Stippling Photoshop Action

Add a cool stippling effect to your photos and impress your fam!

How To Install The Action:

• Inside Photoshop, go to the ‘Window’ menu and select ‘Actions’. A window will now appear on the right-hand side.
• Inside the Actions window, click on the top right-hand corner icon to reveal the drop-down menu. From here select ‘Load Actions…’. Select the action which came with the download.
• The action will now appear in the actions panel.

How To Use The Action:

• Open a photo to work with
• Leave the photo layer locked and set as the ‘Background’. To set your photo as the Background, select your photo layer and go to the menu ‘Layer’ — ‘New’ — ‘Layer from Background..’. Please refer to the video tutorial if you need more help here.
• Create a new layer above the background layer called ‘effect area‘. MUST be all lowercase.
• With the ‘brush’ layer selected, brush onto the areas of your photo that you want to apply the effect to.
• Play button found at the bottom of the action panel or play :).

Things To Check and Remember:

• Your photo is in RGB color mode
• Your photo is in 8bit color mode
• This action has been tested and works on Photoshop CS4, CS5, CS6, CC to CC2019 (tested in the English version)
• You are running the English version of Photoshop.
• If you are experiencing errors, try resetting your Photoshop preferences. To do this, hold down Alt, Ctrl, and Shift keys (Mac: Command, Option, Shift) while starting up Photoshop.
• A dialog box will appear asking if you wish to delete the preferences/settings file.
• Avoid using small resolution images. For the best results, use Photos between 1500px – 3000px high/wide. Chances of the action running into errors will increase the lower you go under 1000px high/wide. Photos with good color variation and contrast will work best.
• Avoid brushing onto mainly black areas on a photo. The effect is not very prominent when applied to mostly dark areas of a photo.
• Remember that adjusting your photo resolution will determine how wide the parts spread out.
• If you run the action at 72DPI, then the parts will be quite close – if you run it at 300DPI, the parts will be spread much wider. Please refer to the video tutorial for a demonstration of this.

Please reach out to us in case of any queries.