When I mention automation to most photographers, their eyes instantly glaze over and I know that I've lost them.  What is most frustrating to me, is that these people would benefit greatly from learning to eliminate the repetitive, mind numbing, processing that Photoshop requires to produce consistently excellent images.

This is a short program describing some of the automation techniques available in Photoshop and Bridge, with an emphasis on consistency and reducing image processing time.  Adobe has gone to great lengths to make their applications flexible and programmable, so that they can reduce the amount of time spent performing repetitive tasks.  While it is true that some of the automation functionality requires programming experience, a great deal of the automation can be achieved through simple menus and by recording a process on one image, and applying it over and over again.

When automation is applied to your daily workflow, it can help you to enforce similar processing on a series of images, yielding far more consistent results, and achieving them in a shorter time frame.

When applied to special effects, you no longer have to remember a complex series of actions that produce the desired effect.  Record it one time, and apply it again and again, with the same results every time.

In a matter of just a little more than an hour, everyone should have an idea where they can improve their Photoshop experience and learn how to spend less time editing, and more time shooting.

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