Polaroid GENERATOR V2 by rawimage

DOWNLOAD THE ALL NEW POLAROID GENERATOR 3

EDIT 11/10/11: Minor Bugfixes

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You like it virtual, you like it fake, you like it cheap, you can't afford real film, you don't accept those incredibly high prices for expired film, you just bought a Polaroid camera at ebay and realised afterwards, there's actually no more film available, you are about 17 years old and on that 80's retro trip, you have a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS or higher on your fancy laptop and want to max it out?
Then you really should try this out!

HOW TO:
Download the ZIP, extract the ATN file that's inside to a directory of your choice, open Photoshop, load the action, choose an action, press play, wait, behold!

Wait a second - actions, photoshop, what's this all about?! READ THIS ARTICLE

Wait another second - you are too lazy to read?! Watch this cool video tutorial by !TheGreatGeekyMe on his blog DANCINGPANCAKES.COM

Is anyone out there who knows how to write scripts for PS? I'd like to add more comfort and features that can hardly done with a fully automatic action.

PLZ SUBMIT YOUR POLA TO:

Changes & approvements between V1.1 and V2:

only one action for wide and high format photos. Doesn't work properly with cropped formats like 1000x3000px though.

decreased runtime by deleting a lot of steps that were unneccessary

added the film type 600 b/w Example

added four Emulsion Void actions Example

improved the look of all types

reduced value of grain/noise

grain is additive and subtractive now (original contrast is maintained)

removed all stops caused by confirmations on several points in the script

implemented the finisher effects streaks and bevel to the main actions

added snapshots at some points in the script that allow you to roll back to previous states of the script.

The frame looks a bit more realistic imho. It has a light dirt texture and a thin void.

The different aspect ratios of Type Zero and 600 are now given

SOME WONDERFUL SAMPLES

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FIND MORE AT THE POLAGEN GALLERY

DubaiBunniesUAE Featured By Owner Jun 1, 2017

Amazing artwork!

spywarelan Featured By Owner Sep 5, 2016

Your work may attract all the deviantart people..You did a good job and you are professional.

rawimage Featured By Owner Sep 5, 2016 Hobbyist Photographer

Thanks.

mcdj Featured By Owner Jan 18, 2016

The effects are decent, but the fact that the actions resize the image immediately renders it useless for a professional workflow. A working photographer/retoucher/designer will never adopt an action that sizes an image down.

miltroneous Featured By Owner Edited Jan 26, 2016

Hey mcdj, I don't think you fully understand what you're talking about. This is a FREE* action, so if you want an action that is rendered useful for a pro workflow, you can pay to have it developed to your specs, or do it yourself. Professionals don't whine about FREE* software that doesn't function to their exact needs.

Anyway, this is a fantastic action, which clearly took a ton of time, thanks for sharing it rawimage!

*edit: but you should donate to the developer if you find it useful!

rawimage Featured By Owner Jan 20, 2016 Hobbyist Photographer

Some of the steps in the action make it necessary to resize the image to a specific size. Operations like creating masks need absolute dimensions to work.
Please keep in mind that a real Polaroid print has a rather limited resolution/quality. So, if you would scan a Polaroid print you wouldn't get a super crisp result either.
Nevertheless you can try to disable the step No 3 and 4 to avoid image resizing, but the part were the frame is generated won't work properly anymore. Also all the additional Effect-Actions won't work anymore ...

DGAT Featured By Owner Sep 17, 2014

thnx for sharing

mathudizplay74 Featured By Owner Feb 28, 2014 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thank youu for this! <3

C-O-N-E-C-O Featured By Owner Jul 22, 2013

Downloaded very cool

fawkesdesign Featured By Owner Jun 26, 2013

xxooxxoo

2Loose2Trek Featured By Owner May 2, 2013

I love the intro ... now I'm off to try it. Thanks!

