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By: Private Palpatine
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| Sunday, 21-Jan-2007 06:55 |
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Lesson 17: Adding Automation Using Actions - Part 1: Create
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| Quote: | | Have you ever felt like there just aren't enough hours in the day to get all of your work done? Think of all the small, repetitive tasks that you do every day in Photoshop. Sure, some of them may require that you pick specific settings to make the image look right, but I'll bet that if you look at your Photoshop workflow you'll find many tasks that don't require your interaction. That's where actions come in. Actions are tiny little macros that record the changes and adjustments that you do in Photoshop. |
Step 1: In Photoshop, open an image. For this tutorial, we're going to create an action that not only writes caption to a photo but will do that to other photos for you, as well. If you don't already see the Actions palette, open it by choosing Window>Actions
The Actions Palette
Step 2: Now, click the Create New Set icon at the bottom of the palette to create the folder for the action. The New Set dialog will appear. Here's where you can enter a descriptive name for your folder. For this example, call this folder My Action.
Step 3: Then, click the Create New Action icon at the bottom of the palette to begin creating a new action. The New Action dialog will appear. Here's where you can enter a descriptive name for your action. For this example, call this action Caption: My Dream Holiday.
Step 4: Choose which set you'd like to add this action to from the Set pop-up menu. A set is like a folder for actions, it helps keep them organized. You can just put this one into the My Action set that we have created before.
Step 5: Next, you can choose a function key to assign as a shortcut for your action. This will allow you to just press a single key to run your action, instead of always opening the Actions palette. Choose F12 from the Function Key pop-up menu for this action. Leave the Color setting to None, and click Record to start recording your action.
Step 6: You're now ready to start actually recording steps in the action. For this tutorial, type the caption: My Dream Holiday onto the image.
This is the example that i used. You can ignore this step by completing your editing work, before proceed to Step 7.
Step 7: Then, press the Stop Recording icon (it's the little square icon on the bottom left of the action palette) to stop recording the action.
Step 8: You can now open another photo and press F12 to run the action on it (remember, that was the shortcut key we assigned back in Step 5). Your photo will automatically get captioned using the same settings and you won't have to lift a finger (well, you'll only have to lift one finger).
If you do not want to use shortcut F12, use the Play button, bottom 3rd from left of the action palette
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