Photoshop Actions Tip!!

I love the Actions Tab in Photoshop.  Now that I use it everyday, I don't think I can live without it, (or make websites)

This guy

One complaint I have is that it's a pain to edit an action.  What if I changed my mind and want the thumbs to be 45x45 instead of 50x50?  Do I have to do this all over again?  

I thought so until today.  The answer is so simple, no one will ever guess.  

You just add more actions to your existing action:  

Select the action you want to edit, and hit the record button and do what you need to do to update your action.

1 & 2 : Old Action String that created a layer with "©2008 Ikumi Kayama."

3&4: New Action String that hides the 2008 and show 2009 that I typed.  

That's it.  Kind of too easy?  

CMYK blues

I look back at my graduate school days at Hopkins, and all I can remember is the wonderful people, one-of-a-kind experience, and overall, such a great time. 

What?  I wept in my mind during that time?

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oh yeah.

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Printing.

We had a top notch (in my mind) Epson color  printer that did a wonderful job printing.  I used to curse at it, but it did print out 60+ pieces in full color in few nights for the graduate show at the end.  

Of course, we are not supposed to expect that a printout will be an exact duplicate of the screen view.  However, I did spend many hours erasing "smudges" and "random lines" that did not appear on screen, but appeared on the printout.  grrr.

It happened again.  No big surprise.   But it was a surprise!  What do you mean there is an unwanted line on my printout!!  It's not on the screen!

Top image is the printout

Bottom image is the screenshot

Oh yeah.  

So I 'think' the printer didn't like the fact that the montage was a true montage of cmyk, rgb, and greyscale tiffs composed in Illustrator.  I made the fix, and hopefully we won't see that blasted line again.  

Lessons learned:

1. Choose one mode.  

2. Always do a test print. 

3. Don't get upset at people at Kinko's.  

If you leave a comment, you are spectacular!

What do you think?  any comments will be appreciated.   Is it too girly?  Now the circle with the turtle looks too loud.  (because colors can totally talk).

Little note: the studiokayama website is not done, you will be disappointed at how not cool it is.  Instead, go to here and I promise you that you won't be sorry.  

Thanks a bunch!