15. Actions and Automation
While Photoshop is an extremely efficient program, you're truly missing out if you don't learn how to harness actions and automation. Photoshop has three categories of technology that can streamline your workflow a...
Actions
Photoshop's actions technology lets you record nearly every command (or better yet, a series of commands) and then play them back on another image. You can use basic actions, such as a resize or file format change, to quickly convert files...
Automate Commands
Photoshop offers several commands for speeding up professional imaging workflow. We'll explore each option available as of this writing. If you are working with an older version of Photoshop, you might not have some of these au...
Scripts
Photoshop scripting offers a more powerful automation technology than actions. Scripts allow for the execution of more elaborate tasks than what actions can do. This is because scripts recognize conditional states. Scripting was introduced...
