Saturday, January 23, 2010

Chipboard Maker Action

I cooked up this action a little while ago to make chipboard texture from scratch. It makes a 12x12" square of texture that you can clip to alphas or elements to give them a chipboard-ed look. Choose the color of the texture by setting your foreground color and play the action to generate the texture. Created in CS4, but should work in most versions.
You can also use this as a learning resource if you want - click the flyout button on your actions palette and go to Playback Options. There you can set the action to play back step by step, or have it pause for a number of seconds. You can click the arrow beside each step in the palette to expand the dialog and reveal the settings I used. Free for any use, no credit required. Have fun!

















This link has been fixed with a new version of the action that should work correctly. Thanks for pointing out the problem Jody!

Download from Mediafire Here
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16 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2010 at 12:41 PM

    Thank you so much for this Freebie. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 3 post on Jan. 23, 2010. Thanks again.

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  2. PamJanuary 23, 2010 at 12:55 PM

    thanks so much

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2010 at 1:51 PM

    Thank you! Your blog post will be advertised on the CraftCrave DigiFree search engine today (look for timestamp: [23 Jan 02:42pm GMT]).

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  4. Holly SJanuary 23, 2010 at 4:26 PM

    thank you very much! I can't wait to use these!!

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2010 at 9:36 PM

    Looks really nice. Thank you very much !

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  6. BlueCatJanuary 24, 2010 at 1:56 AM

    Thank you very much.

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  7. GreenfingersJanuary 24, 2010 at 10:42 AM

    Many thanks for sharing this

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  8. Lois BJanuary 27, 2010 at 9:03 AM

    I need some help. I click on the action and do as it says to pick the color then it continues and makes a new layer but stop at the "Fill" step and says "Could not complete the command because the selected area is empty"

    What am I doing wrong?

    Parker315@shaw.ca

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  9. YvetteJanuary 31, 2010 at 9:51 AM

    Thank you for sharing.

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  10. suruhaFebruary 10, 2010 at 10:45 AM

    How cool! And, how sweet of you to share it with us. I can't wait to go play with it. LOL

    Su

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  11. Tammy aka bunchieFebruary 10, 2010 at 12:38 PM

    tyvm for the great action and other!

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  12. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2010 at 1:05 PM

    Thank you very much!!!

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  13. DXFebruary 10, 2010 at 4:02 PM

    Oh snap, I'm loving this! Thanks so much :)

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  14. Lorena Digital DesignsFebruary 11, 2010 at 9:00 AM

    Thank you very much for this most useful action. (I love actions!)

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  15. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 9:12 AM

    Thanks for sharing!

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  16. MungoFebruary 13, 2010 at 2:16 PM

    Thanks very much for this action

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