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The interface for this textures plug-in is, in fact, totally rad.
Photoshop Actions can be addictive things but I've always found sorting though them to be a confusing experience. About a year ago, I reviewed Kevin Kubota's DASHBOARD interface which is designed to get a handle on his voluminous assortment of Actions and thought it was a step in the right direction. Though it's a completely different product from DASHBOARD, Totally Rad's new Dirty Pictures plug-in for Photoshop offers another well designed visual interface to help you add textures to your images.
Dirty Pictures, which was created by Totally Rad's Action man Doug Boutwell, is actually so unlike any Action I've used that I hesitate to even call it an Action. In fact, it doesn't reside in the Action palette in Photoshop after you install it; it's in the filter...