Case study · Track record

A decade of Photoshop tools.

Under the brand BlackNull, I turned hard creative techniques into one-click tools and sold them to the world: 50,000+ copies, best-seller status on Envato Market, and tools Adobe picked up and distributed itself.

RoleAuthor, designer, and developer
Years2014 to present
Scale50,000+ sales on Envato Market
Built withJavaScript · ExtendScript · HTML/CSS · UXP · CEP
The work

Turn a hard technique into one click.

A great Photoshop effect can take an artist hours of manual layer work and a tutorial to follow. My products collapse that into a single action: the user runs the tool, and the technique applies itself, editable and non-destructive.

Doing that well is half design and half engineering. The visual result has to look hand-made, and the code underneath has to survive every Photoshop version, language, and document a stranger throws at it. I wrote both halves: the look and the plugin.

Signature products

The tools that defined the catalogue.

Realistic Embroidery result: gold and silver stitched emblem on fabric
Best-seller · 30,000+ sales

Realistic Embroidery

The flagship line, past 30,000 sales combined: the original Actions best-seller, then a coded plugin edition with a custom interface, rebuilt from legacy CEP to modern UXP. It turns any shape or text into convincing stitched embroidery.

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Animated Glitch 2 cover: glitch-distorted night street scene
A world first · Action

Animated Glitch

The first Photoshop action in the world to generate animated video effects, not just a still treatment. After it shipped, other authors built whole careers on the technique it introduced.

Concept Sketch cover: photo turned into an architectural pencil sketch
Action

Concept Sketch

Turns a photograph into a layered concept sketch in one run, with the underlying construction kept editable so the artist can take it further.

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Action Painter result: photo repainted as an expressive turquoise and orange portrait
Plugin

Action Painter

A coded JavaScript and ExtendScript plugin with a custom panel UI that repaints a photograph into a directed, art-style result, with controls the user can tune.

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Chukwa's Escape: underwater scene with a giant turtle and octopus
Recognition · 2017

Envato design contest winner

First place in the 2017 Envato design contest with "Chukwa's Escape," a personal piece made alongside the commercial catalogue.

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Coded, not just designed

Real software, not a folder of presets.

The plugins were coded products with custom interfaces, packaged to run for thousands of strangers on machines I would never see. That meant engineering for the long tail of edge cases, not just a clean demo file.

Languages

JavaScript and ExtendScript

Custom Photoshop panels and automation logic, with HTML and CSS for the plugin interfaces.

Two generations

CEP to UXP

Built across both Adobe extension platforms, and rebuilt the Realistic Embroidery plugin from legacy CEP to modern UXP.

Robustness

Cross-version packaging

Designed to survive different Photoshop versions, languages, and unpredictable user documents, with non-destructive output.

The Adobe collaboration

Adobe came calling, 2018 to 2021.

While I was selling on Envato, Adobe reached out and we worked together for three years. I made a set of free Photoshop actions that Adobe featured and distributed through Adobe Create and Adobe Discover, and Adobe ran an artist spotlight on me in 2018.

Watercolor Artist action set cover
Free, Adobe-distributed

Watercolor Artist

The one tool that survived Adobe's Discover restructure, still live on Adobe Learn today.

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Modern Artist result: vibrant pop-art portrait
Free, Adobe-distributed

Painterly · Toon · Modern Artist

A family of one-click art-style actions, each released free through Adobe's channels.

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Adobe logo
Interview

Adobe artist spotlight

Adobe interviewed me and published a feature under my name on the Adobe blog.

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Proof and recognition

By the numbers.

Envato Market
50,000+
software sales
Best-seller
30,000+
Realistic Embroidery sales
Recognition
#1
Envato design contest, 2017
Behance
606K
project views
Why it still matters

The same instinct, now pointed at AI.

A decade of shipping plugins to a global audience taught one durable skill: find the seam where a tool should exist, then design and code it well enough that strangers trust it with real work. As AI reshaped creative software, I pointed that same instinct straight at it. The craft did not change, only the tools, and the AI systems across the rest of this site are the result.

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