Taking Action With Photoshop Actions
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Speedy workflow is one of the most obvious advantages of shooting digital, but even though you don’t have to mess with processing and printing, managing and correcting large numbers of digital images can still be a hassle. Fortunately, Photoshop can ease these chores with its handy Action facility. |
This article presents an introduction to Photoshop Actions, and provides you with the groundwork you need for a number of workflow automation articles that we’ll be posting in the future. Though Photoshop Actions are powerful in their own right, they become more useful once you start controlling them with your own custom AppleScript and JavaScripts. Though simple AppleScript graphics processing has been covered here, script-based image processing and management is a topic we’re going to explore in much more detail over the ensuing months.
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5 Comments on Taking Action With Photoshop Actions
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Vinnie Hart on
Mon, 28th Mar 2005 4:14 pm
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hannah millerick on
Mon, 17th Nov 2008 4:19 am
Photoshop actions have indeed been a huge time saver in speeding up workflow between capture and printing.
I have been using actions to make tifs from jpgs, for re-sizing, for resampling up, for final
unsharp masking, for adding copyright, for adding logos…..
Mr. Long I had a real problem with your second edition of Complete Digital Photograhy in
teaching my class for Digital Imageing because of the many typos.
I managed to make a list of them for the students so that I could use the book as a text for
three semesters, because I found your book to be the most ” Complete” indeed.
I’ll be using your 3rd edition in the Fall. I pray that the typo problems have been taken care
of,
[...] Download ACR Version Control in ZIP format. Related Links: Other photo-related Automator Actions Taking Action with Photoshop Actions Photoshop Action Pack 2.0 [...]
[...] If you’d like to know more about Automator, check out Apple’s Automator pages. For more information on using Automator with the Photoshop Action Pack, have a look at this article at CreativePro.com, and this Macworld Magazine feature. Related Links: Photoshop Automator Actions Other photo-related Automator Actions Taking Action with Photoshop Actions Adobe Illustrator Automator Action [...]
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Heeelp,
I have downloaded the Photoshop Action Pack but do not know how to import the photoshop actions into Automator?? I think I am behind missing something here, can u pls assist?
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