tailieunhanh - Professional Information Technology-Programming Book part 22

Tham khảo tài liệu 'professional information technology-programming book part 22', công nghệ thông tin, kỹ thuật lập trình phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | . The Magic Action for Layered Workflow It takes only minutes to record this magic Workflow Action but if you re too lazy you can download it from from . The magical part comes when you realize that you can include the layers in the workflow for almost every image automatically. It also ensures that you ll follow a properly layered workflow for at least the most basic steps. Figure 5-3 shows the Layers palette. Figure 5-3. The Layers palette after running the Workflow Action. NOTE Actually there s nothing magical about this Action. My friend Doug Sahlin suggested it and I thought it a brilliant idea. So he said I could use it if I put his name in a prominent place in the book. Fair enough. To install the Workflow Layers Action 1. Go to the folder you downloaded it to select the Action and press Cmd Ctrl-C to copy it to the clipboard. 2. Navigate through your systems folders to Program Files Adobe Plugins. Once in the Plug-ins folder press Cmd Ctrl-V to paste the Action into this folder. If you have Photoshop on other machines in your office repeat the process on all those computers as well. To use the Workflow Action 1. Use Bridge to open the image you re going to process. If the image is a RAW file make sure you ve preprocessed it in Camera Raw. 2. Open the Actions palette Window Actions and click the small palette menu in the upper righthand corner. Choose Doug s Actions he didn t invent them just recorded them under that heading . Several new Actions will appear in the palette which are self-explanatory. Choose Workflow Layers and click the Play button forward arrow icon at the bottom of the Actions palette. 3. Faster than you can blink all the new layers will appear. Select the Background Layer and choose the Spot Healing brush. Make sure the Sample All Layers box is checked. Now spot out all the zits trash stray phone lines and dust marks. The spotting will all appear on the clear layer just above the Background layer. 4. Select the Burn .