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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!

Table of Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. About the Author
  3. Introduction: Automate What You Can
    1. Getting Started
  4. Photoshop Built-In Automations
    1. PDF Presentation
    2. Crop and Straighten Photos
    3. Contact Sheet II
    4. Conditional Mode Change
    5. Fit Image
    6. Lens Correction
    7. Merge to HDR Pro
    8. Photomerge
  5. Not-So-Obvious Automation
    1. Blend If Sliders
    2. Auto-Align Layers
    3. Auto-Blend Layers
    4. Stack Modes
    5. Content Aware Tools
      1. Content-Aware Fill
      2. Patch Tool
      3. Spot Healing Brush
      4. Content-Aware Scale Tool
      5. Content-Aware Move Tool
      6. Content-Aware Move Tool: Extend Mode
  6. Photoshop Built-In Scripts
    1. Image Processor
    2. Delete All Empty Layers
    3. Flatten All Layer Effects
    4. Flatten All Masks
    5. Layer Comps to Files
    6. Layer Comps to PDF
    7. Layers to Files
    8. Script Events Manager
    9. Load Files into Stack
    10. Loading More Scripts
    11. Making Your Own Scripts
  7. Configurator
    1. Creating a New Panel
    2. Using Your New Panel
  8. Bridge Built-In Automations
    1. Batch Rename
    2. Load Files into Photoshop Layers
    3. Bridge Output
    4. Web Gallery
  9. Actions
    1. Actions Available to All Documents
    2. Every Step Goes into an Action
    3. Reviewing the Actions Panel
    4. Your First Action
    5. Using the Actions Panel
    6. Filters in Actions
    7. Allow Tool Recording
    8. One-Step Actions
    9. Editing Actions
      1. Insert Menu Item
      2. Insert Stop
      3. Insert Conditional
      4. Insert Path
    10. Loading Actions
    11. Sharing Actions
  10. Processing Multiple Files
    1. Batch
    2. Create Droplet
  11. Conclusion
  12. Copyright Page
  13. Need More Fuel?
    1. Peachpit Newsletters
    2. Let’s Be Friends on Social Media
  14. Powerful Ideas.Inspired eBooks.
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