Photoshop Actions Palette Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photo Shop is registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Hi guys on this final tutorial in my basic Photo Shop assignment I am actually going to show you guys about "actions". Now "actions" really is not a basic thing, it is kind of a more advanced thing, but I am still going to show you guys because for you people who are just starting out in photography, this can actually help your post production out some much more. Say for instance you have a image, say for instance you have twenty images you have taken outdoors and they all have a problem. They are all under exposed or they have a little bit of yellow added to them or say for instance you just want to do minor curves, adjustment and a minor saturation adjustment but you do not want to do it individually to every single image. Now "actions" what it does is helps you with that process. What I am going to do is show you where "actions" is located. If you go, it is either on your history down over here and sometimes your history palate is not out. What you can do is click "Actions" which is right there or what you can do is go to Windows and click "Actions" and there is the shortcut for it. But obviously it is down over here and I am going to bring it up just so you guys can see. The way that Actions works is there is already a lot of pre-done actions that Photo Shop gives you like "Wood frame, Frame channel, cast shadow" and I really do not ever use any of this, but say for instance we want to make a new action, what you do is you click right over here where my cursor is "Create New Action" and it is going to give you a name prompt. So what you want to do is, say if you want to name it, I do not know "Test Saturation, say you want to boost the saturation on every one of your pictures but you do not want to have to go in there and do it yourself. What you do is you hit the button "Record" and as you can see right over here the Record button has turned red. So now you go ahead along your business, you hit "Image, Adjustment, Saturation" boost saturation just a little bit, you hit "okay". As you can see it added "human saturation" down over here on my little dialog box right there. So if you want to add you know, you want to take the red out of an image, you put Cyan and now it added the color balance on there too. So we did for this one image, so you hit stop and it has actually saved that action in there for you. All you have to do is click back up at the top, now when you open a new image and all you have to do is, give me one second, open a new image and say for instance we open this image right here all we have to do is go ahead and hit "play" and it automatically boosts the saturation and change the color balance. If you do not believe me you can actually go back in your history and it will show you, I am sorry this program popped up, you can actually see back in the history that it added a hue and color balance to this image. So that is the original and it actually added this for you, so say for instance you have thirty images, all you have to do is open them in Photo Shop and hit the "play" button once you have recorded your action and you have yourself, you know, one by one, you can do each one in two seconds, because Photo Shop does all the work for you. So that is Actions in a nutshell."