Photoshop: Speed up the Retouching!
Written by admin on April 9th, 2007 in Photoshop.
I showed in an earlier posting the steps I take in Photoshop to work on an image. I follow these steps to get an image ready for printing and selling at the early stages of my processing workflow. There may be other steps that I take including cropping, sharpening, masking, etc. that could take hours, days, or even weeks. When an image must look its best, I don’t mind taking the time to make it as good as possible. But, if you have a hundred holiday pictures that you want to get printed NOW you need to make some compromises. These compromises come in the form of using automated setting in Photoshop. To speed things up even faster, we’ll be using the batch processing capabilities. First, you’ll need to head over to http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm and download Kent Christiansen’s quick retouch batch action and install it (CS and CS2 only). READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!!!! Now open Photoshop and in the file browser, select the images that you wish to process. Click on Automate > Batch and select the Quick Retouch for Batch under the Set dropdown then the CS/CS2 Quick Retouch in the Action dropdown. Select “File Browser” as your source and check the “Suppress Color Profile Warnings” checkbox. Select the folder to save the new images in by clicking on the “Choose” box. Select “Folder” under the Destination dropdown and check the “Override Action “Save As” Commands” Select the naming convention that you wish to use and then click “OK” to get things started. It won’t take long to go through all of your images and get them into “snapshot” ready print format. Below is a before and after of an image that I ran through the batch. Now you are ready to save them to a CD to bring to your local Walgreen’s (or upload them) and get your family pictures FAST!!!! Ray
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