Lessons
Class Introduction
04:52 2What Are Actions and Why Should You Use Them?
06:22 3Best Practices with Actions
07:33 4Creating the Teeth Whitening Action
24:02 5Create a Toned-Down Highlight Action
12:04 6Create a Customizable Action
11:47 7Demonstrating the Portrait in a Pinch Action
06:24Lesson Info
Class Introduction
I just wanted to touch a little bit on what I dio and who I am and how I kind of got my start. Um, I am a professional retouch er based out of Washington, D. C. I do a lot of skin and beauty work. If you go on my website, I think it's really important to show the before and the afters of the images. I think it's important for education sake, and I think it's also important for like, just self esteem steak. Well, you know of young girls growing up in today is today's climate, if you will. So yes, so you can always go on. And unless that I've been told not to by a client, um, you're gonna be able to see that before and after eso I actually mistakenly majored in photo shop. I was, uh, I like to call it. I, um, was a digital art major, So I learned photography. I do a little bit of photography on the side as well, but I learned photography through photo shop instead of through actual, like photography classes, because the because the photography program at my school that I went to was actu...
ally still film based. And so I was frustrated cause I knew that, you know, everything was going to digital. So how could I actually learn something that might help my trade? So I learned a lot of the photo shop, um, and and instead of the photography stuff, So that's kind of where I got my got my start. And I love translating Photoshopped to people into layman's terms so that everybody can understand that I think that that's really, really important. And I want you guys to be able to use photo shop and not be, you know, not be scared of Photoshopped either. So, um, so that's why I try and teach, and I call it translating Photoshopped. So, um, so what I believe in is enhancing the natural beauty of your clients while not going overboard. I think that's really important. And then, um, one of my other mantra is working smarter, not harder. I think it's important anything that I teach I want to make sure has some kind of that concept in it, so there's no reason for you to do 10 steps if you can actually do it in three. The 10 steps are just going to make you end up pulling your hair out and become frustrated. Um and so So if I can teach you how to use Photoshopped better and easier, you're more. You're more likely to stay in it and love it more and learn it more. I guess so. I wear a shark fin on my head. Hence sharks pixel. I usually only wear this for the introductions because, you know, might get distracting halfway through. Everybody's like, Why is there this shark fin on her head anyway? So So we can get started with today's class again. We're doing, uh, actions incorporating actions into your portrait workflow. So eso I want to just take a lot of time on the front and to explain, like, what actions are, why you should use them. And also like, what's important about, um, about, like, the best practices for actions because a lot of the times, if you're creating an action, you may have something go wrong like you create this action you're like, Oh, yeah, that's awesome. And then you try and run it and it gives you this error message like the make command is not, you know, available and you're like, Well, what am I doing? I'm trying to save time by creating these actions, and now these actions aren't working on any of the images other than the one that I ran it on. So I think best practices. Even though it's kind of like a little bit boring, it's really important if you're going to create actions that actually work, right? So that's why I'm going to do that kind of stuff on the front end, and then we'll get into creating actions a little bit, like maybe 25 minutes in, and that couldn't think so. I'm gonna take this. How many of you, um, use actions? Can I just Okay, good. How Maney have created their own action. Okay, good. All right. So, um, what, you're going to learn today? Like I said, what? Our actions? Why should you use them? How to create an action, how to create a customizable action as well. And then at the end of the class, I want everybody to stay tuned because I'm going to do something that I call my 92nd retouch, and that's going to be actually incorporating so many such a large in depth action into doing my portrait retouching that I can actually get the time that I spend retouching a portrait down to 90 seconds.
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Ratings and Reviews
Amy Vaughn
I was already a regular action user before this class, edited other people's actions and dabbled with creating a few of my own. Somehow, I still wasn't thinking about just how many of those repetitive adjustments I make across images that I could be automating. Kristina's class was great for making me think about how much more I can be doing with actions than I was, and I've already noticed a difference with my editing speed since I started applying her suggestions. This is one of those classes that seemed like a simple lesson at the time, but it's having a huge impact on my daily workflow.