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Photoshop's Actions palette lets you record, save and load sets of tasks that can be performed on your images, such as resizing, adding borders, sharpening images, etc. Anything you can do in Photoshop can be recorded into an action and then later played back on an image, so you don't have to manually repeat (or remember!) the process.
Another great thing about actions is how portable they are. Generally speaking, you can record an action in any version of Photoshop and it will work in any other version of Photoshop! Actions are even cross-platform compatible, meaning that an action recorded on a PC will work on a Mac and vice versa!
Want to save some time so you???re not doing repetitive things in Adobe Photoshop? Look no further than the Actions palette. Let???s say you to need to adjust settings, add a filter, resize, or any of the other many options in Photoshop to a large number of photos. Instead of having to go through each photo one at a time, applying effects, resizing, or adjusting levels for example, it???s much easier to edit one photo and record the actions. Then, we can apply that action to an entire folder of images.
I have only scratched the surface of what can be achieved by using Photoshop actions creatively, for example; brush strokes could be used instead of photographs, as well as a lot more commands being included in each action. The possibilities for this technique are endless. After experimenting for a while, amazing effects can be created very easily. Have fun with it.
Actions save you time, yes, but you might notice when you create them that Photoshop gives you the option to designate a keyboard shortcut to run the Action. While this is a good thing, I actually prefer to use �Button Mode� for all of my actions. I do this because of 2 reasons. 1) I have so many hot keys set up that I wste too much time trying to come up with keyboard shortcuts that aren't set up for another task already, and 2) I don't have to remember all the exotic hotkeys for actions that I constantly edit and/or delete.
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Description Use this spiffy action to put your photos on TV! The action creates the television set which includes two different frames (metallic & wood), customizable TV name, power and control buttons, and a RGB pixel overlay. The pixel overlay is available in "standard def" or "high def" resolutions.
If you have looked at some of the other actions that we have done, like blood, slime and hatchet, then you knew I wasn't gonna be happy until I got to blow something up. Well, put your ear plugs in and watch out for flying debris, because here's The Explosion Action.
In this tutorial we propose a technique to transform a photo into a high detail colored pencils drawing. It is particularly useful for architectural illustrations or for still life images.
It sounds like the problem is Photoshop 7. Unfortunately I only have CS3 so I can't make an action compatible with the earlier version. Sorry about this! Consider making your eBook by hand, try it out: http://mintyferret.com/photoshop/ecover-ebook-3-d-box-tutorial/
The other day I was writing a roundup style post here on MIB that required a bunch of screenshots. I was capturing the shots, bringing them into Photoshop, then tediously editing each individual one. It didn't take me long to realized I was wasting a lot of time. A commodity which us designers never seem to have enough of. The simple solution was to create a Photoshop action to handle the dirty work of repetitive steps. PS actions are beautifully suited to save time for us lazy (I mean productive) designers. The result was so simple and easy, I wanted to share it here with you.
When I use "Save As" in one of my actions, it saves the file as the file number I used to create the action. How do I get the action to save each file as the actual file number, rather than the file number from the one I used to create the action?
Urban Acid Photoshop Action - Steven Almas This action recreates a cross-processing technique used in some glamour, fashion, and urban photography. Direct download here.
This is a small action based on the Page Curl Tutorial. The action simply creates a page curl in any of the four corners of an image. A drop shadow style to the action has been added, however the values used are for very large images so at the end of the action you may need to adjust the drop shadow style. One more thing is that when you run the action you may get a message saying �The object Background is not currently available� just hit continue. That happens because the first step of the action is to unlock the layer, however if the layer is not locked you get that message.
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Illustration Action - Dave Seeram This action turns a digital photo into artwork with an illustration effect created by a combination of filters in Photoshop.
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Black and White Photoshop Action - pjmorley.com Use Split Channels and Channel Mixer to create a dramatic black and white image.
Create Water Droplets in Photoshop - graphic-identity.blogspot.com This tutorial is very easy for Photoshop beginners, but there are other ways to create water droplets using Photoshop. The problem is sometimes the water droplets won't appear to be natural or realistic on the first attempt of applying some filter effect. Filter effects would likely produce uniform artificially looking water droplets on an object surface. Therefore, as usual...you need to retouch to finish this effect.
Turn your Images into Cracked Frescoes - panosfx.com The Cracked Wall Paintings is a set of Photoshop actions that reproduce the look of a cracked, painted wall facade.
The Photoshop tutorials in this website are written for artists who use photos as reference material to generate effects that resemble the characteristics of drawing, watercolor and oil painting. Commonly known as Photoshop Fine Art or Photoshop painting, the digital paint brushes, filters and other artistic tools in Photoshop can help painters create multiple studies in color, texture and design, to visualize in a few short steps what their pictures can ultimately accomplish.
