Creating Actions for Automation in Photoshop
Get the most out of your Photoshop software. Did you know that there is a way that you can cut the time you spend performing actions in Photoshop? You probably are already trilled with your Photoshop software but there are ways to get more for the money you spent to get this precious gem of a software program. To improve productivity and save time and money, use automation in Photoshop. You can record actions in Photoshop and apply it to a single or multiple file. Resizing an image or bringing up the dialogue box or a basic command can be recorded.
Other more sophisticated tasks can complete multiple commands. When you first begin using actions, work with duplicate files. Choose> Show actions from the Action palette. If you are using Photoshop 6 you can use the Default on the actions palette. Choose Folder>Presets>Photoshop Actions and load it into the Actions Palette. Next select the Actions Palette and choose action pdf.
You can organize your actions by naming the set. The new set will automatically show up and al actions will be put in that set. Targeting and dragging an action to a new position in the palette will move the actions to the spot you want. Now that we know a little about actions, let’s start creating them. To make a simple action with a designated function key, open a multi-layered document. Click the fly out menu and choose New action. You can also click the New action icon at the base of the palette if you want an easier route.
Now you can name the Action in the New action dialogue box. The set option allows you to classify the set Photoshop applies the action to. The Function key command allows you to align a Function key to the action. The best way to take total advantage of actions is to use function keys with the keyboard. Pick the color-coding option to link actions and keys by color. Remember to click record to save your actions.
Photoshop keeps up with just about all of the commands you choose while you are recording. For example, if you are flattening an image, choose Layer>Flatten image and the Flatten image will be in the Action palette. When you are looking through the Action palette look for when you are looking through the Action palette look for what happened when the action occurred. For example, don’t look for “adding a new layerâ€, instead, look for “Make in the Action†palette. When you want to end recording, click the icon at the bottom of the palette. When you want to play the action open the layered file and choose play in the Action palette. You can also use the function key to play the action.
If you want to change the parameters of a command for single documents, then choose the command dialogue box in the Action palette. You can do this by either clicking in the empty well beside the command to display the dialogue box icon. Or you can choose the Insert Menu Item from the Action palette while recording the action choose the command from the menu. Play the action one more time to show the dialogue box and change the Image Size parameters in individual documents.
Once you have mastered creating and recording options, move on to creating more complex actions with multiple steps and various recording multiple commands. If you want to create an action that resizes, colorizes, adds a filter and saves a different format choose New action and begin recording. Then select Image>Image Size, Image>Adjust>Hue/Saturation, Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask, File>Save As and choose another file format. Then stop recording. Once you have mastered this technique you can move on to more complex applications.
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