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Installing the Best Workflow color settings - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Installing the Best Workflow color settings
In this exercise, I am going to show you how to establish what I believe to be the best color settings inside of Photoshop and the other Creative Suite applications. Now color settings is Photoshop and Adobe's word, really, for color management policies inside the various programs. They help ensure that you achieve consistent prints so that what you see onscreen is more or less what you get from your printer. But even more important they help establish consistent color onscreen between the different applications and on the Web as well. Now by default, these color settings are set up for consumers. Basically Adobe is using the consumer color space out there, which is sRGB. And I believe we can do better than that. We ought to set Photoshop up for working professionals and that's what we're going to do here. Now I have this file that I've provided for you called Best Workflow CS5.csf, and it's available as usual inside of that 00_setup folder right there. There it is, and you may see a…
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Contents
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Your creative range continues to expand1m 46s
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The Avatar project so far2m 38s
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Painting on a photograph7m 50s
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Adding texture and depth6m 14s
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Simulating chalky white paint7m 23s
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Masking and placing an image7m 20s
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Upsampling and Lens Blur5m 9s
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Blending blurry elements3m 48s
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Making a Smart Object6m 46s
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Placing an image as a Smart Object3m 22s
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Blending away a background5m 56s
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Applying Smart Filters4m 34s
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Creating a glow with Lens Flare3m 45s
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Blending and masking a glow5m 3s
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Using the image to select itself1m 53s
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Introducing masking6m 32s
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Making an alpha channel6m 54s
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Using the Calculations command6m 48s
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Add, Subtract, Offset, and Scale5m 54s
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Prepping an image with the Dodge tool6m 55s
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Fixing mistakes before they get too big6m 32s
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Painting in the Overlay mode5m 51s
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Exaggerating and selecting flesh tones7m 38s
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Smudge, Median, and the Blur tool6m 59s
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Masking low-contrast details6m 7s
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Creating a flesh-and-clothing mask5m 45s
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Masking and compositing the foreground5m 26s
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Finessing the final composition7m 39s
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Connecting the dots1m 40s
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The Pen tool and the Paths panel6m 31s
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Drawing a straight-sided outline6m 25s
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Editing a path outline6m 36s
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Adding and editing smooth points5m 35s
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Creating vector masks with the shape tools4m 59s
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Building a complex outline from shapes4m 26s
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Subtracting and transforming shapes6m 45s
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Cloning, flipping, and combining shapes8m 58s
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Roughing in non-symmetrical paths7m 41s
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Finessing a complex outline9m 15s
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Masking a layer effect8m 26s
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Isolating an image element6m 8s
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Smooth points and control handles9m 3s
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Stretching curved segments7m 49s
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Using the Rubber Band option9m 33s
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Drawing smooth points with the Pen tool6m 59s
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Shading an isolated object3m 45s
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Drawing cusp points7m 13s
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Setting points in the pasteboard9m 57s
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Using the Convert Point tool6m 42s
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Everything you need to know about blending1m 45s
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Photoshop CS5's blend modes7m 21s
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Cycling between blend modes6m 15s
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Darken and Lighten and their derivatives6m 3s
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The blend mode shortcuts8m 6s
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The Multiply and Burn modes4m 28s
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The Screen and Dodge modes6m
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How opposite blend modes work8m 24s
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Why Multiply darkens and Divide lightens5m 23s
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Cleaning up a client's bad art5m 3s
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Dropping out a white background5m 56s
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Blending inside blend modes8m 3s
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Overlay, Soft Light, and Hard Light6m 26s
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Vivid, Linear, and Pin Light (and Hard Mix)6m 35s
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Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, and Divide7m 34s
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Great uses for the Difference mode6m 18s
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Promising uses for the Divide mode9m 6s
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Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity7m
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Blending an inverted layer3m 32s
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The "Fill Opacity Eight"7m 25s
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Making bad blend modes good5m 16s
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Making a knockout layer6m 53s
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Blending in the CMYK mode8m 3s
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Overprinting black text8m 29s
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Using the Luminance slider5m 24s
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Parametric luminance masking6m 20s
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Adjusting the behavior of luminance effects10m 8s
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Smart Objects = protective containers1m 35s
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Placing an Illustrator graphic6m 29s
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Vector copy and paste options6m 56s
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Applying Puppet Warp to vectors8m 9s
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"Gluing" vector art for Puppet Warp5m 50s
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Warping art onto the surface of an image8m 7s
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Blending a Smart Object4m 30s
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Blurring and blending a Smart Object6m 8s
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Making changes in Illustrator5m 57s
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Creating "true clones"7m 18s