In this tutorial, we?ll learn how to create a custom action and use Photoshop?s batch command to process a group of images to a certain size. This is a fairly simple tutorial, but does require some Photoshop knowledge. For this tutorial, we are going to create a group of thumbnail images for a website gallery. So we are going to convert all our images to small jpg?s. Here we go?. First off, we need to do a little prep work. And believe me, this prep work can save you a lot of problems in the long run. We need to decide how big our thumbnails are going to be. Also, we need to decide whether or not to resize them by height, or by width. I?ll explain at the end of the tutorial. Since we are making thumbnails, we are going to make them all 150 pixels wide. Before we go into Photoshop, we are going to create two different folders. For this tutorial, we?ll create the folders ?original? and ?thumbnails?. It doesn?t matter where they go, as long as you can remember where they are. Next, copy all the images you want to resize to the ?original? folder. Notice that I said COPY. It?s always better to work on copies of your images, rather than the originals. That way if something happens, you always have a backup copy of your original images. When you copy your images, I recommend you copy them all to the root directory in the ?original? folder, don?t use any subfolders. This you?ll ensure that you have no duplicate images, or images with the same filename. Let?s get into Photoshop. First we need to open an image. Any image will due for now. We are only going to use it to create our Actions. Now, let?s create a new action set. To do this, we click on the folder icon in the Actions panel. Let?s name this set ?Custom?. I like to keep my custom actions in their own set, so I can find them easier later on. Next we need to create a new action. Click the ?create new action? icon in the Actions panel. This is signified by the icon that looks like a piece of paper with a curled edge. Let?s name this Action ?Resize 150 W? because we are going to resize the image to 150 pixels wide. *Note: As soon as you create a new Action, your action starts recording, so go directly to the next step without doing anything else. To resize the image: Go to IMAGE --> RESIZE IMAGE. This will open the ?Image Size? dialog box. Now let?s change the width of our image to 150 pixels wide. Then click ?OK?. Now immediately after you click ?OK?. Go to FILE --> SAVE FOR WEB. Set your jpg parameters how yo...
Click: File -> Automate -> Batch... This prompt will appear and if you look how I have filled it out, I've told Photoshop to take the action I've made and named, "Tutorial Action" in the Default Actions folder, told the action to run on the folder I picked out, and told it to spit everything out into the folder I also selected. All you have to do then is click ok. By default it will keep the file names all similar.
Having covered the theory of the Quick Fix mode in the previous video, it's time to correct colour, brightness and focus of a real-world digital photograph. Almost all photographs taken on a digital camera require some degree of adjustment to make them look good, and quite simply put, the Quick Fix mode is going to be the fastest and easiest way to get the job done.
In order to create our own Droplet, we need to create our own Action, that is what we want Photoshop to do for us. And then we will turn this Action to a Droplet. So this tutorial will consist of these two parts:
Now all you have to do is record your action by pressing Play. When you have completed all of your actions (going through your process as you would normally) you can press the Red circle Stop button. You can take your time when recording an action; it only remembers specific commands, not how much time it took you between steps.
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In this tutorial we propose a technique to transform a photo into a high resolution clip-art style image, useful for technical illustrations or comic-like pictures. It works better with clear images, possibly with a uniform light background.
The result I got, is a quite realistic outer space, and every time I play the action I get a different image.
Tip: You can record an action that saves with a specified filename and folder. If you've done this, and have Override Action �Save As� Commands off, the same file will be overwritten each time. If you've recorded your Save As step in the action without specifying a filename, the droplet will save it to the same folder each time but will use the filename of the document being saved.
If you have tones of images to resize or you want to perform the same action the next day or so. It's tedious to repeat these steps. Photoshop Actions allows you to record the steps you perform and re-play with one click so you don't have to keep on doing the same thing again and again.
2. In the actions panel (next to the history panel if you have not changes any settings in photoshop), click create new action now you have to name your action.
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You might think that it would be easier to skip the 10% increases and just type in the total size in one go, but that wont work. It will come out all blurry. This is the only way to upsize your picture in Photoshop with minimal Quality loss.
As you can see, Photoshop comes with a load of actions you can play around with first. When the actions screen has appeared, you have another great option: you can drag the tab to the top right of the screen and it will automatically dock itself, so when you open Photoshop the next time, it will be there ready and waiting like an old, loyal dog.
2. Take Control Shots Another factor influencing action photography is the shutter speed of your camera. If your camera allows a very fast shutter speed (say up to 1/8000 of a second), you can easily capture fast motion. If it only supports a slower shutter speed (say 1/640 of a second), then you won't be able to capture such fast motion. One way to capture motion with a slow shutter speed is to use the panning technique. When you next shoot a fast action shot, try following through with the subject. Track the subject, shoot the picture, then continue moving the camera. If you practise long enough, you'll be able to get a sharp subject with a blurred background - which is a nice effect.
