How To Run Photoshop Actions in Photoshop Elements 3, 2 and 1 Actions are procedures (sometimes referred to as scripts, or macros) built in Photoshop that allow you to play back a series of events. In Photoshop, actions are built by simply recording the steps you make during corrections. Just turn on the Record feature, and Photoshop records your steps as you make them, and stores them in the actions palette. The same actions that are recorded for Photoshop can often be used in Photoshop Elements. A wide range of actions are available for free on the web for Photoshop that accomplish everything from practical correction (like Hidden Power tools) to helping render interesting effects (creating a frame, or changing an image to look like a drawing or watercolor). All versions of Elements to date (Elements 1, 2 and 3) have several different ways that actions can be played. This article shows you how to attempt to run pre-recorded actions created for Photoshop (6, 7 and CS) using Elements (3, 2 and 1). 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. a. b. c. d. e. f. g. a. b.
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Change Eye Color In Photoshop Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photo Retouching tutorial, we’ll learn a very simple technique for changing someone’s eye color in a photo using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer! Of course, there’s no shortage of ways to change colors in an image with Photoshop, but whether you know which color you want to use or just want to play around and experiment, a Hue/Saturation image adjustment makes changing eye color easy, fast and fun! Here’s the image I’ll be using: The original image. Let’s get started! Step 1: Zoom In On The Eyes Before we begin, let’s make it easier to see what we’re doing by zooming in on the eyes in the photo. Select the Zoom Tool. With the Zoom Tool selected, click and drag out a selection box around the eyes. Drag out a selection box around the eyes. Release your mouse button, and Photoshop fills the document window with the area you selected: Photoshop zooms in on the selected area. Step 2: Select The Lasso Tool Select the Lasso Tool. Select “Colorize”.
Imagenomic Soft Focus Glow Tutorial Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll look at how to quickly and easily add a soft focus and glow effect to a photo, which also happens to do a nice job of boosting the image’s contrast and color saturation. I’ve been using this technique with my photos for years and it’s still just as popular today. Whether you’re a wedding photographer, nature photographer or you simply enjoy taking photos of family and friends, give this effect a try and see if it doesn’t make your images look a bit more magical. Here’s the photo I’ll be working with in this tutorial: The original image. And here’s how it will look after adding our soft glow: The final result. Let’s get started! Step 1: Duplicate The Background Layer With our image newly opened in Photoshop, we can see if we look in our Layers palette that we currently have one layer which is the Background layer. Photoshop’s Layers palette showing the original image on the Background layer. The Layers palette now showing two layers.
My Photoshop Effects Photoshop vs Elements That’s a simplification, in that Photoshop Elements isn’t just a cut down Photoshop, it really is a different program. That will hopefully become clear below. The differences between Photoshop CS4 and CS4 Extended are much smaller relatively speaking. If you decide to get all or part of a Creative Suite bundle, you should consider which one would suit you better. I like Adobe’s take on it: "If you work in film, video, multimedia, 3D, manufacturing, architecture, engineering, medicine, or science, Photoshop Extended is for you." A short and sweet summary. The easiest way to start to look at the differences is to look at the things that Photoshop has but Elements doesn’t. CMYK and LAB Color Modes One of the reasons Photoshop Elements isn’t an option for professional graphical development is that it doesn’t support the image color modes that are used for professional print work. Channels and the Channels Palette Smart Objects Layer Masks and Quick Mask Mode Masks are really useful.