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CS3 actions

Postby edskii on Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:00 pm

hey all,
i'm quite new to post precessing actions in CS3, how do you go about processing your image in CS3 and is there anywhere i can get these actions?
any help would be appreciated
forgot to mention.....sharpening action for landscapes is what i'm after
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Re: CS3 actions

Postby jdear on Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:49 pm

Hi and welcome to the board! Thanks for your question...

but I don't think your giving us enough information - what do you want the actions to do?
eg:

output as JPEG
convert B&W
resize for web
bump colour
add borders

blah blah blah...

What style photography is it for? PP'ing for portraits is different from landscapes.

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Re: CS3 actions

Postby edskii on Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:31 pm

thanks for the reminder Jonathan ! :D
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Re: CS3 actions

Postby Matt. K on Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:33 pm

FILTER/SHARPEN/UNSHARP MASK
Adjust slider to suit individual image or record doing this to 1 image as an action and run the action on a whole folder of images.
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Re: CS3 actions

Postby zafra52 on Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:23 pm

Perhaps you should take a look at:

http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm

I found some actions quite good. Perhaps you could buy professional actions elsewhere, but these are free. I hope this helps.
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Re: CS3 actions

Postby Greg B on Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:27 pm

Just to expand slightly on Matt's post - and based on your comment that you are new to actions so
apologies if you already know this - an action is really just a macro. A series of recorded steps
which you can apply to any image or group of images.

Firstly, figure out what steps you want, and the settings for each step.

Then, make a new action by pressing the record button and then performing each step. You
don't have to rush, but every step you do will be in the action. The adjustments you make before
applying the step don't get recorded, just the settings at the time you apply the step.

You can put just about anything in an action. I suggest you do some with just a couple of steps, doesn't
matter what they are - to get familiar with it, then make yourself the actions you want.
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Re: CS3 actions

Postby jdear on Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:57 pm

You can also have actions play other actions which I find useful for generic steps like sharpening, resizing to web and exporting as sRGB / 8bit Jpeg.

eg: action 1
convert B+W
play output action

action 2
bump colour
play output action

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