As a Chicago Marketing Company, the designers at Integraphix
are avid users of the Adobe Creative Suite. For print projects and web
projects, our designers in Chicago often use Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and
InDesign on a daily basis. With so much experience using these programs, our
creative agency has become very proficient working with design software.
Have you ever needed to modify a mass amount of images at
one time? Take for instance you are creating an online gallery for a web design
you created. To make your gallery look clean and professional you definitely
want all of your images to be the same size. If you have many images this may
seem like a very long process. Luckily, there is a solution for modifying
multiple different images fast and efficiently. Actions are a 1 step editing
process in Photoshop that allows you to preform multiple different actions with
one click. Actions can be extremely
useful time-savers when you find yourself performing the same steps over and
over again.
Creating Actions:
Photoshop actions are very easy to create and use. An action
is simply formatting that has been recorded and can be used on any other
Photoshop Document. To record you own action, open the “Actions” palette and
hit the new action button. The new action button is the button second from the
right side of the bottom of the actions palette.
You will need to designate a name for your action and also a
function key. If you set an action with the function key: “F5” every time you
are in Photoshop and click the F5 key, the action will automatically take
place.
Once the action has been created you can record all of the
formatting you would like to take place in the action. You can record unlimited
amount of changes including size changes, text adds or edits, color changes,
file saving and more! Once you have finished carrying out all of the desired
steps, hit the “Stop” button in the action palette.
Installing Actions:
As a Chicago Marketing Company the Integraphix designers
love to share design techniques and ideas with other designers. There are many
Photoshop actions that are available to be purchased and downloaded. There are
multiple ways you can install Photoshop actions. According to our expert
graphic designers, the easiest way to download actions is to drag the
downloaded files in the “Actions” folder contained within the “Presets” folder
in your Photoshop application folder. If
this technique doesn’t work for you, you can always click on the little arrow
on the right of the actions menu and click on “Load Actions”. This option will
allow you to navigate to any actions on your computer and load them into
Photoshop instantly.
Do you use Photoshop actions? Share your favorite Photoshop
actions with our Chicago Marketing Company and leave us a comment!! We would
love to hear your feedback. For more tips and tricks on Graphic Design - Visit our website: http://www.integraphix.com and Contact Us!
