Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4- P11

Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4- P11: Learning Adobe Photoshop is essential to success in digital media industries.Photoshop is a gateway into several related technologies. From digital image acquisitionand processing to typography and compositing, Photoshop is often your fi rstintroduction. If you can master this program, you can go on to success with severalother technologies. With this in mind, it is important to learn Photoshop with oneeye on the present and the other on the future.
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Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4- P11288 Chapter 15 Actions and Automation 7. On the topmost layer, make a Levels adjust- ment by pressing Command/Ctrl+L. Bring the black and white Input sliders toward the center. Move the gray slider until the mid- tones are brighter. 8. Change the blend mode of the top layer to Screen mode. 9. Press Option/Alt+[ to select the previous layer. 10. Press Command+Option+F/Ctrl+Alt+F to run the Zoom fi lter again with options. 11. Set the amount to 30 and click OK. 12. To achieve the look you need to fade the filter, choose Edit > Fade Radial Blur. Lower the Opacity of the effect to 30% and click OK. 13. In the Actions panel, click Stop. Experiment and create your own looks. Virtually every menu command or button can be recorded. Actions can be duplicated, modified, and deleted. Be sure to explore all the options in the Actions panel submenu. Be sure to dissect actions made by others to get ideas of what is possible. With a little practice and imagination you’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish. If you want to check out the ac- tions you just created, compare them to a set I’ve saved in the Chapter 15 folder. Automate Commands 289Saving Actions TIPActions are stored in a temporary cache. If you delete the set, load Sharing Actionsa replacement, or experience an application crash, your new ac- If you create useful actions, youtions could be overwritten. Therefore, it’s important to save your can post them to the Adobe Studioactions so they can be backed up and reloaded in the future. Exchange community to share with other users (www.adobe.com/1. Click an action set. You can use the one created in the previ- exchange). ous exercise. You must click the whole set, not just an action in that set.2. Go to the Actions panel submenu and choose Save Actions.3. The Photoshop Actions folder (inside the Presets folder) will be chosen by default. If it isn’t, manually locate it in your Presets folder.4. If you add to the set later, just be sure to resave it to the same location with the same name.Automate CommandsPhotoshop offers several commands for speedingup professional imaging workflow. You’ll exploreeach option available as of this writing. If you areworking with an older version of Photoshop, youmight not have some of these automation tools.Each is a significant time-saver, and you shouldattempt to integrate them into your workflow asoften as is feasible. TIPBatch Batch JamsIf you liked actions, you’ll love the Batch command. The Batch A batch process can get stuck oncommand allows you to apply an action to a group of images. This file closings, especially with JPEGis a huge time-saver, especially for mundane tasks like resizing. or TIFF compression, which asksYou can also use it to batch process an entire roll of images and for user interaction. You’ll want torun the same Levels adjustment on each image. Let’s give it a try. either batch convert the files ahead of time to another format (like PSD)Let’s start by making the action “batchable.” or record the close-and-save step as1. Open a TIFF image from the Batch folder. part of the action. Be sure to select the Override Action “Save As” Com-2. Choose File > Save As and save a copy to the desktop. This is mands option. This will ensure that a temporary copy to prep the action and can be thrown away your files are saved in the folder when you’re done. specified by the Batch command.290 Chapter 15 Actions and Automation TIPS FOR CREATING BETTER ACTIONS • Brush ...