Personal photography has gone through a sort of mini evolution in the past 20 years as digital cameras have become popular. With the ability to take huge numbers of pictures, save them on computer, and share them over the internet, the cost of film and developing are no longer limiting factors. Although group photographs, portraits, celebrations, and vacations are still common images, personal photography now captures more impromptu and daily types of events. Photographs of fast moving action are more common as well as people are able to experiment to obtain the type of images they want without fear of "ruining" a shot that requires more skill to take. Capturing action can be challenging for a beginning photographer and requires quite a bit of practice to master. The following outlines a few pointers that can get the novice started off on the right foot. 1. When trying to obtain shots of action, the photographer can use one of two approaches: * Follow subjects with the camera as they wait for action to happen. * Focus the camera on a particular spot where action is anticipated and wait for it to happen. An example would be focusing on the basketball goal or 1st base. When using this method it is often best to observe through the Optical Viewfinder and keep both eyes open so that it is easy to anticipate shots as action approaches. 2. Reduce lag time and latency: * Shutter lag is the delay between the time the shutter button is pressed and the time when the camera actually takes the picture. During this lag time the camera is setting the exposure and focus. Shutter lag is particularly problematic when trying to capture action shots. One way of decreasing shutter lag is to press the shutter button halfway down, hold it, and then press the button down completely when ready to take the shot. This process allows the camera to perform some of the focusing function prior to taking the shot thereby reducing the shutter lag time. * Latency is the time it takes the digital camera to write/store images before the next shot can be taken. To reduce latency, a photographer should use flash cards with fast write times. In some instances, a lower resolution setting can be used for the shot so that the camera has less information to process and store, but this technique of reducing latency must be used carefully as image quality can be compromised. 3. Follow the action; this is known as "panning". Panning involves tracking the motion of the subject horizontally to capture ...
Of course the easy solution for this is to resize the images, but in practical terms that is impossible if you have tens or even hundreds of photographs. This tutorial will teach you how to use Photoshop Actions to resize a massive number of images in one go. An Action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files.
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First up are Photoshop actions. What's an action, you might ask? Simply put, it's a series of commands that are made and recorded. The complete list of commands between �record� and �stop� is your action. Photoshop comes with some default actions but what's most important is that you can create your own. This is what I'll be showing you in this Photoshop video tutorial.
[�] Automating Photoshop; Actions and Batching Explained If you work in Adobe Photoshop regularly, you???ll often find yourself engaged in repetitive loops that have a tendency to drain on your stamina and attention span. Today I???ll teach you how to use, and embrace the Action menu, a tool that will change the way you approach boring, monotonous tasks. Whether it???s mass resizing photos, embedding watermarks, adding filters, or perhaps something more or less complex, most of it can be automated. [�]
Create Water Droplets in Photoshop - graphic-identity.blogspot.com There are two actions in this single file, to let you create different size water droplets.
I've put together a Photoshop action that might help speed up the whole process. Laziness is usually why I'll opt for the RGB saturation method vs the LAB method, so this action should make the process less tedious. Just apply any touch-ups or adjustment layers to your original image like you normally would, select the top layer when you're ready to bump your saturation, and run the action. This action basically takes care of everything, but it gives you the ability to adjust the LAB curves half way through the execution. After getting the LAB curves adjusted (as outlined in step 4 below), you'll be presented with a �Duplicate Layer� dialog � You MUST select your original document from the second drop down menu for things to work correctly. Give it a try, and let me know if there are any problems with it. Also, before you run it, you might want to run through the steps below just to get a better idea of what it's doing.
Automator Actions: Photoshop Automator Actions v3.6 - Ben Long 87 Actions (86 in the CS2 version, and 85 for CS) that allow you to control a tremendous number of Photoshop's functions.
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Here it is another sketch action I made. This action offers a �double� sketch effect, just like if you painted the sketch twice, once from left to right, and once from right to left.
1. Find the Action palette, usually beside the History tab. 2. Click on the Create New Action icon. 3. You'll be asked for a shortcut key for the new action (I called the new action as Frame H, with shortcut key Shift + F2). 4. Then press the Record button when you're ready to save the steps, and press Stop if you're finished.
I show you how to make a simple retouch action adding emphasis and sharpening on one of my favorite photos this guys was an amazing model. Photo shot with a 5d at the Seattle istockalypse. Here' the link to the photo on istock
Few months back, I came to know that Photoshop CS2 (maybe even during CS1 time) is able to create an Automated Task. Some of you might be new to this, so let me giving you a brief idea on it.
Unlike a keyboard shortcut, which can only invoke a command, an action can open a command, apply changes to an image, step through another command, apply it, and even save a file in a particular way. You can create your own actions for steps that you do over and over, save the actions, and add them to the Actions palette.
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You can now go inn to the different actions and tweak them (like changing image size and such).
The first thing I need to do is go to the Window menu. Then I’ll select Actions:
A regular Photoshop already comes with a lot of actions and I am going to use some of them to show you how it works and by the end of the post I will link some good actions for download.
Let's do something a little more complicated with our first attempt at a Photoshop Action. I've recently posted a downloadable action which allows you to automatically apply reflections to small photographs. Here is a tutorial on how I created that action � feel free of course to modify any part to suit your needs.
Next, let's take a look at the action itself. Refer back to the first image in this tutorial. Notice on the left side of your action there are two columns? The first column contains a series of checkmarks, and the second contains tiny dialog boxes. Let's explain those here:
