“Catch the Spirit” Photoshop Action & Presets
Preset for Monumental Tree Photography
This Action & Preset saves you hours of meticulous processing. Get that fantasy mood straight from The Lord of the Rings in under 4 minutes!
With this action you can create:
“Feelers”
“Moment’s Distraction”
“Light Ritual”
“Catch the Spirit”
“Druid Tree”
“Monstrous Growth”
Here’s how you use this action in 4 minutes:
Please excuse the rough video. It is not edited and this is real-time!
What is an action?
It’s much more than a simple preset. A Photoshop action is a recording of all the stuff I did while post-processing. Just press play in the Photoshop Action panel, and magically see everything I do while editing my images appear on your screen.
What kind of photos can I use with this action?
Raw files of forests, trees with a little bit of strong light (sky) in the background are best. Here are all the raw-files I used to create the examples shown above.
Note that there is pure white in the sky in each of these photos.
Winter, summer, spring or autumn. Beech, pine, oak or birch. All trees and seasons work for this preset. Just make sure there’s a bit of white sky in there.
FAQ
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Instructions are included in a PDF.
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All of them. Including phones.
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I can’t help you.
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Boost the Exposure after step 1. This will make sense if you read the included PDF.
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Sure! This is designed to emulate the look of one of my most popular photos, but its use isn’t limited to any photo. Go and experiment with it!
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Please read the PDF. Troubleshooting is included.
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Yes. This was tested 6 times on Photoshop 26.5. And will work on everything after that and probably on much before that version.
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No.
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Yes (the starting preset works in Lightroom’s Develop module, but you still need Photoshop. for the rest).
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Please read the manuals included in the download.
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2 PDF files
Action set
4 Presets to be used in conjunction with the actions.
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Everything that runs Photoshop works. Older, less powerful computers only take longer, but should work.