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Posts Tagged ‘Totally Rad Actions’
Totally Rad! Dirty Pictures Sneak Peek
Since we’re getting close to having all the gremlins ironed out, I thought it would be a nice time to post a little update on just what the hell I’ve been up to for the past couple months…
New TRA Recipes Site
The best thing to happen to the Totally Rad Actions in nearly a year just went online at www.trarecipes.com. We’ve showcased over 160 awesome ways to use the Totally Rad Actions (and counting!) with before and after examples, step-by-step recipes and instructions. Browse recipes by the actions used, by genre, or by the action set [...]
TRA Recipe Contest Winners
First of all, a huge thank you to everyone who entered our TRA Recipe Contest this past March! We received way more entries than I thought we would, and to the extent that it’s taken a while to pick winners, that’s my excuse (well, that and a 2 month old baby boy and a hacked [...]
Infa-Red Without All The Hassle
The latest in our blitz of new video tutorials features two actions from TRA2 – The Revenge that do a damned good job of emulating infa-red film… which is a good thing, since they don’t make Kodak HIE anymore, and the images from digital body conversions still require plenty of tweaking in post anyway. So [...]
Fake Front Swings And Tilts With f/zero
So here’s another video tutorial I’ve been busy working on, this time on the very confusing f/zero family of actions from TRA2 – The Revenge. f/zero was so named for two reasons – one, it’s meant to give you a set of tools to isolate your subject using selective focus… if f/1.2 makes everything but [...]
3 Actions That Are Meant For Each Other – No Brain Required!
Just finished a really quick little video on using “Orange You Glad You Didn’t Say Banana”, “Greetings From Paradise”, and “Wish You Were Here” from TRA2. Now that I figured out how to workaround the weird artifacts that Compressor was producing on the left side of the video, I’ll be finishing up with the other [...]
Having issues with the TRAs? Try The Totally Rad Forum!
There’s yet another great new resource for getting the most out of the Totally Rad Actions (well, it’s a small one right now, but it’s a start). Go to www.gettotallyrad.com/forum for a whole slew of troubleshooting tips, quoted from emails I’ve answered in the past. I don’t have any plans for making this an active [...]