Exchanging Photoshop Action Files

cletus

Is there an easy way to exchange Photoshop Action (.ATN) files with other dgriners? I'd like to be able to either attach an action file to a post, or at least put a link to the action file in a post.

cletus

cletus wrote:

Is there an easy way to exchange Photoshop Action (.ATN) files with other dgriners? I'd like to be able to either attach an action file to a post, or at least put a link to the action file in a post.

I guess I should clarify one thing. I realize that if I had an action file up on the web I could put a link to it in a dgrin post. The problem is that I don't have a convenient place to put action files. So part of my question is - where is a good place to put action files to make them accessible over the web?

wxwax

Cletus, save me the time of looking it up - what does the action file show/do? Is it merely a record of each step in processing an image?

cletus

wxwax wrote:

Cletus, save me the time of looking it up - what does the action file show/do? Is it merely a record of each step in processing an image?

Short answer is yes.

An Action File actually contains a set of Actions. Each Action is a series of steps that were recorded while working on an image. An Action isn't necessarily a complete record of every step performed on a particular image it's just a sequence of one or more steps. Also once an Action is recorded it can be edited by removing steps, adding new steps, or reordering the steps. They're a pretty powerful tool.

pathfinder

cletus wrote:

Short answer is yes.

An Action File actually contains a set of Actions. Each Action is a series of steps that were recorded while working on an image. An Action isn't necessarily a complete record of every step performed on a particular image it's just a sequence of one or more steps. Also once an Action is recorded it can be edited by removing steps, adding new steps, or reordering the steps. They're a pretty powerful tool.

In Kelby's book on PS for the Digital Photgrapher he suggested recording an action to enlarge your image 10% which I did in PS 7 - so to enlarge an image I just press whatever Keystroke I recorded and bam bam bam 110% 121% 133% 147% - whatever until you have the enlargement you need .

Nice suggestion Cletus - might be useful for all of use to have this available on dgrin.....

wxwax

Sounds like a macro.

ian408

wxwax wrote:

Sounds like a macro.

Exactly.