From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
784 Recording an action to play all actions
From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
784 Recording an action to play all actions
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to take a closer look at that action that I showed you how to play in the one-minute movie, and I'm also going to show you how to create a kind of parent action, that plays a bunch of other children actions, and that way, if you edit any of the children, the parent updates automatically. All right, so here we are, looking at a portrait photo from the Dreamstime image library, about which you could learn more at dreamstime.com/deke.php. And a couple of things to note. This guy obviously has some fairly large pores in his face, but otherwise, his skin is very smooth, and that is going to give you the best results, by the way, so if your portrait does not have absolutely smooth skin, you may want to retouch the image in advance. Now, my actions depend on there being an additional layer above the portrait, and so that layer, in our case the dreamstime layer, needs to be selected for everything to work out. Next, go up to the Window menu and choose the Actions command in order to bring up the Actions panel, and you may just see this one folder, Default Actions, and nothing more, in which case, twirl it closed. We're not going to be working with those guys. And then click on the flyout menu icon, and choose Load Actions, then you'll see that I'm offering you more than one collection of actions. But the one I want you to select now is Five-step hedcut, then click the Load button in order to load a folder full of actions, as we're seeing right here. And notice, they go from part 1 down to part 5. We also have this guy, reset patterns, that's just something I created to help myself out during the development process, so you don't need to worry about it. All right, so what we're going to do is play each one of these actions independently. So I'll select part 1, and then I'll click on the Play button, and notice, at a point, you're going to be prompted to save a file, and it's this blurry file in the background. It's what's known as a displacement map. You need to keep the file the same as it is. So it needs to be called Hedcut map.psd, so you need to save it as a native PSD file. Just go ahead and click Save. If you're prompted to replace an existing one, just click Yes here, on the PC, or Replace on the Mac. All right, so that takes care of part 1. Next, I'll click on part 2, and click the Play button. This is going to go by lickety-split, because all its doing is creating a couple of tile patterns. All right, this guy, part 3, is the big one. It's actually applying those patterns and wrapping them around the contours of the guy's face, using that Hedcut map.psd file that we saved just a moment ago. Now, notice, even though we have these wonderful lines, we don't have any outlines around the details of the guy's face, which is the purpose of part 4, right here, so I'll go ahead and select it, and click the Play button, and we end up with these big, chunky lines. And this is where things are going to look a little weird if the skin has any kind of roughness, or if there are a lot of wrinkles, they're going to show up as big, thick lines, which is why I'm not using a picture of my own face. All right, now, I'll go ahead and select part 5, which infuses the image with color, and we're going to end up with this final effect here. All right, that's great, but what if you want to do everything with a single action? Then you would create a parent action, and let me show you how. I'm going to go ahead and close this file. I'm not going to save the changes. We're going to be creating it over and over again. And then, I'll click on the Hedcut folder, and I'll click on this little page icon to create a new action, and I'll go ahead and call this guy All hedcut, like so, and I'll click Record. And now, all you want to do is, once again, play these actions. And you can do that by Control-double-clicking, or Command-double-clicking, on the action name, that's another way to work. When you're prompted to save the Hedcut map.psd file, go ahead and do so, and replace the original, and you should end up with this grayscale version of the image. Next, I'll Control-double-click, or Command-double-click, on part 2. Then I'll Control- or Command-double-click on part 3, in order to play it. So notice that we're just playing each one of these actions, and things are going to be truncated if you're looking at a narrow version of the panel. But if you go ahead and expand it, you can actually see that we're playing parts one, two, and three, sequentially. That's very important. You can't play 'em out of order. Things would go absolutely kerflooey if you do. Next, I'll Control- or Command-double-click on part 4, and then I'll Control- or Command-double-click on part 5, in order to play it. All right, now, I'll just twirl