Adobe Photoshop 7'0 Design Professional

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Chapter Lessons
OVERVIEW

• Add annotations to an image
• Create an action
• Modify an action
• Use a default action and create a droplet

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Communicating
INTRODUCTION

• Communicate with the person viewing an image by
• Creating written notes
• A comment that appears in the image
• Creating audio annotations
• A sound file saved within the image

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Using Automation
INTRODUCTION

• Use the Actions feature to automate commonly
  performed tasks
• Record all the steps required for an action
• Play the action
• An action is a series of tasks that are recorded
  and saved for future use

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Ensuring Consistency
INTRODUCTION

• Create actions for frequently used tasks to
• Use them in other Photoshop images
• Ensure consistency between related images

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Add Annotations to an Image Creating Written
Annotations
LESSON 1

• Use the Notes Tool to create written annotations
• Similar to yellow sticky notes
• Click the Notes Tool on the Tools palette
• Click where the note should appear in the image
• Type the contents of the note

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Working with Notes
LESSON 1

• Each note has an icon displayed on the image
• This icon is not printed
• Open the note by double-clicking the icon

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Viewing a Note
LESSON 1
Note text
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Personalizing a Note
LESSON 1

• Change the color of the notes title bar
• Click the Annotation color color box on the
  options bar
• Change the author of the note
• Select the contents of the Name of author for
  annotations text box, then enter a new name and
  press Enter (Win) or return (Mac)

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Creating Audio Annotations
LESSON 1

• Click the Audio Annotation Tool on the Tools
  palette
• Click where the annotation should appear
• Click the Start button
• Record the message
• Double-click the audio icon to play the message

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Create an Action Understanding Actions
LESSON 2

• Most Photoshop actions that can be performed
  using a button or menu command can be recorded as
  an action
• Each action can contain
• One or more steps
• A stop that allows completion of a command that
  cant be recorded

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Saving and Storing Actions
LESSON 2

• Actions are stored in sets
• Each set is saved as an .atn file typically named
  by the category or actions they contain
• Example A multiple type-related action could be
  stored in a set named Type Actions

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Accessing Actions
LESSON 2

• Access actions from the Actions palette
• Grouped with the History palette
• View actions in List mode or in Button mode on
  the Actions palette

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Modes
LESSON 2

• List Mode
• Default setting
• Displays the details within each action
• Button Mode
• Displays each action without details

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Operating Actions
LESSON 2

• Use media-player buttons to operate an action
• Buttons include
• Play
• Record
• Stop
• Move Forward
• Move Backward

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Creating Actions
LESSON 2

• When recording takes place, the red Recording
  button appears on the Actions palette
• Use the Playback Options dialog box to modify how
  actions are played back

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Playback Options Dialog Box
LESSON 2
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Action Playback Options
LESSON 2
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Creating an Action
LESSON 2

• Take a snapshot of the image
• Click the Actions palette tab
• Click the Create a new action button on the
  Actions palette
• Type the name of the action in the Name text box
• Assign a color to the action
• The action is displayed in this color in Button
  mode

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Actions Palette
LESSON 2
Create new action button
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New Action Dialog box
LESSON 2
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Recording an Action
LESSON 2

• Perform the steps required for the action
• Click the Stop playing/recording button on the
  Actions palette

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Playing an Action
LESSON 2

• Click the action in the Actions palette
• Click the History palette tab and click the
  snapshot taken of the image before performing the
  action
• The image is restored to its original state
• Click the Actions palette tab
• Click the Play selection button on the Actions
  palette

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Modifying an Action
LESSON 3

• Click the step that will come after or before the
  new steps to add
• Click the Begin recording button on the Actions
  palette
• Record the steps
• Click the Stop playing/recording button

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Switching Modes
LESSON 3

• Toggle between List mode and Button mode
• Click the Actions palette list arrow
• Click Button Mode (or List Mode)

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Actions Palette Modes
LESSON 3
Button Mode
List Mode
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Modifications for Actions
LESSON 3
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Understanding a Stop
LESSON 3

• Command that interrupts playback to allow
  performance of another operation
• To insert a stop
• Click the step just above where the pause should
  take place
• Click the Actions palette list arrow, then click
  Insert Stop
• Enter a text message in the Record Stop dialog
  box
• Select the Allow Continue check box

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Record Stop Dialog box
LESSON 3
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Use a Default Action and Create a Droplet
Using Default Actions
LESSON 4

• Add a default action to any action already
  created
• Default actions are actions included with
  Photoshop

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Default Actions
LESSON 4

• Vignette
• Frame Channel
• Wood Frame
• Cast Shadow
• Water Reflection
• Custom RGB to Grayscale
• Molten Lead

• Make Clip Path (selection)
• Sepia Toning (layer)
• Quadrant Colors
• Save as Photoshop PDF
• Gradient Map

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Using Default Actions
LESSON 4

• Select the step in a new action that is above
  where the default action should occur
• Click the Begin recording button
• Scroll through the actions palette to find the
  required default action
• Click the action, then click the Play selection
  button
• All the steps in the default action are performed
  when the new action is played

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Default Action Sets
LESSON 4

• Commands
• Frames
• Image Effects
• Production
• Text Effects
• Textures

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Loading a Default Action Set
LESSON 4

• Click the Actions palette list arrow
• Click the name of the set to load

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Understanding a Droplet
LESSON 4

• Stand-alone action in the form of an icon
• Drag one or more Photoshop files onto the droplet
  icon to perform the action on the file
• Accessing droplets
• Store on the hard drive
• Place on the desktop
• Distribute to other users

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Droplet on the Desktop
LESSON 4
Droplet
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Creating a Droplet
LESSON 4

• Click File on the menu bar
• Point to Automate, then click Create Droplet
• Click Choose
• Enter the name of the droplet
• Identify the location in which to save the
  droplet, then click Save

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Chapter 15 Tasks
SUMMARY

• Add written and audio annotations to an image
• Understand actions
• Record and play an action
• Modify an action
• Use default actions and action sets
• Create and use a droplet