Actions?

[Alistair]

Would anyone be willing to give me a couple good sites that would show me how to use the 'Actions' pallete? I realized that I've never used it and that it may just be useful. If not a website, does anyone have good explanation and instructions that they could give me.

I also realized there is a animation pallete. Does this work like Imageready?

Best,

- Al

 

[Sean]

I don't know any sites off the top of my head, but I know creating actions are very easy. Just create a new action and press record. This records what ever you do in PS so you can apply the same exact steps to another image. You can also do it to a batch of images using the 'automate' feature. I don't use this often, but when I need to do something to alot of images it is very helpful.

 

[namvet]

p?tr??k .. have just put that in my 'tips and tricks' folder ... thanks

.... \:/ \:/ \:/ ....

I don't use this often, but when I need to do something .. alot .... it is very helpful.

... \:/ ... I need a 'make another coffee' action ...

 

[Sean]

I need a 'make another coffee' action

Me too!

 

[TaoBoogie]

Alistair, I'm just posting "on the fly" right now so I've not the time to go into detail untill saturday or Sunday night if it is needed.
Here is a picture I made with actions using a simple shape to begin with. The shape was very much like the Nike logo, you know the shape that looks like a stylised tick.
Mandlebrotted Abstract
Here is the .RAR (ed) .PSD so you can get an idea of the steps I took. Abstract .PSD Take note that it is about 6 MB in size.
Action Central is a good site to look at to give you a good idea of the possibilities using actions.
Tao

 

[sPECtre]

Here are two references about actions:

A concise tutorial by Trevor Morris : http://user.fundy.net/morris/photoshop21.shtml

The Ultimate Actions tutorial by Danny Raphael (you might recognize some names in there ): http://www.atncentral.com/tutorials.htm

 

[Alistair]

Thank you guys. I think this is enough information for me!

Cheers 8))

- Al