close All hedcut, so that we're not seeing its contents. I'll go ahead and close this final hedcut file, click No, that's going to be Don't Save on the Mac, not to save it, because we are now going to recreate it. But actually, I've made a terrible mistake. Notice that I'm still recording, as indicated by this red circle. I should've stopped by now. So I'll just go ahead and click on this square in order to stop recording. Then I'll twirl All hedcut back open, and you'll see that I have this final option, Close, and it's probably set to, sure enough, Saving: no. And so what this would do is, every time you create your hedcut, it would go ahead and close it without saving, which rather defeats the purpose, after all. So I'll go ahead and get rid of that step by clicking on the trashcan icon, which is going to produce an alert message, or if you want to skip the alert, you Alt- or Option-click on that icon. All right, now, twirl it closed once again, and I'll go ahead and select this guy, and then I'll click the Play button. Again, I will be prompted to save this one file. That's a necessity, I'm afraid. So I'll just go ahead and save over the original, and then, notice that all these various actions are playing sequentially, and in the end, we end up with this full-color effect, which is looking absolutely great. All right, I'm going to once again close it. This time I'm not recording this action. I'll just, once again, close the file, and click No, or Don't Save on the Mac. Now, what if you want to work with a flat image file? Then we could go ahead and make some modifications here, to the children, that will be reflected by the parent. So I'll go up to the File menu, and choose the Open command, and I'll locate this guy right here, Flat image.jpg, and click Open. And so a couple of differences here. First of all, we don't have that dreamstime layer. In fact, we don't have any layers. We just have a flat background, here, inside the Layers panel, and second, the file is saved to the JPEG format, which is going to become an issue in just a moment. All right, so notice what happens if I try to play that All hedcut action again. Right away, I'm going to get this error message, saying, hey, the command Delete is not currently available. Do you want to continue? No, you don't. Any time you get an error like this, you want to stop, because it's very likely there's some big problem. And so, notice, here, in Hedcut part 1, which Photoshop has expanded automatically, there is this step, right here, called Delete current layer. You want to get rid of it, because after all, there is no dreamstime layer, which means there is no current layer to delete. And so just select that guy, and Alt- or Option-click on the trashcan icon to get rid of it, and then I'll show you that there's one more issue here. No need to sit there and play the entire thing to find out what the problem is. And so I'll just go ahead and twirl open Hedcut part 5, and then, notice right here, we've got Delete current layer once again. It's doing the same thing. It's deleting the dreamstime layer. So select that guy, and Alt- or Option-click on the trash icon, and then you can go ahead and twirl that guy closed, and you can twirl All hedcut closed, as well. Now, you're going to have to close a couple of files here. Close this guy, Faux hedcut. You do not want to save the changes. And then, actually, you want to leave this guy open. Never mind. We just wanted to close one file. And you may recall, at the outset of this movie, I told you we want to just have one image open. If I didn't say that, I meant to say that. We just want to have one image open for this action to work reliably. However, because this guy's the second image, it's not the first one I opened, everything's going to work out just fine. And so, I'll once again select All hedcut, then I'll drop down to the Play button, and click on it, and again, I'm going to be prompted to save the file. You do not want to save it to the JPEG format. It will not work. And so go ahead and switch to the native Photoshop format, that is PSD, and otherwise leave the filename alone. Click Save. Go ahead and save over the original, and then let Photoshop do its thing, and a few moments later, you should see the final version of the hedcut, and it should look just as it did before. All right, now, if you like, you can go ahead and rename this action group something like Flat hedcut, and then click on the flyout menu icon once again. Choose Save Actions, and then you would just go ahead and save over this guy, if you like, or you can save it under a different name. Absolutely does not matter. And that way, you can use your actions on a different system, or share your actions with other Photoshop users. So I'll just go ahead and click Save, and save over that original file. And that's how you create an overarching parent action that plays a bunch of children actions, and updates automatically to reflect their changes, here inside Photoshop.
