Mister Retro's Permanent Press

[El Negro Magnifico!]

I asked my fellow Twitter users if any of them ever used this: Mister Retro - Permanent Press Image Filter
I think I may invest some time in teaching myself how to do the same thing, but I kinda like what this does.

[RADAR]

do it yourself.

[El Negro Magnifico!]

That's the plan.

[lil_tuffy]

Some should alert Lakeside Illustration to this! It will his job even easier!

[crosshair]

First I was like, fuck that halfassed phony crap. But then I was like, that's kinda cool.

[Keith G. Herzik]

yipes! that will put at lot of us out of work, or give us more work...hmmm...

[ialieneye]

do it yourself.

Does this mean figure out how to make the art look like this with out using the filters, like manually in the computer or does it mean create a filter yourself. How would one go about creating a filter? Like can you take a technique you've worked out on a piece to cool effect and save it as a filter somehow then just apply it rather then going through how ever many steps it took to begin with?

[ben swift]

you can save it as an Action

[ialieneye]

you can save it as an Action

Really? can you explain how to do that? Or I guess I can just google it. I love this site. teaching myself these computer programs has left some definite holes in my technique and I feel like I've learned a ton in just a couple weeks. Awesome thanks

[kylewbaker]

^Basic process behind actions:

1. Open Actions window/control panel.
2. Click the 'Create new action' icon at the bottom of it (standard "new" icon), set hotkey etc. if desired.
3. Hit record.
4. Do stuff -- you know duplicate active layer, apply texture, reduce opacity, whatever. Just about anything you can "do" to/with an image in Pshop is recordable.
5. Hit stop.

Now you've automated those steps. Very useful for anything you repeat more than a few times.

I've used Mister Retro's Machine Wash filters. Definitely served their purpose but never bothered to install them in CS4 when I upgraded. Basically just a quick way to add texture/distress/ruffness with intuitive tweaks and a good collection of textures to cycle through.

Here's a great site for free textures, this dude's been doing this for a while now, no catch:
highresolutiontextures.com - free high resolution textures