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Double-flipping text4m 44s
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Applying effects to multiple layers3m 24s
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Updating true clones in one operation7m 36s
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Editing JPEGs as Camera Raw objects5m 49s
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Creating a double-exposure effect7m 15s
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Masking and shading transitions7m 47s
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Applying and repeating Camera Raw edits6m 9s
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Copying vs. cloning a Smart Object5m 18s
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Flipping a Smart Object and its mask3m 42s
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Adjusting multiple Camera Raw clones3m 53s
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Text that inverts everything behind it5m 34s
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This time, "smart" means dynamic1m 37s
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Introducing Smart Filters6m 28s
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Traditional High Pass sharpening5m 17s
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Smart High Pass in the Lab mode7m 57s
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Sharpening a high-frequency image7m 46s
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Retroactively reducing noise7m 31s
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Which filters are Smart Filters?6m 20s
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Shadows/Highlights as a Smart Filter4m 37s
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Nesting one Smart Object inside another7m 11s
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Drawing a mask from a nested Smart Object8m 7s
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Better Shadows/Highlights inside Lab9m 16s
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Tempering saturation values in Lab6m 59s
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Filtering live, editable text9m 2s
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Enhancing filters with layer effects4m 33s
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Applying a filter multiple times4m 59s
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Creating a synthetic star field7m 7s
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Making a stucco or drywall pattern6m 28s
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Land, sea, and clouds8m 27s
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Photoshop's advanced painting tools2m 3s
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Canvas texture and brush libraries6m 40s
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Painting with a predefined custom brush9m 21s
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Dissecting a custom brush11m 9s
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Designing and using a custom brush4m 54s
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Saving and loading brush presets5m 27s
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The ten styles of bristle brushes9m 47s
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Size, Spacing, and Angle7m 2s
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Using the Bristle Brush preview7m 53s
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Bristles, Length, Thickness, and Stiffness6m 53s
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Stylus tilt and mouse behavior5m 25s
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Stroking a path outline with a brush4m
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Troubleshooting a stylus5m 49s
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Introducing the Mixer Brush7m 22s
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The Load, Mix, and Wet values5m 1s
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Cleaning and loading a brush6m 26s
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Shading a piece of graphic art6m 34s
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Shading with color7m 53s
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Mixing a photographic portrait6m 11s
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Tracing the fine details in an image5m 52s
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Crosshatching and brush size5m 53s
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Covering up and augmenting details7m 36s
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Painting in hair and fabric5m 54s
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Painting and scaling very fine hairs8m 7s
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Adding texture with the Emboss filter8m 31s
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Exploiting a "happy accident"2m 46s
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Artificial intelligence that works1m 22s
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The Auto-Align Layers command7m 25s
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The Auto-Blend Layers command3m 54s
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Masking auto-aligned layers4m 50s
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The Geometric Distortion setting6m 44s
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The Seamless Tones and Colors checkbox4m 8s
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Creating the best possible layer mask9m 18s
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Auto-blending depths of field5m 54s
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Finessing masks, accepting imperfections6m 29s
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Shooting and downsampling panorama images5m 54s
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Introducing the Photomerge command6m 40s
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Evaluating the Layout settings6m 47s
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Loading, aligning, and blending with Photomerge5m 36s
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Tracing and extracting seams7m 18s
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Adding a masked element into a panorama5m 55s
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Simplifying and correcting a panorama5m 58s
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Smart Filters and nondestructive cropping6m 43s
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The most mysterious of mysterious topics2m 29s
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Introducing HDR Toning6m 43s
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Reigning in clipped highlights5m 53s
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The Local Adaptation options9m 5s
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Nondestructive editing with HDR Toning8m 22s
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Using the HDR Toning Curve7m 2s
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HDR Toning vs. Shadows/Highlights6m
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Merging multiple exposures7m 14s
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A first look at HDR Pro6m 24s
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Removing ghosts, correcting backlighting7m 11s
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Generating and editing an HDR comp7m
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HDR rendered to completion5m 19s
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Processing hundreds of files in no time1m 43s
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Creating an action set6m 37s
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Making an action7m 7s
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Stop, Delete, and Record7m 12s
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Add, Undo, and Rerecord6m 40s
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Playing and testing an action6m 31s
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Playing and editing a specific operation6m 39s
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Permitting the user to change settings4m 58s
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Explaining an action with a custom stop5m
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Batch-processing multiple images7m 22s
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Adding a Save As operation6m 34s
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Creating an action to save web graphics7m 58s
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Batching two actions into one7m 15s
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Saving and loading actions5m 30s
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