August 2014
Beginner
989 pages
34h 23m
English
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Chapter 18. Working Smarter with Actions
It’s fun to spend hours playing and working in Photoshop, but once you’ve used the program for a while, you’ll likely notice that you repeat the same steps over and over on most of your images. At first, the repetition probably won’t bother you—it’s actually good while you’re learning—but when a deadline approaches and the boss is eyeing you impatiently, you need a way to speed things up. It would also be great to automate tasks that you don’t enjoy doing yourself.
Luckily, Photoshop includes all manner of automated helpers (some of which you’ve already learned about), including:
The Image Processor script, which resizes images and converts them to different file formats (Automated Resizing with the Image Processor).
The Contact Sheet II script (Contact Sheet II).
Automated photo stitching with Photomerge (Auto-Aligning Layers and Photomerge).
The Lens Correction filter (Camera Raw Filter), which fixes distortion problems caused by your camera’s lens and/or sensor.
Automated layer aligning and blending with the Auto-Align and Auto-Blend Layers commands (covered starting on Auto-Aligning Layers and Photomerge).
Some of the best timesavers of all, however, are actions. An action is an all-purpose, amazingly customizable method for automating repetitive or complex tasks like adding or duplicating layers, running filters with specific settings, and so on. You can use actions to record nearly every keystroke and menu choice you make, and then play them ...
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