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Contents
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767 Mandala patterns in Photoshop CC 20191m
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768 Painting a free-form mandala pattern9m 5s
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769 Painting mandala-style dot patterns6m 56s
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770 Coloring your mandala pattern7m 48s
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771 The final full-color mandala6m 27s
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772 Illustrator CC 2019 new preview mode1m 1s
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773 Illustrator CC 2019 presentation mode3m 21s
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774 Global edit in Illustrator CC 20196m 30s
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775 Applying a global edit from the control panel4m 8s
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776 Freeform gradients in Illustrator CC 20198m 29s
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777 Freeform gradients: Points versus lines8m 10s
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778 Freeform gradient limitations6m 29s
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779 Crop and develop a great white shark8m 54s
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780 Sharpening your great white shark6m 11s
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781 Low vibrance and high saturation9m 3s
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782 Vibrance, saturation, and sharpness9m 11s
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783 Actioning a full-color hedcut in Photoshop1m
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784 Recording an action to play all actions9m 37s
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785 Draw something, color the outlines8m 46s
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786 Combining multiple works of line art7m 3s
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787 Group your line art, clip to the group4m 9s
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788 Coloring outside your line art in Photoshop6m 32s
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789 Flip horizontal view in Photoshop CC 20191m
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790 Creating a White Walker in Photoshop1m 59s
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791 The White Walker begins9m 25s
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792 Giving a guy a digital shave in Photoshop3m 58s
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793 Carving deep wrinkles or scars into skin8m 37s
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794 Shading the White Walker’s deep-set brows6m 21s
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795 Creating pale, lifeless lips in Photoshop5m 57s
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796 Giving your White Walker glowing blue eyes10m 46s
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797 Adding some creepy lifeless pupils6m 40s
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798 Adding a cold and gloomy background12m 18s
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799 Adding cold and brittle snowflakes6m 25s
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800 Using the Transparency Shapes Layer option5m 29s
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801 Combining a radial filter with a range mask8m 35s
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802 Flipping a photograph in Camera Raw6m 20s
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803 An actual dream effect, in Photoshop14m 37s
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804 Augmenting your Photoshop dream8m 45s
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805 Applying distortions as Smart Filters6m 37s
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806 Combining distortions with blend modes10m 5s
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807 Drawing a 24-sided star in negative space12m 48s
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808 Making your star a repeating hex pattern8m 27s
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809 Shading your star pattern in Illustrator6m 57s
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810 Creating a gradient pattern in Illustrator4m 31s
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811 Making one pattern fade into another6m 23s
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812 Welcome to my seamlessly repeating summer1m 35s
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813 Drawing a cubical gobstopper in Illustrator14m 55s
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814 Creating a pattern of gobstoppers7m 23s
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815 Aligning your many gobstoppers5m 54s
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816 Blending line textures in Illustrator12m 58s
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817 Combining object blends with a pattern8m 40s
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818 Carving cubical holes into cubical objects9m 52s
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819 Nesting gradients inside a pattern5m 36s
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820 Drawing 3D isometric arrows in Illustrator7m 33s
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821 Positioning the tips of your arrows7m 17s
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822 Filling in the gaps in a repeating pattern8m 50s
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823 Drawing cartoon teeth aligned to the hair5m 50s
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824 Drawing a triangular cartoon eye8m 6s
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825 Adding windows to the houses pattern10m 46s
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826 Creating a perfectly tessellating pattern4m 32s
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827 Op art experiment 4: Triangle tunnels6m 58s
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828 Expressing your triangles as a hex pattern7m 18s
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829 Adding color to your triangle tunnels7m 55s
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830 Recoloring your triangle tunnels3m 20s
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831 Creating rainbow gradients with blends6m 18s
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832 The downside of using blends in patterns3m 35s
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833 Drawing an impossible trident in Illustrator9m 49s
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834 Shading an impossible trident with gradients4m 3s
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835 Painting paths with opposing gradients13m 51s
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836 Adding impossible shadows in Illustrator6m 42s
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837 Drawing an impossible hex object14m 8s
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838 Creating impossible latticework5m 46s
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839 Painting like Joan Miró in Adobe Sketch9m 46s
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840 Painting a watercolor wash background8m 23s
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841 Signing your artwork like Joan Miró4m 17s
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842 Opening your Sketch artwork in Photoshop9m 1s
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843 Enlarging your Miró to poster size11m 5s
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844 What if Joan Miró had met Jordan Peele?14m 10s
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845 Coloring your terrifying Miró/“Us” scene11m 47s
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846 Painting a Rorschach background9m 22s
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848 What to do when Content-Aware Fill fails?10m 4s
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847 Finishing your “Us” artwork in Photoshop10m 35s
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849 Hand turkey 20191m 56s
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850 Tracing your actual hand on an iPad10m 6s
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851 Drawing a highly articulated hand9m 50s
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852 Adding color to your hand-drawn hand12m 33s
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853 Painting your hand-drawn fingernails9m 3s
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854 A hand becomes a Thanksgiving hand turkey9m 6s
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855 Painting the turkey’s tail feathers13m 30s
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856 What’s wrong with this drop shadow?11m 14s
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857 Introducing Photoshop for the iPad13m 6s
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858 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 29m 13s
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859 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 310m 17s
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