Power, Speed & Automation with Adobe Photoshop


Book Description

This is a must for the serious Photoshop user! Power, Speed & Automation explores how to customize and automate Photoshop to increase your speed and productivity. With numerous step-by-step instructions, the authors-two of Adobe's own software developers!- walk you through the steps to best tailor Photoshop's interface to your personal workflow; write and apply Actions; and use batching and scripts to process large numbers of images quickly and automatically. You will learn how to build your own dialogs and panels to improve your production workflows in Photoshop, the secrets of changing keyboard shortcuts and menus, and ways to tune your system for optimal performance. Writing new processes using JavaScript is also covered, as well as leveraging Variables with data sets. Learn how to get more work done? more easily and quickly? with this essential guide! *This book can be used with any version of Photoshop through CS6!*




The Photoshop Productivity Series


Book Description

In The Photoshop Productivity Series: Automating Photoshop–the second in a three-part "Photoshop Productivity" series by Photoshop guru Dave Cross–Dave teaches you that Photoshop automation is really about having Photoshop do the most amount of work for you as possible. Wherever automation can make your job easier and take less time, there's an opportunity to have Photoshop be more efficient for you. In this ebook, Dave tackles Photoshop's built-in automations, such as cropping and straightening photos, lens corrections, and photomerges; not-so-obvious automations, such as using tools such as the Blend If sliders, stack modes, auto-blending, and content aware tools; built-in scripts; the Configurator; the built-in automations that Bridge offers; actions–what's available, how to build them, load them, edit them, and share them; and how to process multiple files at once. Implementing the techniques and approach taught in this ebook will have you working more efficiently in Photoshop, and letting it do a lot of the heavy lifting for you!




The Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic


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If you really want to harness the power of Adobe Photoshop CS2 and get things done faster than ever, you've come to the right place. Matt Kloskowski, Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, shows you how to use the power of automation to instantly save time, money, and frustration. This book isn't about free actions or fancy keyboard shortcuts. Instead, it's about learning how to work faster, smarter, and more efficiently in Photoshop by taking advantage of the many timesaving features it offers. Once you master these powerful tools, you'll wonder how you ever got along without them.




Photoshop: Automation


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Learn how to utilize actions and automation in Adobe Photoshop and Bridge to speed up your workflow.




Automate Image Editing in Adobe Photoshop CS5


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UPGRADE YOUR SKILLS IN HALF A DAY THIS FOCUSED WORKSHOP provides over 3 hours of high-quality video training on using Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 to supplement and streamline a photo-editing workflow without sacrificing image quality. You'll be introduced to core automation concepts and begin putting basic automation tools to use. You'll also learn how to process multiple RAW captures efficiently; quickly rename, resize, and apply changes in appearance to a group of images; and process images for quick sharing. And you'll explore actions, an incredibly powerful tool for processing images in a consistent way to help you streamline a complex workflow, apply creative effects consistently, and prepare images for sharing.




Photoshop for Video


Book Description

Master the graphic design and production skills required of today's video editors and motion graphic professionals with this comprehensive guide to the video tools in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. Every page is filled with techniques to help the video professional make graphics for use in television, video, the Internet, and DVD. Lively discourse, full-color presentations, and hands-on tutorials demonstrate everything you need to know about how to combine still and moving images. Fundamental concepts such as transparency, pixel aspect ratio, and alpha channels are made precisely clear, and advanced techniques show how to use Photoshop as a character generator, color corrector, and animation tool. This edition features expanded coverage of DVD and motion graphics design, as well as addressing recent developments in High Definition video, 3D models, and 32-bit imaging. This indispensable reference includes: * real-world solutions for making graphics for video * introduction to third party plug-ins * automation and shortcut methods that cut production time * profiles of notable editors and motion graphic artists that include their favorite tips and tricks The downloadable resources offer a hands-on multimedia experience with hundreds of images to work on, tutorials to complete and 2 1⁄2 hours of video training to watch. Authored in CS3, CS4 updates are provided to readers by the publisher.




Robotic Process Automation in Desktop Publishing


Book Description

Automation serves as an essential component in business to achieve company goals with qualitatively and quantitatively better results. The use of automation is also in the field of desktop publishing (DTP) indispensable to achieve cost savings in the company and to improve the final results through standardization and error reduction, as well as to relieve employees with regard to laborious and monotonous tasks. This essential aims to summarize the many possibilities of automation in the field of DTP, focusing on repetitive artwork processes in prepress.




Photoshop for Video


Book Description

Master the graphic design and production skills required of today's video editors and motion graphic professionals with this comprehensive guide to the video tools in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. Every page is filled with techniques to help the video professional make graphics for use in television, video, the Internet, and DVD. Lively discourse, full-color presentations, and hands-on tutorials demonstrate everything you need to know about how to combine still and moving images. Fundamental concepts such as transparency, pixel aspect ratio, and alpha channels are made precisely clear, and advanced techniques show how to use Photoshop as a character generator, color corrector, and animation tool. This edition features expanded coverage of DVD and motion graphics design, as well as addressing recent developments in High Definition video, 3D models, and 32-bit imaging. This indispensable reference includes: * real-world solutions for making graphics for video * introduction to third party plug-ins * automation and shortcut methods that cut production time * profiles of notable editors and motion graphic artists that include their favorite tips and tricks The downloadable resources offer a hands-on multimedia experience with hundreds of images to work on, tutorials to complete and 2 1⁄2 hours of video training to watch. Authored in CS3, CS4 updates are provided to readers by the publisher.




Photoshop CC For Dummies


Book Description

Introduces the basics of Photoshop CC and provides explanations of the most used menus, panels, tools, options, and shortcuts, and also features tips for fixing common photo flaws, improving color quality, and adjusting brightness.




The Photoshop Productivity Series


Book Description

In The Photoshop Productivity Series: Customizing Photoshop–the first in a three-part "Photoshop Productivity" series by Photoshop guru Dave Cross–Dave teaches you that Photoshop productivity is not just about actions and automation. This ebook focuses on an often-overlooked aspect of increasing your productivity: setting up Photoshop to look and operate the way you want it to. Why dig through countless menus when you can streamline them? Why not create keyboard shortcuts for the functions you use most often? When you find yourself applying the same criteria over and over, why not make a preset? In this ebook, Dave focuses on this exact kind of customization–discussing preferences, panels, menus, keyboard shortcuts, workspaces, and presets–which, once implemented, will have you working faster and more productively in Photoshop in no time!