Book description
This is a must for the serious Photoshop user! Power, Speed & Automation explores how to customize and automate Photoshop to increase your speed and productivity. With numerous step-by-step instructions, the authors-two of Adobe's own software developers!- walk you through the steps to best tailor Photoshop's interface to your personal workflow; write and apply Actions; and use batching and scripts to process large numbers of images quickly and automatically. You will learn how to build your own dialogs and panels to improve your production workflows in Photoshop, the secrets of changing keyboard shortcuts and menus, and ways to tune your system for optimal performance. Writing new processes using JavaScript is also covered, as well as leveraging Variables with data sets. Learn how to get more work done? more easily and quickly? with this essential guide!
*This book can be used with any version of Photoshop through CS6!*
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Customizing How You Work in Photoshop
- Chapter 2 Customizing How Photoshop Works for You
- Chapter 3 Optimizing Your System for Photoshop
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Chapter 4 Duplicating Your Tasks in Photoshop
- Introduction to Actions
- Creating Actions
- Playing Actions
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Editing Actions
- Changing the Settings of an Action Step
- Duplicating an Action
- Deleting Action Steps
- Adding Steps to an Action
- Reordering Action Steps
- Using Fit Image
- Adding More Steps
- Arranging Layers
- Selecting Layers Via Keyboard Shortcuts
- Inserting a Path Item
- Stroking a Path
- Using “Align Layers To Selection” to Intelligently Position Objects
- Refining Actions
- Learning More
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Chapter 5 Repeating Tasks on Many Files
- Batch Processing
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Troubleshooting Batch Processing
- Understanding the Suppress Color Profile Warnings
- Making a Conditional Mode Change
- Writing Errors to the Log File
- Using the Suppress File Open Options Dialog
- Adding a Save Action Step
- Converting Bit Depth
- Converting Color Profiles
- Adjusting the Fit Image Step
- Changing Image Resolution with Image Size
- Creating a Successful Batch Process
- Using Batch from Bridge
- Droplets for Batch Processing
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6 Repeating Tasks with External Data
- Chapter 7 Building Your Own Panels: Introduction to Using Configurator
- Chapter 8 Scripting Photoshop: Learning the Tools to Start Scripting Photoshop
- Chapter 9 Customizing Photoshop-Created Scripts: Beyond the Photoshop DOM with the ScriptingListener Plug-in
- Chapter 10 Controlling Documents: Learning to Work with Documents and Filenames
- Chapter 11 Adding Scripts to Your Panels: Advanced Configurator
- Chapter 12 Scripting Complex Workflows: Working with Events, Files, and Folders and Organizing Your Scripts
- Chapter 13 Building Custom Dialogs: Using Scripting to Build Your Dialogs
- Conclusion
- Appendices – Where Are the Files Located
- Index
Product information
- Title: Power, Speed & Automation with Adobe Photoshop
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2012
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136086212
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