Wouldn’t it be great if you could make Photoshop do all the grunt work for you? Just think how much time you’d save if you could convert every image in a layout from RGB to CMYK all at once rather than one by one. Well, guess what—you can! By applying Photoshop’s recorded actions and automate commands, you can breeze through the grunt work quickly—and that’s what production is all about: spending less time doing repetitive tasks and more time playing Halo…um, I mean designing layouts.
- Record and Apply Actions An action is a recorded sequence of events that takes place in Photoshop. Whenever you play an action, all the recorded events are reenacted in order.
- The first thing to keep in mind when recording actions is that the task you’re attempting to automate must be entirely methodical. To make the most out of actions in a print design/production workflow, it’s best to keep them as simple and generic as possible. It helps to do a test run first. For more-involved actions, I suggest mapping out your steps on a piece of paper before recording.
- Batch-Process an Action One of the most powerful ways to automate Photoshop is to apply the Batch command. Doing so allows you to run an action on a group of images all at once.
- To access the Batch dialog box from Photoshop, choose File --> Automate --> Batch. From the Set pop-up list at the top of the dialog box, choose which action set (of the currently loaded sets in the Actions palette) that you’d like to select an action from. Then from the Action list, choose the action you’d like to apply to the images.
- Automatically Crop and Straighten Photos Crop And Straighten Photos is another great Photoshop feature that you can use to perform one of the most mind-numbing production tasks.
- Gang-scan a group of photos over a solid-color background into Photoshop (place multiple photos on a flatbed scanner and scan them all at once). Make sure to leave at least 1/8˝ of space between them.
- Create a Contact Sheet The Contact Sheet II command automatically generates a thumbnail preview document. This feature can be helpful when trying to decide which images to use in a print layout.
- To access the Contact Sheet II dialog box, choose File --> Automate --> Contact Sheet II.
- Record and Apply Actions An action is a recorded sequence of events that takes place in Photoshop. Whenever you play an action, all the recorded events are reenacted in order.
- The first thing to keep in mind when recording actions is that the task you’re attempting to automate must be entirely methodical. To make the most out of actions in a print design/production workflow, it’s best to keep them as simple and generic as possible. It helps to do a test run first. For more-involved actions, I suggest mapping out your steps on a piece of paper before recording.
- Batch-Process an Action One of the most powerful ways to automate Photoshop is to apply the Batch command. Doing so allows you to run an action on a group of images all at once.
- To access the Batch dialog box from Photoshop, choose File --> Automate --> Batch. From the Set pop-up list at the top of the dialog box, choose which action set (of the currently loaded sets in the Actions palette) that you’d like to select an action from. Then from the Action list, choose the action you’d like to apply to the images.
- Automatically Crop and Straighten Photos Crop And Straighten Photos is another great Photoshop feature that you can use to perform one of the most mind-numbing production tasks.
- Gang-scan a group of photos over a solid-color background into Photoshop (place multiple photos on a flatbed scanner and scan them all at once). Make sure to leave at least 1/8˝ of space between them.
- Create a Contact Sheet The Contact Sheet II command automatically generates a thumbnail preview document. This feature can be helpful when trying to decide which images to use in a print layout.
- To access the Contact Sheet II dialog box, choose File --> Automate --> Contact Sheet II.
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