Resizing loads of photos

So you want a bunch of photos to be resized all in once? Well then bridge is the way to go since it will save you alot of time following the steps below in this tutorial, good luck. Oh and keeping in mind that adobe bridge isn't available in all photoshop versions, only in the CS versions, I use CS2 myself for this tutorial.

Batch Actions

Photoshop has a very nice feature that let's you record something, save that recording as a script, and then, replay that scrip as many times as you tell it to. This comes in very handy if you have a certain number of effects you want to apply to an image in a certain order, or if you have a huge folder of images you want to resize and save to another folder. Let's tackle the first example... You've just gone out and snapped a bunch of pictures with your digital camera, came home, and uplo

Automated Flash Gallery

Photoshop has a built in feature called the Web Photo Gallery. This will take all of your images you want to use, change their properties and then save them out into a gallery format. All of this is done with a few clicks. This tutorial will show you how to manage it useing the Flash gallery option. [ See an Example ] Step 1. First, open up Adobe Photoshop goto File>Automate>Web Photo Gallery. This will open a dialog box. Set the first option "Styles:" to "Flash - Gallery 2". Now type you

110% Image Resample Macro

Resizing an image to a larger size isn't hard but the results are far from perfect. The image quality is reduced because the program is trying to fill in pixels that weren't there in the first place. Well there are a few things you can do to keep that quality. To make it easier, let's make it a macro so you can use it over and over again!.

Working With Photoshop Scripts

Increase Your Productivity Many people are not familiar with the power of Photoshop Scripts and aren't aware that there are many excellent sample scripts and learning guides included with Photoshop. This tutorial will show you where to find the Photoshop Scripting Guides, show you how to install Photoshop Scripts, and explain how to work with Photoshop Scripts. So Why Use Scripts Instead Of Actions? Adobe Photoshop CS2 Official JavaScript ReferencePhotoshop Scripts are Actions on steroids,

Automating Tasks in Photoshop

While Photoshop has a host of automation tools, the most versatile, and indeed the most powerful, is called an Action. In fact, some other automation commands such as Batches and Droplets derive their functionality from actions. An action is like a macro (or script): however, while macros have a reputation for being confusing and difficult to create, this is not the case with actions. If you know how to use Photoshop, you know most of what you need to create your own action. Let's say you hav

Creating a More Complex Action

For this example, we will create an action that mirrors the active layer across both the vertical and horizontal axes (on a separate layer to ensure that the original layer remains unaltered) and then centers the results on the canvas. This can be useful for creating symmetrical shapes, repeating patterns, and refrigerator art ;-). To demonstrate what the action will do, see the figure below.

Photoshop Action and Batch to Resize Images

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a custom action and use Photoshop’s batch command to process a group of images to a certain size. This is a fairly simple tutorial, but does require some Photoshop knowledge. For this tutorial, we are going to create a group of thumbnail images for a website gallery. So we are going to convert all our images to small jpg’s. Here we go…. First off, we need to do a little prep work. And believe me, this prep work can save you a lot of probl

How-To use the Glassy Buttons Action

This HOW-TO describes how to use the 2Dvalley.com Glassy Buttons Action, which you can download here. 1. Download the 2Dvalley_buttons.atn file and place it in a folder on your hard disk (i.e. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Presets\Photoshop Actions) 2. In Photoshop, select Actions from the Windows menu, or instead just click the Actions tab shown below, and click the small arrow button and select Load Actions.

Adobe Bridge — Photoshop CS2 (Photoshop 9) Video Tutorial

In this video clip you'll get a first look at the new Adobe Bridge featured in Photoshop CS2 (Photoshop 9). Adobe Bridge is a stand-alone application, the next-generation File Browser, where you can process multiple camera raw images at once; resize, rate, and label thumbnails; quickly review images in Slideshow mode; search metadata; and more. In this clip you'll learn the following: How to use the new View Controls for changing the size of thumbnails with a slider. How to preview a varie

Conditional Actions in ImageReady CS

14 minute over conditional actions. ImageReady is the poor stepchild to Photoshop and often is neglected. If you are not using IR...you are missing out. In this video, you will build four actions to batch folders of photos. From the actions, you will create droplets. Based on the conditions you set... you will be able to add 2 different colored frames, apply different levels of sharpening while applying these settings to either portrait or landscape photos. IR will choose which format will recei

Making and Using Actions

In this tutorial you will learn how to make and use custom actions. For the purpose of demonstration, I will be showing you how to add a colorizing action. Keep in mind you can add an action for almost any PhotoShop function. 1. Make a new doccument, size doesn't matter. Or open an image. a. Click the Actions tab, mine is next to the History tab. If you do not see your Actions tab, click Window > Actions on the top menu. Screen Shot b. Click the New Action button at the bottom of the

Creating your own Action and Droplets for repeating tasks

Creating Droplets for repeating jobs can save you a lot of time, for example if you were to open 100 images and reduce their dimensions by 50%, reduce their quality by 30% and save them in GIF format. Then it would be a very boring job to do, and definetely it would take some of your valuable which you could spend on other important things. Fortunatley these kind of jobs can be transferred to Photoshop, you just have to tell it what to do and how to do it and Photoshop will complete it in no tim

Batch Processing

I am going to show you how to batch (or perform the same task on a large amount of images). For our purposes, we're going to take our larger photographs and resize them to thumbnails that we can show on the web. The first step is to put all your original sized images in one folder. Now create another empty folder called 'thumbnails'. The first step we're going to take is to rename all our images to something generic. In my case, all my photographs are from the zoo, so I am going to use zoo

Record & Play an Action

By recording a Photoshop action, you can automate your chores and have Photoshop do the dirty work which you did once when you recorded your action steps. This tutorial will show you how to record a simple action and to apply it on a document. Click on the link above or on the image below to start this tutorial.

Using the Trim Command to Crop Your Images

This is a great way to automatically crop your images With any object or image open, go up to Image>Trim... to open the Trim dialog window. starting image You can now specify how you want your image trimmed. If you keep all options under "Trim Away" selected, your image will be trimmed as close to the edge as possible without cutting into your image. It even reads drop shadows and other effects so you won't have to worry about losing any of your effects. You can alternatively specify w

Creating Your Own Actions

To learn to automate your production process in Photoshop 7 by creating actions to perform frequent or mundane tasks. Tools/Techniques: Actions, recording and editing actions Once you start working with Photoshop 7 for some time you'll find that your projects require many of the same, repetitive actions and tasks. By creating custom actions for your more routine tasks, you'll have more time for more important things: Designing!

Batch Processing

To learn how to customize and automate your workflow in Photoshop 7 by using the Batch Processing command to quickly process large groups of images. Tools & Techniques: Actions, commands, batch processing In an earlier lesson, you learned how to create your own actions for tasks you repeatedly perform. In this lesson, we'll take it a step further by applying our new action to a batch process. Batch processing is useful when you have a lot of images that require the same actions to be appl