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Using Photoshop Actions ? Part 1

Let Photoshop do your daunting tasks for you while you are having your coffee. Actions enable you to automate just about any task, so you spend more of your work time actually creating. This Photoshop Tutorial shows you how.

OK. Have you ever done the same task repeatedly in Photoshop? Let us presume that you wanted to scan and create a PDF from the crossword every day. To scan it, you would follow the similar steps every day in the same order without fail. Soon, you might ask yourself, “Hey, here this computer should be able to automate this set of tasks for me somehow.”

Well, with Photoshop you can do just that with Actions. You will sail in troubled waters if you use Photoshop for any production-oriented task without using them. In addition, you are being a dummy.

Photoshop Actions allow designers and photographers to edit photos quickly in a specific way. The right action can save time as opposed to doing all of the work manually. Photoshop Action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files menu commands, palette options, tool actions, and so on. Sometimes, editing pictures could eat up hours especially if you are a beginner in photoshop. From this, we can conclude that an Action is a series of Commands in Photoshop to which you apply a name. Afterward, you can play that recording back on a different file and have Photoshop do your work for you like:

Capturing repetitive tasks that need to be applied to a series of files.
Walking a person through a technique in a systematic fashion.

The First Step

Working with Actions starts at the Actions palette. The first thing is creating a new Action, simply click the Create new action button at the bottom of the palette.

Making a Set

All Actions need to live in a set—even if that set contains only the one Action. If you don’t create your own, Photoshop will create one called Set 1 (or 2 or 3…).

For creating a set:

1.     Select the Create a New Set button on the Actions palette.

2.     Give the set a brief, award-winning name such as Oracle or Optimum. Try something that helps you in understanding what the Actions in it are likely to do.

Creating a New Action

For creating and starting recording a new Action, Click the New Action button. The New Action dialog box flashes to let you name it. In the New Action dialog box, you also do the following:

Assign it to a particular set.
Define a function key, which allows you to apply the Action with the push of a button.
Apply a color, which will be visible when using Button mode.

Record an Action

After clicking Record to create a new Action, Photoshop starts to record, the steps you take. So, just start doing stuff, and it will be recorded. Do not worry about making a mistake as you can fix the Action later.

To complete the recording, click the Stop button at the bottom of the Actions palette.

Testing the Action

After creating an Action, look it over. Some things to notice about the Action include the following:

It lives in a Set.

It has at least one Command listed under its name. Each step you took after creating the action is listed here.
Each Command has settings associated with it. You’ll need to click the little triangle next to the Command to see them.
Each Command has a checkmark next to it (to the left), and some have a little square. Never mind about these. We’ll get back to them later.

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Question by R: What Is a website with clip art of a boy doing different actions?
What Is a website with clip art of a boy doing different actions? (has to be the same boy in all actions)

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Adobe Photoshop is extremely popular for editing images and applying really cool effects. The best thing about it is that the editing does not require brute force. Beginners could really be good with the basic image editing skills after just a few uses. However, beginners do not know that Photoshop has a lot more to it than just editing images. In fact, Photoshop is extremely used by top companies, and numerous individuals in the world of internet marketing. How is this so?

You have probably heard of ecovers before, an how ecover generators or photoshop ecover actions can be used to create one. An ecover is basically a visual representation of the product you are selling. Before, ecovers were two-dimensional, which was not good because customers cannot really be assured of how the product is like. However, with the advances in technology, 3D imaging was made possible. Now, ecovers make your digital representations tangible, encouraging prospects to make a purchase.

Run a search using keywords such as ecovers, photoshop ecover actions, and ecover software and you will find a lot of useful websites that provide information about creating ecovers and many that even sell packages designed particularly to conserve your time and money. Ecover software can be very practical, because not only does it provide you ecovers of outstanding quality for your products, they would cost you considerably less as well, compared to professional graphic designers which charge you a fairly high amount PER HOUR for their work. Also, these graphic designers would most likely use Photoshop as well to fix some elements of their photos such as color enhancement and correction. Saying so, why can’t you just use Photoshop yourself to do it?

Some of the packages you can find online would over inclusions of photoshop ecover actions which allow you to add text, create image layers, have superior control of fonts, colors, background designs and images, and even lets you add effects to your images that would best match the product or company brand you are promoting or selling. Some of these include color effects such as black and white and sepia. You can also create fractal images. Your images could also be transformed with a number of artistic styles to choose from like photocopy effect, sketch, color pencil, watercolor, and charcoal effect. You can also use distort effects, brush strokes, glowing images, neon glows, stone, grain or water textures, vintage and dramatic photo effects, filter effects, cross processing effects, lomo effects, blurs, sharpen effects, smudge tools, contrast and brightness adjustments to edit and enhance your photos. You can even add lighting effects to make your photos look like professional studio pictures. All this and a whole lot more!