NiCkNiTrO90 Featured By Owner Mar 20, 2013

Thanks

BordeauxBerry Featured By Owner Mar 17, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

This bombed me completly away!! I want to cry now..it's so wonderful, it looks so real..amazing..I nearly cry nox..

rawimage Featured By Owner Mar 18, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

you made my day!

bygatonegro Featured By Owner Feb 8, 2013

Thanks!

Daycacovilli Featured By Owner Jan 19, 2013

That's amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing

BeMyGoth Featured By Owner Jan 14, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

cool!

Thank you.

d0ramYrk Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013

THX! Good!

sbrazle Featured By Owner Sep 25, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Is there any way I would be able to stop the crop from my photos with these actions? Absolutely in love with with the filters & I would like to use without changing my photos to polaroids.

Thanks!

rawimage Featured By Owner Sep 26, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Unfold the desired action and look for a step called work space or working area (I'm not sure how's it called in english). Uncheck it. Run the action and stop after the first pop-up message before the frame is rendered. You can also uncheck the first step called Image Size, but this has an effect on noise and Gaussian Blur.

aricarbo Featured By Owner Aug 7, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

thanks!!!!

ElsharQawy Featured By Owner Jul 30, 2012 Hobbyist Interface Designer

thx for sharing Bro.

daxusx Featured By Owner Jul 21, 2012

this is so nice thanks for sharing!!

angelasibo Featured By Owner Jul 19, 2012 Student Interface Designer

thankyou very muchoooo

dontbemad Featured By Owner Jul 16, 2012 Student Interface Designer

awesome! thank you!

appelt65 Featured By Owner Apr 27, 2012

OUTSTANDING!!!

AllIniquity Featured By Owner Mar 27, 2012

I always get the error "The Command "Bild einpassen" Is currently not Available". =\ Have tried all the diff versions.

marcmetzger Featured By Owner Mar 26, 2012 Professional General Artist

Spectacular JOB's, thanks a lot...

xmissa7xx Featured By Owner Mar 6, 2012

I used this here : [link] Thank you !

EirikHenden6 Featured By Owner Mar 3, 2012 Student Digital Artist

Thank you very much!

MonotoneMinimal Featured By Owner Feb 24, 2012

Hey, i´am not 17 years old and on the retro trip. I am still using Commodore 64, Vic20.... and Polaroid Generator 2.

THX for sharing

anotherdeviation Featured By Owner Feb 6, 2012

thanks for your generosity! can't wait to try it.

wachtick Featured By Owner Dec 30, 2011

i looooooove it!

Lindalees Featured By Owner Dec 22, 2011

This is a really terrific action! I've used it here [link]
Thanks very much for all your work in creating this and for sharing it

rawimage Featured By Owner Dec 23, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

Great. Thanks!

steveyeu Featured By Owner Dec 18, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Used this to aid in creating: [link]

SnikkiFakeSmiles Featured By Owner Nov 22, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

you are amazing

Vitasha Featured By Owner Nov 13, 2011

thanks sooo much!

koffee12 Featured By Owner Nov 9, 2011

Dude... Amazing!

psychedelicIOUS Featured By Owner Nov 3, 2011

For some reason it stops at the 'Fill' part for me (stopping at the blank layer with the title 'gradient'), telling me that it can't continue "because the selected area is empty." Any idea what's up with that? I'm using CS4 Extended. I reeeaally would like this action to work. Any help would be much appreciated.

rawimage Featured By Owner Nov 4, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

Did you stopped the action and started it again with another active layer. Which action was it anyhow?

psychedelicIOUS Featured By Owner Nov 4, 2011

I...think it works now? I don't wanna jinx it! Seriously though, I think it has something to do with the resolution of the photo, which has to be 72 or thereabouts. The one I used before had something like 300dpi and the action stalled at that part I mentioned and didn't work, but when I changed it to 72, it did. Dunno why. Hopefully, that's all there is to it. If the error happens again, I'll get back to you. Thanks for the response!

rawimage Featured By Owner Nov 9, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

was it a very wide format e.g. like 1000x4000px by chance? One of the first steps is a reduction (or increase) to a fixed dimension and resolution, therefore I don't think it happend because of the ppi...