ABSTRACT

This is a must for the serious Photoshop user! Power, Speed & Automation explores how to customize and automate Photoshop to increase your speed and productivity.  With numerous step-by-step instructions, the authors-two of Adobe's own software developers!- walk you through the steps to best tailor Photoshop's interface to your personal workflow; write and apply Actions; and use batching and scripts to process large numbers of images quickly and automatically.  You will learn how to build your own dialogs and panels to improve your production workflows in Photoshop, the secrets of changing keyboard shortcuts and menus, and ways to tune your system for optimal performance.  Writing new processes using JavaScript is also covered, as well as leveraging Variables with data sets. Learn how to get more work done? more easily and quickly? with this essential guide!

*This book can be used with any version of Photoshop through CS6!*

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

Who What Where Why How or, Rather, Why Who How What Where

chapter one|30 pages

Customizing: How You Work in Photoshop

Changing the User Interface for Your Work Style and Speed

chapter two|29 pages

Customizing: How Photoshop Works for You

Specifying Presets and Settings

chapter three|10 pages

Optimizing: Your System for Photoshop

Tuning for Performance

chapter four|29 pages

Duplicating: Your Tasks in Photoshop

Recording What You Do So It Can Be Done Repeatedly

chapter five|18 pages

Repeating: Tasks on Many Files

Setting Up and Applying Batch Processing with Actions and Droplets

chapter Six|23 pages

Repeating: Tasks with External Data

Working with Variables and Data Sets

chapter Seven|22 pages

Building: Your Own Panels

Introduction to Using Configurator

chapter Eight|21 pages

Scripting: Photoshop

Learning the Tools to Start Scripting Photoshop

chapter Nine|16 pages

Customizing: Photoshop-Created Scripts

Beyond the Photoshop DOM with the ScriptingListener Plug-in

chapter Ten|21 pages

Controlling: Documents

Learning to Work with Documents and Filenames

chapter Eleven|18 pages

Adding: Scripts to Your Panels

Advanced Configurator

chapter Twelve|21 pages

Scripting: Complex Workflows

Working with Events, Files, and Folders and Organizing Your Scripts

chapter Thirteen|20 pages

Building: Custom Dialogs

Using Scripting to Build Your Dialogs

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion