Save Time in Adobe Photoshop with Actions & Automation
Photoshop is an extremely efficient program, but you’re truly missing out if you don’t learn how to use its automation features. Photoshop has three categories of technology that can streamline your workflow and save you hours of work per week.
These powerful commands can take the most repetitive tasks and automate them completely:
Actions record a series of commands for playback on future images. They can be used to generate extremely complex results. You can also use batch processing to run an action on an entire folder of images.
With minimal effort, automated commands perform complex production tasks (like creating panoramic or high dynamic range [HDR] images).
Scripts can perform tasks that are more complex than actions. Scripts have made a strong impact on complex workflow issues.
In addition to automation commands in Photoshop, a few additional tasks can be easily completed using Adobe Bridge. You can use Bridge as a powerful image browsing and organization tool. It also makes batch renaming files or creating contact sheets easy.