Photoshop ecover actions work very well because these are simply just a series of tasks which have been pre-recorded that have already taken place so as to achieve the striking ecover for your product. The best news, no tedious tasks are involved! A few clicks on the mouse would do the job. Save money and time, while getting to enjoy creating the best ecover for your product.

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3D Photoshop Actions is a product created by Ben Clemons and Josh Fuller. The purpose of it is to allow you to create awesome looking ebook covers in many different shapes without you having to understand much about graphic design. All it requires is that you have a copy of Adobe Photoshop. These days you really can’t hide from either becoming a graphic designer or hiring one to get your Internet Marketing Products off the ground.

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The one thing I don’t like about the product is that they don’t have the same action scripts for header graphics and banners. So from this perspective I think the product has
some ways to go to improve the quality. I mean if they had this I could literally dump my graphic designer all together. But some is better than none, and I truly feel they have a great product here, and the testimonials on this website are honest and genuine.

3D Photoshop Actions does offer a full year money back guarantee. I have a feeling that the videos cover what you need to know to be able to put these killer ebook covers together without any more help. Another benefit is you can open up your own ecover service business and start selling ecovers to other people. They won’t even know how easy you are creating them. So overall I would recommend this product, but hopefully they will add header graphics and banners into their product in the future.

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When you hear talk about product marketing, you hear words like, ecovers, ecover generators, and even using photoshop actions and templates to make CD Covers, DVD Covers, Ebook Covers for your products.

If you’re selling information products, you want a quick and smiple solution for getting your customers familiar with your product, and increasing sales volume.

The buzz about using ecover software and Photoshop as a time & money-saving alternative started around May of 2003 when several web marketers found thier nitche, and the idea was successful.

Andrew Jackson of MGI Software, an Internet software and services company, says that “there is a 30% increase in sales and a 50% reduction in returned goods with the use of 3D imaging.” – Los Angeles Business Journal, December 17, 2000

Do a search on DVD Cover Designs, CD Cover Designs, or eBook Covers, and you’ll find a handful of website that sell a kit specifically designed to save you time and money.

Photographers and Graphic designers charge you between $50 to $80 per hour for the work.

When a highly respected product photographer takes a photo, more than likely it will be digitized into Photoshop for color correction and enhancement. Using photoshop for making ecovers just makes perfect sense.

“A growing number of e-businesses are experimenting with the rapidly emerging field of three-dimensional web technology. Others are counting on 3-D to add new levels of excitement and realism to e-commerce websites (…) Photo realism really enhances believability.” CIO Magazine, “3-D Finally Gets Serious”

Some of what you may find are packages containing pre-made Photoshop templates and Photoshop Actions that let you add your own text, have full control of fonts, background images, colors, and even add effects that best match your product or company brand.

Photoshop actions work well because the actions are nothing more than a series of recorded tasks that have already taken place in order to create the stunning ecover.

The awesome combination between premade photoshop templates and actions work much better than the ecover generator sofware for several reasons:

1) You’re working with relyable software from a wellknown company like Adobe. You know that the software is stable and is used by design industry professionals.

2) Free Trial Versions are most always available to try for free.

3) The people behind the photoshop ecover designs are more than likely graphic designers. Check thier work for attention to detail depending on how realistic and professional looking you want your ecover to be.

4) Unlike software “generators”, you are limited to the effects and options that are knowhere near the expertise, freedom, flexiblility, and raw power of Photoshop & actions.

Where product photographers require you bring your products and to come to their in house studio and pay around $50.00 per hour (not including setup fees), automated product cover software allows you to design and upload a professional image of your product in less than a few hours.

With the speed of automating a 3 dimensional image that looks just as good as the real thing in under 5 minutes, that is cost effective!

But buyer beware. Some automated product cover design packages are not created equal. Most only allow you to make images of your products at only 72 dpi, while others like Grant’s 5-Minute DVD, CD, and Ebook Cover Designs and Actions for Photoshop (http://www.designbygrant.com/marketing-products.php) allow you to create images at up to 300 dpi.

This means that you can take full advantage of almost every marketing effort you can think of, including:

-Product Posters & Billboards
-HDTV Broadcast Comericals
-Trade show banners and backdrops

What’s the best part you ask? That’s simple. The best part is that if you already have Photoshop, you can save hours and even days to effectively market your product on the internet, and anywhere else you can reach your customers.

If you don’t have Photoshop, download it directly from the Adobe website and try it free.

© Copyright 2010. Grant Freeman

About The Author
Grant Freeman has been a Freelance Graphic Designer, Web Designer, Photographer, Video Editor, and Creative Director for over 13 years. His most noted clients include Sony, Bertolucci, Land Rover, and various International Recording Artist in the U.S.

Visit Grants website online at www.freemancreations.com for Photoshop learning, and various creative business to business solutions.

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