Comments on: Photoshop Tutorial: Actions

By: Photoshop « Simple Moments

Photoshop « Simple Moments — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:07:11 +0000

[...] I visited Becoming Mom’s Blog. A came across a post about Photoshop Actions. When Jessica critiqued my photo’s she mentioned the actions she performed in Photoshop. I [...]

By: Randi

Randi — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:08:56 +0000

I just stumbled across this and thought I’d offer some insight. I started with Elements and while it’s sort of true you can’t do layer masks and actions in it, it’s sort of not true. I downloaded some free “actions” from CoffeeShop for PSE that explain where to save the actions (much more complicated than PS4) and one of the actions I downloaded creates a layer mask! So while it’s slightly more complicated, and not all actions work with it, you can hunt around and find some that will! I think Elements is definitely all the average photographer would need. I’d still be using it except I stole a copy of PS4 from work (shh!).

By: Photoshop Tutorial: Black and White the Old Fashioned Way! | Becoming Mom

Photoshop Tutorial: Black and White the Old Fashioned Way! | Becoming Mom — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:02:00 +0000

[...] say the old fashioned way because last week I showed you how to do a black and white conversion using an action. The action we used utilizes the same gradient map method that this video tutorial goes over, so [...]

By: Brochure Printing

Brochure Printing — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:33:55 +0000

Thank you for sharing this! I’ve used actions before, but only to quickly resize large numbers of photos. Never really tried this before, can’t wait to try it though!

By: anne marie (pinkbubbles)

anne marie (pinkbubbles) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:11:15 +0000

THANK YOU. i have been trying to figure that out forever! lol.

By: ariana

ariana — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:40:41 +0000

Hayley, that is really great to know, I’ll update my post to reflect the information about layer masking.

anne marie, what i mean is go to develop, get one pic how you want it and then select that pic.. then select all other pics and click on “synch”. You choose what you want to synch (i.e wb, exposure, split tone, etc) and voila! Your whole shoot edited :)

Jenn, you’ll love it I’m sure!

By: jenn

jenn — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:13:23 +0000

love photoshop fridays!! and i just learned about lightroom and am already a huge fan!! will be buying that very soon!!

By: anne marie (pinkbubbles)

anne marie (pinkbubbles) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:03:27 +0000

I LOOOVE lightroom! but i have a question i can’t figure out how to edit batches. i can only do one picture at a time. is there a way to edit whatever is in my library at once?

By: Hayley

Hayley — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:36:52 +0000

in elements, you also have limited ability to use layers and do not have the ability to use layer masks…which is a big part of photoshops functionality. :)

for the amateur photographer, i would not pay the full $600 or so dollars that photoshop costs–BUT, thats just me. however, i think as a pro, photoshop is absolutely imperative.

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:40:58 +0000

It has been so helpful for you to post the camera you used and the way that it is set for each photo that you have been posting lately. I am very new to photography and find this info so useful! Thank you!