Smart Actions Panel

Smart FX is a HTML panel for Adobe Photoshop. It lets you create artistic paintings from your photos. It uses Photoshop scripting capabilities to go beyond the standart Photoshop filters and produces outstanding results. The panel contains three painting effects.

How to Install

Smart FX has an installation script and you can easily install the extension by simply running that script inside Photoshop. 

• Expand the "DesignRocket - Smart-FX.zip" to your desktop.  
• Start Photosop.
• Run Install Script. Go to File > Scripts > Browse and select the "Install DRsmARTFX.jsxbin" file. This will install Smart FX.

Installing Smart FX: Go to File > Scripts > Browse and select the "Install DRsmARTFX.jsxbin" file. This will install Smart FX.

How to Use

To run Smart FX, go to Extensions menu and select Smart FX. Open an image to work on. Then select the desired effect to set related parameters and click the Apply This Effect button.

Starting Smart FX: Go to Window menu, select Extensions and click on Smart FX

Select Your Effect: First you need to open an image to work on, then you can select one of the three effects in the panel.

FX-1 Artistic Painter 1

FX-1 Artistic Painter 1: Turns your photo into an artistic painting.

PreAdjust Contrast: This option applies a tone adjustment similar to Shadows/Highlights prior to actual effect. Useful when image has dark areas where detail is lost.

Scale For Best Result: This option will scale the final image to get the optimum look. It doesn't mean you will get the best result with this option checked for every image. You can try both versions and pick the best look.

Variations: This effect produces four variations.

You will see all four variations in the layers Panel. You can also blend them in different Layer Modes and opacities to get different results.