Add-O-Matic

The world's first and only add-on installer for Windows versions of Photoshop Elements, and now Lightroom too! Quickly and easily get all your extra goodies into Elements with a drag, a drop and GO!

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Handy Actions

Your Swiss Army Knife for Photoshop Elements - over 70 of the most-requested tools from Photoshop

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Photo Lab

Photo Lab offers 39 ways to enhance your images, from crisp B&W to soft dreamy effects to desaturated and sepia toning. Check it out!

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Fun Foto FX

Over 30 ways to play - Fun Foto FX creates the best effects for your images!

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Glam Photo

56 effects (yes, 56!) are in this self-installing effects pack. With the Glam Photo FX Pack, you can create a huge variety of glamourous looks for your photos (and they work well on landscapes, too!)

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Splitter

16 ways to slice, dice & chop your photos, from simple splits to more complex chops and slices to torn in half or split three ways. Splitter helps you create interesting display options for you photos!

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Framer

Framer offers 24 ways to create frames, borders, outlines and vignettes around your photos

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Sketchy Paint

Graffi's Sketchy Paint offers 28 paint, crayon, pencil, sketch & watercolor effects for Photoshop Elements!

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Category Archives: Raves

Graffishop Facelift – new look & functionality & ACTIONS!

The facelift-slash-upgrade-slash-reinvention of the Graffishop has been a much larger undertaking than I thought it would be. But these things always are, aren’t they?

If you want a sneak peek, here’s a screen grab of the work-in-progress:

Graffishop151Scrn

Finally getting it integrated with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest & this here blog.

I’m also revamping the checkout & join up pages, and at long last – upgrading everything in there with a few new actions, some new graphics and a whole slew of new functionality.

Love to get me some feedback – anyone willing to toss in their two cents?

From my Twitter feed

@Graficalicus:

Finally a sunny weekend here in NC! Hope to get out and snap some shots. What about you?
#durham #photography


New Photoshop Adjustment Layers in Photoshop Elements 11

A fun secret about Photoshop Elements 11: some Photoshop Adjustment Layers can be used in Elements!

Specifically, Black and White, Color Balance, Exposure and Selective Color adjustments can be added with the actions downloadable below.  Note that these will only be available for limited time! They will be included in the updated Handy Actions set early in 2013. Add-O-Matic will be updated to allow for sharing and loading presets that these adjustment layers create. (AOM already supports Channel Mixer- .cha – and Curves – .acv – files, as well as Lightroom presets.)

The caveat to these actions is that the adjustments can only be made while the action opens the dialog; once it’s committed, you cannot go back and edit the settings without running the action again. Also, these additional adjustment layers will only work with Elements 11.

However, the layer mask the adjustment creates is editable – you can edit it to your heart’s content!


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These actions are going to be an integral part of the new line of actions from the Graffishop, starting with Hipster (look for it in January 2013)

The actions in the download above are easily added using Add-)-Matic, or you can manually load them in to Elements 11.

personally, I’d get an Add-O-Matic, though……  :)
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Add-O-Matic is now in its 7th edition, starting way back for Photoshop Elements 5, and is still the most popular Elements utility available! 

New for Add-O-Matic 11: it now will put all your Lightroom presets away for you, too!
You can grab an Add-O-Matic fast-n-easy by clicking the button below:

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Testing new Download Module – with a free HDR Action

How do you like this download format? This HDR effect is the most popular download on this blog, so I’m going to test this out and see if it works well (i.e., reliably) for everyone.

Check it out and send some feedback in the comments section – this won’t cost you a single penny (usually a $1 is requested!)

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Add-O-Matic is now in its 7th edition, starting way back for Photoshop Elements 5, and is still the most popular Elements utility available! 

New for Add-O-Matic 11: it now will put all your Lightroom presets away for you, too!
You can grab an Add-O-Matic fast-n-easy by clicking the button below:

By clicking the button below, I agree with the Terms & Conditions.
Buy Now 14.99 USD

Photoshop Elements 11 & Add-O-Matic

A few signs that Autumn is on the way:

  • the nights are getting cooler
  • the squirrels have stepped up acorn collection activities
  • football games on Fridays and Saturdays
  • the leaves are beginning to turn to yellow and orange
  • a new version of Photoshop Elements is out!

