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Photo Credit Action

Now, let's say that I would like to have an action. Make a decision for me where I don't want the action toe always be the same. What I'm gonna do here is open to images. And what I'd like to do in these two images is I want to end up putting, let's say, a photo credit in the image. But if the image is square, I'd like the photo credit to be centered at the bottom of the image in If the photo is horizontal instead, I want to be in the lower right corner. Well, how do you do that in action? Because in action just repeats whatever it is you do. Well, here's how you do that. If I go to the actions panel first, I need to make my individual actions. So in this case, I'm not actually gonna go through the full process because I don't want to waste too much of your time. But what I'll do in this case is I'm gonna have a do antique color if the interest square and I'm gonna have it do that Contours, um, tracing if it's not square and therefore you'll see how it's done which you need to do is cr...

eate two separate actions, one that would be applied if it meets a particular condition in one that would apply instead if it doesn't meet that condition. So I'm gonna create a brand new action here, and I'm gonna call it Square versus wrecked meaning rectangle. I'm gonna hit record. And then I'm gonna go to the side menu of my actions panel and I'm gonna choose Ah, Joyce called insert Conditional. Now, when I choose insert conditional this top menu gives me all the choices I could use. These are all the questions I could have Photoshopped ask about this document to control how it deviates in applies one action versus another. And so right Here's a choice is document is square, So I'm gonna have a check of the document is square. And then if it is square, I'm gonna have it de saturate the edges or whatever one of these No, let's do antique color. If it's square and if it's not square, then it's gonna do what's down here now. I could leave that set to none in therefore, this action called antique color, would only apply if the document is square. And if it wasn't square, it would do nothing or I could add a separate step in my action right after it. That asked another condition. But for now, I'm gonna come over here and say that the contours action should be applied. If it's not square, I'm going to click, OK, and then I'll hit Stop. So Onley thing this action has is an if statement in that. If statement is saying, if it's square, play one action and if it's not, play another. So now I'm gonna apply it to this particular document now. I wasn't I haven't double check this document. I'm assuming it's square, but it might not be absolutely square. It could be like almost square, and so I'm not sure for certain it's going to work, but if it does, it's going apply the anti color action if it thinks that square it did not. What that means is, if I choose, undo enough times here. If I go to my image menu and I choose image size. If you look at this, it's not a perfect square, Do you see the two numbers are not identical, so I could crop this image and make it perfectly square. I might do that using the canvas size screen campus guys, either ad space or take space away to your image in here, I'll make sure that it's perfectly square. That's gonna crop out a little bit of my image. So now it should be exactly square. Now. When I hit play, I get my antique color action. If I switch to a different document, this one's rectangular I hit play on the same action, and I don't get the same result. Instead, I get the trace Contour action, and so that is a conditional. That's where you can ask a question about the image and dependent on the answer. It will use different settings, and these are the questions that could be analysed. Her asked to control which actions applied. So it could be that I haven't action that does things to see. And why can images It converts them to RGB in. So I could have this the first step in action be an if statement that says, if it seemed like a then play in action, where all does is converted to RGB and if it's not seem like a it does nothing. It just keeps the action continuing. Ah, and all sorts of other things, like when we had things were retouching out telephone lines. If I was able to make that as an action, when I talked about retouching, I said, It's best of it's done in 16 bit mode. Then if you have any other actions that would be best in that mode, the very beginning, the action put in a step that says Insert conditional and say If it's a bit, then just have a separate action where all that action does convert to 16 bit. And, um, then it would be if eight bet it runs an action that converts to if else said it to none and then just have additional steps in your action, which is what you truly wanted the action to accomplish. So it's only the beginning that would end up checking to see what mode it's in and would convert if needed. So that is called a conditional

Class Description

Lessons

1. Introduction To Adobe Photoshop 2020
2. Bridge vs. Lightroom
3. Tour of Photoshop Interface
4. Overview of Bridge Workspace
5. Overview of Lightroom Workspace
6. Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents
7. How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020
8. Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders
9. Developing Raw Images
10. Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs
11. How to Save Images
12. Using the Transform Tool
13. Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
14. Selection Tools
15. Combining Selection Tools
16. Using Automated Selection Tools
17. Quick Mask Mode
18. Select Menu Essentials
19. Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
20. Align Active Layers
21. Creating a New Layer
22. Creating a Clipping Mask
23. Using Effects on Layers
24. Using Adjustment Layers
25. Using the Shape Tool
26. Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool
27. Masking Multiple Images Together
28. Using Layer Masks to Remove People
29. Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky
30. Adding Texture to Images
31. Layering to Create Realistic Depth
32. Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
33. Optimizing Grayscale with Levels
34. Adjusting Levels with a Histogram
35. Understanding Curves
36. Editing an Image Using Curves
37. Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
38. Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode
39. Editing with Blending Modes
40. Color Theory
41. Curves for Color
42. Hue and Saturation Adjustments
43. Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment
44. Match Colors Using Numbers
45. Adjusting Skin Tones
46. Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw
47. Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
48. Retouching with the Clone Stamp
49. Retouching with the Healing Brush
50. Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
51. Extending an Edge with Content Aware
52. Clone Between Documents
53. Crop Tool
54. Frame Tool
55. Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools
56. Paint Brush Tools
57. History Brush Tool
58. Eraser and Gradient Tools
59. Brush Flow and Opacity Settings
60. Blur and Shape Tools
61. Dissolve Mode
62. Multiply Mode
63. Screen Mode
64. Hard Light Mode
65. Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes
66. Smart Filters
67. High Pass Filter
68. Blur Filter
69. Filter Gallery
70. Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
71. Combing Filters and Features
72. Select and Mask
73. Manually Select and Mask
74. Creating a Clean Background
75. Changing the Background
76. Smart Object Overview
77. Nested Smart Objects
78. Scale and Warp Smart Objects
79. Replace Contents
80. Raw Smart Objects
81. Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
82. Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects
83. Panoramas
84. HDR
85. Focus Stacking
86. Time-lapse
87. Light Painting Composite
88. Remove Moire Patterns
89. Remove Similar Objects At Once
90. Remove Objects Across an Entire Image
91. Replace a Repeating Pattern
92. Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel
93. Remove an Object with a Complex Background
94. Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes
95. Warping
96. Liquify
97. Puppet Warp
98. Displacement Map
99. Polar Coordinates
100. Organize Your Layers
101. Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss
102. Layer Style: Knockout Deep
103. Blending Options: Blend if
104. Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image
105. Layer Comps
106. Black-Only Shadows
107. Create a Content Aware Fill Action
108. Create a Desaturate Edges Action
109. Create an Antique Color Action
110. Create a Contour Map Action
111. Faux Sunset Action
112. Photo Credit Action
113. Create Sharable Actions
114. Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1
115. Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2
116. Image Compatibility with Lightroom
117. Scratch Disk Is Full
118. Preview Thumbnail