Searching for an old photoshop action called "effie"

[Jay29422733h5j9]

This would have been about 10 years ago. It was created by a gentleman from New Zealand, I believe. But he has sence disapeared. Does anyone have any thoughts or leads for me?

[Jeff Arola]

The orginal page now seems defunct, but there are saved snapshots from various years on web.archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20070823184705/http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~mikefinn/action.html

[Jay29422733h5j9]

Hello,

Thanks for your efforts. I suppose all I can hope for is someone who has Mike Finn's "effie basic" photoshop action woul drop me a note and we can work something out.

Jay

[Jeff Arola]

You can download the "effie basic" under where it says More Free Actions

[Stephen Marsh]

Indeed Jeff, the links still work for now!

https://web.archive.org/web/20070823184705/http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~mikefinn/files/Effie_Ba...

https://web.archive.org/web/20070823184705/http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~mikefinn/files/Effie-1....

[Missbee]

You likely can find a satisfactory substitute at GraphicRiver. And there is much instruction around how to use the new generative fill to create painting effects. It seems to do watercolor the best. You have to experiment with the degree of fill.

Good luck.

[Missbee]

I downloaded and tried many of the freebies. They all worked in Photoshop 2024, save Matisse, because I didn't want to bother downloading the needed zip opener.  I found the Insta-Paint particularly charming. I also kept the Portrait tools.

[mark tc94605351]

I have a copy if you're still interested.

[Trevor.Dennis]

I have a copy if you're still interested.

By @mark tc94605351

Mark, does it work with current versions?  I was wondering if it dated back to Flash (pre HTML5).  

What does it do?

[mark tc94605351]

I found it in an archive that has several Photoshop Actions.  I have
never used that particular action, so I cannot tell you anything about it.

The one I have used the most is pOpArTiSt, which does interesting
stylistic transformative effects to an image or selection.

[Missbee]

It should still work. Amazing how the old ones endure. Mike Finn, incidentally,  responded a few months ago to my email thanking him. The actions now are a long-ago chapter for him. 

[Trevor.Dennis]

I have several Flaming Pear plugins that have to be super old now.  The UIs are too small for anything more than a 1080 screen res, and are kind of clunky.  Flood 2 is still very usable though.  Fractalius used to be a star in its day, but is slow and its effects have been superceded but later HTML5 plugins from people like Topaz, and even the native Oil Paint filter.  What would be _really_ nice to have a modern version of would be the various Kai Power Tools versions.  They must have been years (decades) ahead of their time, and I can't think why no one has recoded them.  It was KPT that came to mind when reading your post because author Kai Krause has parallels with Mike Finn, and having done it once, didn't feel like doing it again.  There is also Lucis Art which was always a mystery to me.  It used to cost something like $400 to $500 years and years ago when that was serious money, and it's effects were always questionable.