PSE11_screen

You probably noticed from the screenshot that there’s an entirely new interface, and a nifty Actions palette.

Many things have been rearranged and reorganized, so getting around this new version (at least for previous users of Photoshop Elements) may take a few exploratory trips through the various panels and menus.

And how about that nice light grey color scheme..!

 

So what does this mean for Add-O-Matic?

As I’m writing this, AOM is going through a few facelifts of its own.  Here’s what to look for in the new Add-O-Matic 11:

  • support for Elements versions 8, 9, 10 & 11
  • a new (but still familiar!) interface and ease of operation: AOM will now go to all installed versions of Elements instead of prompting you for a version!
  • support for all the usual Photoshop extensions, including actions, layer styles, custom shapes and plug-ins
  • Lightroom Preset support!  Now you can use AOM to add presets to Lightroom!

Look for it in in early October, and as always leave a few comments and feature requests – now is the time!

Actions for Elements: New Mac-Packs!

Finally!I’ve finally gotten around to creating manual-install action packs for all the Graffi Action Sets in the Graffishop!

Add-O-Matic is still a Windows-only utility, but all of the other Action packs now are available with two options:

  • You can get the regular Windows-only packs that come with their own installer
  • You can choose the manual install option (for Mac users, Photoshop users or Windows Elements users who want to install the actions themselves). The manual install option is available from the bottom of each product page beside the Add to Cart button:

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The auto-install option will add all actions, thumbnails & .xml files in the correct place within your Windows version of Elements.

The manual-install versions include actions, thumbnails & .xml files that can be manually placed or omitted within either Windows or Mac versions of Elements, and Photoshop users can get the actions and disregard the other Elements-required pieces.

Also, if you choose the manual-install option, it’ll knock $2 off the price!

Check them out and see what you think – !


Add-O-Matic for 2012

Happy 2012 everyone!

Thanks to all of you, I was able to make several donations to various local organizations in my area during 2011: time, materials & money! I also managed to keep the graficalicus.com sites online and keep the bill collectors happy – so a huge thanks to everyone!

Add-O-Matic is now in its 6th edition, starting way back for Photoshop Elements 5, and is still the most popular Elements utility out there!

If you don’t want to go through the Graffishop, you can grab an Add-O-Matic by clicking the button below – same price applies, but you won’t have an option for discounts or the mailing list in the future.

Cheers!


Add-O-Matic for Photoshop Elements 6 – 10

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Very Fast Add-O-Matic video

Here’s a very quick video showing Add-O-Matic at work.  I hope to get to creating a full-blown tutorial video about it soon, but for now, maybe this will answer a few questions!

One thing to remember – the folder I’m dragging my action, brush & style from in the video contains already unzipped items – they are not coming from a zipped archive folder.

BTW, no sound below – just a short vid!


Photo Lab Samples Image Gallery

PhotoLab Gallery  Check out the link below for samples of all of the image effects from Photo Lab for Elements.

All of the images were created with the actions in the pack using Elements 10 and photos were by me!  Love to get some feedback…!

Photo Lab Samples Image Gallery


Path for Plug-Ins using Add-O-Matic

Add-O-Matic for Elements running on Windows Vista or Win7 places Plug-Ins into a user-specific directory.  If you are adding Plug-ins (*.8bf files only) to Elements using the AOM, you must adjust your preferences file and turn on the additional Plug-Ins folder option.

To edit your preferences, from the top menu in Elements, click Edit>Preferences>Plug-Ins… and toggle ON the Additional Plug-Ins Folder option. Then enter the following path, substituting your drive letter and user name on your system:

[Drive letter]\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 10\Plug-Ins\Filters

It should look like this when you’re finished:

PreferencesPlug-ins

Click OK to save, then close and restart Elements. Your new *.8bf plug-ins will now appear in the Filter menu!

Hope you’re having fun with Elements 10 and the add-on extra goodies you’ve added with AOM!