PS Beginners MUST See! PS Action detailed use of graphics and text tutorial

In doing image processing, we pay attention to quality, but also need to pay attention to time, you can't spend a lot of time dealing with an image, of course, you can't spend a lot of time doing repetitive work, so when using PS, we should pay attention to the method, make full use of PS to our resources and commands, and talk about efficiency, We have to talk about PS action, which is something that many people overlook.

PS action is no less important than the PS layer, filter, PS in the introduction of the action method, not only can make cumbersome operation is simplified, but also greatly facilitate the exchange of experience between users. Especially when you need to perform the same series of operations on a large number of files, the flexibility to use the action will give you more effort. In addition, if you are Photoshop rookie, but as long as you have the Photoshop Master of the action file, you can also create brilliant works! And through the action steps of learning, can greatly improve your design level.

Let us uncover the veil of action Mystery, open Photoshop 7.0, select window/action command, and open the action panel:

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As you can see, the action panel is made up of three parts:

One, the upper right corner of the small black triangle, press will pop-up action menu:

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The middle part is the action list, which shows the existing action (there is only one default acitons in your list before the action is loaded).

First of all, a small triangle with the folder symbol indicates that this is a set, equivalent to the directory, press the small triangle in front of the folder, appears to be the real one of the macros (see the above image of the default acitons), if there is a triangle in front of it, the subordinate has other steps.

Second, an icon with three dots in the middle indicates whether to eject the parameter setting window when the step is performed so that the user can set it himself. If not, explain one step in the end (as in the above image "image Effect"), all use the default setting, and if it is red (as in the previous figure, default acitons), it indicates that some of the subordinate steps require the user to set it up, while others take the default; if it is gray (as shown in the Blending 2 Images "), indicating that all needs to be set on its own. Finally, the beginning of the check mark indicates whether the macro is allowed to run.

In addition, the bottom button is the action shortcut, left to right, stop playing/logging, start record, play selection, create new settings, create new actions, delete actions, and so on

Here's a glimpse of the magic function of the PS action:

First, the use of PS Action batch processing image files

When doing a website, in order to increase the visual impact or to add a watermark to their image to illustrate copyright issues, etc. in short, we need to deal with a batch of images, if we deal with one, it will cost us a lot of time, this is not worth it, because wasting time is a waste of life, let us use PS action to lazy First, put the image you need in a folder, such as I am here to deal with the she image, I want to convert 13 pictures into Black-and-white photos, and the "wave" watermark.

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We opened a picture of she, then open the Action panel, perform the "Create New settings", in the pop-up panel set as follows (when we recommend the name of the people, try to connect with the effect you want, for example, you want to give the image to do the effect of high light, you can name "Hightlight" name, It is very important to make a good habit of understanding and learning, and here as an example, we'll name it "sample":

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Continue to the "Create new Action" command, in the pop-up menu, we keep setting the default form:

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At this time we can see the red light under the panel began to light up, indicating that it has been recorded:

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Back to the layer, we adjust the image size to the size of the 600x450, and convert to Gray, plus the "wave" watermark (do not do other things):

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Let's go back to the action panel and see what's changed:

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As you can see, we have just been recorded in the operation, after the operation, we perform "Stop play/record" This time the red light is not lit:

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Now we do batch processing, open File/Auto/batch processing, and make the following settings:

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Batch Image: You can perform the same action operation on multiple image files to automate the operation.

Play

Sequence: Used to select the name of the action set to apply.

Action: Select the action to apply.

Source

Folder folders: Represents an image file within a specified folder to be processed, and click Select to choose the folder you specify.

IMPORT: Means to select an image from a (custom) Drop-down Color list to be obtained from another file format or scanner.

Open file: Indicates that the file to be processed is currently open.

File Browser: Indicates that all files in the file browser are being processed.

Objective

None: Indicates no save.

Save and close: Indicates that the processed file can be saved with the original file name and automatically closed.

Folder: Represents the saved to the specified folder.

After the confirmation, we completed the batch processing, the processing of the finished image saved, back to the original folder to see:

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Second, the use of PS action to create magic patterns

In Digital image processing, we often see a lot of magic graphics, such as in the MATLAB, we will often see such a magic Picture:

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Such a complex image is a large part of the line and line overlay, the number of lines increased, and so on, with the program can be easily written out, now use the action to achieve such a complex effect!

Create a new transparent file and draw a curve on the background layer:

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Then switch to the action pad, create a new action sequence and action:

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Go back to the layers panel, copy the background layer, and move the line horizontally to the left:

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Back to the action panel, Stop recording (note that during the period do not do anything else), select action 1 to play the operation Bar! Oh, simple and simple to get so many lines.

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Arbitrarily carry out the polar coordinates command. You get the following image:

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Third, the use of other people's PS action production effect

I've said that using other people's best action can make it easy for us to make good images.

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Here I choose an action, at which point in my action panel will display the action we just selected:

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Then press the play!

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