As you start to become more advanced with your photoshop skills, you’ll undoubtably begin to create selections and layer masks on a consistent basis and depending on the type of adjustment you intend on performing your selection may need refining to better suit the outcome you are trying to achieve.
When I referred to the refinement of your selection, I’m really talking in terms of definition and how sharp the outer edge of your selection will be.
Image resizing can be relatively simple and straightforward especially when working within software applications like Photoshop. However, you need to understand the fundamentals of resizing to avoid degrading the quality of your images.
Photoshop’s image resizing is located in the main navigational menu underneath “Image / Image Size”. Upon opening the dialog window you will be presented with the pixel dimensions of your document or image including its file size.
Once you understand the basic concept behind photoshop actions and how to create them, you’ll quickly begin to come up with very creative ways of automating specific tasks and processes in your existing digital workflow.
But in order to exact the full potential of photoshop actions you’ll need to learn how to apply actions to entire folders of imagery.
In this article I’m going to reveal the tools that myself and other professional photographers have successfully used to become not only better photographers, but also to become better business owners.
Obviously there are hundreds if not thousands of different tools on the market that you can use to get the job done, but what I hope is that this list is insightful whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned professional.
One of the most power features in Photoshop is “actions” and if you’ve never heard of actions before don’t worry… Essentially actions provide a means for automating menial, repetitive tasks and processes within Photoshop, which in effect increases your productivity.
Out of the box, Photoshop already comes with a set of default actions that you can experiment with, but where the really power lies is in creating your very actions based on what your needs are as a photographer.
