Create a Customizable Action
Lesson 6 from: Incorporating Actions into your Portrait WorkflowKristina Sherk
Create a Customizable Action
Lesson 6 from: Incorporating Actions into your Portrait WorkflowKristina Sherk
Lesson Info
6. Create a Customizable Action
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
Create a Customizable Action
let's talk about creating a customizable action. Obviously, we did a little bit of that right now in the last example. Um, but let's talk about creating an action. I'm just gonna flatten this because I know that if I don't, I'm gonna have troubles. Okay, Um, we want actions to work on multiple images and be able tow work well, on an image on multiple images, Basically what I just said. So, um, we don't want an eye color pop action toe on Lee Work on blue eyes we want and I a better way to create an eye color pop action to just pop that I color would be if it worked on any color I out there because everybody's different. Okay, so if you were a beginner creating actions, you may create multiple actions for somebody with blue eyes for somebody with brown eyes for somebody with green eyes. But I want to kind of teach use one of those intermediate steps of actually allowing the action to do that for you. But let's think about it. Looking at an image and saying this person has green eyes. Th...
at's something that you need your brain for. So How are we going to incorporate that into an action that we create some that's that's our next our next endeavor. So again we'll start with our ad action. There are new action icon, and we're going to name this I color. Uh, pop, we're going to save this in our creative Live folder and go ahead and press record. And then the first thing that we're going to dio is to create an empty layer. Okay, add the new layer icon will call this eye color. All right? And then the next thing that we want to do is give ourselves a little note, and that note is going to come from our actions. Fly, oh, menu and it is going to be insert stop. So we want to tell ourselves that in this next step, we we want to fill the area with the correct I color of the client that's in the That's in the image. All right, so let's write ourselves a little note. Insert. Oh, insert reminder Note. Phil. Next area. Phil. Next area with area with exaggerated Who can spell exaggerated for me? E uh x a g e r a t e d that one. Always. I get to the e and then I'm like, Oh, crap, um, exaggerated version of the subjects I color and then we're going to choose to allow would continue can, Let's go ahead and say, OK. Yep, We get we get it. Go ahead and press. OK, so that's our stop. And then our next option is going to be to insert the Phil. We we we want to fill this layer. Okay, So edit. So instead of doing it that way, we want to make sure that we're using the correct way when creating an action. So we're in shoes, insert menu item, and that is gonna ask, which menu item would you like to insert? And we come into edit, We choose Phil, and then we go, OK, okay. So that's gonna fit. That's going to bring up the fill dialog box when we play the action. It's not gonna bring it up right now, but it will in the future. All right, so that's that's going to fill this layer with color. Hypothetically, once we move forward, let's click on eye color. We want to change the blend mode of this eye color layer from normal to overlay. Okay. And then again, just is before we want to add a black mask option. Click the mask button to hide that behind the black masks. We only painted in over the irises of where we want them where we wanted to go. And now we compress. Stop, See? Yep. Okay. Did everything all right? Moment of truth again. Got our eye color pop. Let's go ahead and play it. Now look at this note that's popped up. I saw a note pop up and I was like, No, not again. Um, so this is the note that I actually put in there myself. Yeah, that's how much my memory has just landed with this pregnancy break. Anyway. So, Phil, next area with exaggerated version of the subject's eye color. All right, let's go ahead and hit. Continue. And then it brings up our fill dialog box. So now I can choose contents and I can choose color. And then I can say she has green eyes. So let's go into our greens here and let's pick something like a nice green color to put in there. We'll go ahead and press OK, press okay again and then nothing happens because it's hidden behind a black mask. But now we need to use our brain right to come in here. Use the brush tool. Let's make sure we're painting. Let's paint with a little bit less like maybe 20% opacity. And then we can kind of, like, let it build up little by little, make our brush a little bit bigger by using the bracket keys and then we can add that in. That's 27%. That looks pretty insane. All right, so we've added it in. Now, there's no problem at all because remember, it doesn't matter if your if your ah action is heavy handed because you can always customize how much of the action is actually showing by the opacity Slider. Okay, so we've Scudder before and thereafter. All right, so you can see how we added just a little bit of that green color to the to the eyes of our subject. But I'd be remiss if I didn't give you an action or train you on how to create an action that not only works on somebody with green eyes, but that also works on somebody with, um with blue eyes with brown eyes with whatever. Right? So again, I'm flattening this image because I don't want to run into any issues. I've got my eye color pop layer here. Uh, action. My eye color Pop action here. Go ahead and press play. Fill the next area. Yes. OK. And now we can choose colored and we can choose blue can go hand press. Ok, Okay. Again usar brush tool, Come in here. And I'm using the same action to work on blue eyes, Green eyes, brown eyes, hazel eyes Whatever. Okay, again, capacity down. Okay. Before After before after. All right. Do we have any questions? You also use that to change blue eyes to hazel or purple. Is that another? Ah, yeah. Let's do that. I don't know. Let's try. Let's try. Do I have your consent to screw up? Yes. All right. We got our eye color pop. We got our, um, blue eyes here. Let's see if we can change them to brown. Let's press what's going on. Oh, I have to select. I have to select the action before it will allow me to play it. All right? Yes, Phil. Okay. But here when color. What's the opposite of, um, Blue? What's gonna make this? I brown it's actually gonna be something, like a little bit more amber that's gonna make this. I look a little bit more brown hypothetically in my brain. This is going to actually work. OK, so let's go ahead and press, OK, OK, again. And now let's see. Please don't throw me out of the cool club with this other work. So, yeah, you just have Teoh kind of think about the color, the color theory, like, have a color real up and be like So I want blue to end up Brown. What do I have to put in there to make it? There's some math that goes on triangles. Yeah. Yeah, instead of actually just going with brown because then you're gonna have brown and then the blues gonna make it less brown. Okay, Cool. All right. Any other questions? It takes time to create an action after the actions created. Does it take the same amount of time, or does it take that long to run the action when it's actually used her will around much faster? No. Totally. Yeah. It's gonna run so much faster And that's really what the beauty of actions is is if you take the time you take the five minutes to create the auction on the front end. It happens in the blink of an eye every single time you use it in the future. So if you use it on images, you took five minutes to create it on the front, and but it doesn't take any time to actually run it then then you're basically taking those images, and you're saving five minutes per image. So it that's kind of what the power is behind them. With that you were talking about the skin color highlights that you would make one for maybe darker skin. Would you do this? If you use this a lot, would you do it for eye color? Also like this in my brown eye pop, this is my blue I pop. So we did an I pop that would work on any color eso that we wouldn't have to create different actions for different eye colors. But if you had, if you had clients with lighter colored eyes and then you had clients with darker colored eyes, then then That's when I would create two different actions for it. Because because the color we've we've worked at that into the action. Teoh, allow us to choose whichever color this action is going to run with. If once you've created an action, you can then copy that action and modify it rather than creating a new action from sketch. Yeah, um, I thought that there was a, uh I I think you could take your eye color pop, and you could just drag it to the new action icon. And it will create a copy for you. Yeah. Yeah, you know, opening up, double click. Edit it. You know, each one of these things you can kind of delete and change if you want. You remember when I did the before and I just recorded I continued to record from the action
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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.