frame. Pick the right background and imagine that it won't ruin the subject itself. What if your background is a crowded place and too much color combination in just one frame? The best way to create an eye catching subject in such scene is to filter your background or use center clear filters. Capture your photo subject in a close up shot and use wide depth of field.

Photo Stock Download

If you are a designer, you might need some photo or digital art work to make over your whole design. These Photo Stock websites will provide you a profesional look photos, not to mention the digital art (vector, flash, and pixel format) that you can download start from $ 1 each.

There is more, since these Photo Stock websites included high-res photos and you can search down wide variety category by putting certain keyword, and download them instantly after you complete the payment form.

Photographer and digital artist, have a good chance earning money by submitting photos and graphic art. But there is some easy quiz to fill out for qualification step.

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