Danka Dear Fine Art Photography
 
The other day I was editing photos to put up on MySpace and it got so repetitive with doing the borders and adding the signature plus it all adds up and takes time. I’ve used Actions before but never thought to use it for these tasks. So much easier, and it sure speeds up the time taken to prepare photos.

Here’s what to do:

Step 1. Open your photo

Step 2. After you’ve completed editing, resizing etc.  Go to Windows, and select ACTIONS (or press Alt +F9)

Step 3. On the far right top corner you’ll see a little arrow. Click that and it brings down a drop menu.

Step 4. Select NEW ACTION and give it a name, then click on Record. (It will record all you do from now)

Step 5. Select the text tool and place the cursor where you would normally include your copyright and signature. (It doesn’t matter if you vary the positioning, you can move it later)

Step 6. Choose your font, and color and type in your signature and copyright info.

Step 7. The Actions window should still be open, at the very bottom left hand corner click on the Stop button.

This will stop the recording and your new action will have been created.

Now every time you want to add your signature, all you do is open the Actions window, select your signature action you  created and click on the play button at the bottom of the Actions window. It will automatically insert it for you in the position you recorded it. Reposition as required.

You may do the same with adding your borders or any other repetitive tasks you do. If wanting to record an action for adding your borders at Step 5, just replace that with what you would normally do. The way I add them is to go to Image and Canvas Size, choose the background color to black or whatever you like, and  n increase the width and height to your desired size.

Hope that helps. It sure does save on time!

Enjoy!
Danka
 


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