Create a Desaturate Edges Action
Lesson 108 from: Adobe Photoshop: The Complete Guide BootcampBen Willmore
Create a Desaturate Edges Action
Lesson 108 from: Adobe Photoshop: The Complete Guide BootcampBen Willmore
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Introduction To Adobe Photoshop
04:05 2Bridge vs. Lightroom
06:39 3Tour of Photoshop Interface
18:21 4Overview of Bridge Workspace
07:42 5Overview of Lightroom Workspace
11:21 6Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents
08:19 7How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020
05:10 8Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders
13:09Developing Raw Images
30:33 10Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs
09:12 11How to Save Images
03:37 12Using the Transform Tool
04:48 13Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
06:03 14Selection Tools
05:55 15Combining Selection Tools
07:37 16Using Automated Selection Tools
17:34 17Quick Mask Mode
05:07 18Select Menu Essentials
21:28 19Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
13:00 20Align Active Layers
07:29 21Creating a New Layer
06:15 22Creating a Clipping Mask
03:02 23Using Effects on Layers
11:24 24Using Adjustment Layers
16:44 25Using the Shape Tool
04:39 26Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool
04:39 27Masking Multiple Images Together
15:15 28Using Layer Masks to Remove People
10:50 29Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky
10:04 30Adding Texture to Images
09:11 31Layering to Create Realistic Depth
05:35 32Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
05:29 33Optimizing Grayscale with Levels
10:59 34Adjusting Levels with a Histogram
03:37 35Understanding Curves
06:18 36Editing an Image Using Curves
18:41 37Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
07:19 38Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode
07:14 39Editing with Blending Modes
08:04 40Color Theory
05:59 41Curves for Color
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13:33 44Match Colors Using Numbers
16:59 45Adjusting Skin Tones
05:25 46Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw
10:52 47Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
07:53 48Retouching with the Clone Stamp
06:51 49Retouching with the Healing Brush
04:34 50Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
13:07 51Extending an Edge with Content Aware
03:42 52Clone Between Documents
13:19 53Crop Tool
10:07 54Frame Tool
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04:43 71Combing Filters and Features
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20:04 73Manually Select and Mask
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21:19 75Changing the Background
13:34 76Smart Object Overview
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09:55 78Scale and Warp Smart Objects
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06:55 80Raw Smart Objects
10:20 81Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
12:59 82Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects
05:42 83Panoramas
13:15 84HDR
11:20 85Focus Stacking
04:02 86Time-lapse
11:18 87Light Painting Composite
08:05 88Remove Moire Patterns
06:11 89Remove Similar Objects At Once
09:52 90Remove Objects Across an Entire Image
05:46 91Replace a Repeating Pattern
06:50 92Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel
10:27 93Remove an Object with a Complex Background
07:49 94Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes
12:27 95Warping
11:03 96Liquify
14:02 97Puppet Warp
12:52 98Displacement Map
10:36 99Polar Coordinates
07:19 100Organize Your Layers
11:02 101Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss
02:59 102Layer Style: Knockout Deep
12:34 103Blending Options: Blend if
13:18 104Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image
06:27 105Layer Comps
08:30 106Black-Only Shadows
06:07 107Create a Content Aware Fill Action
08:46 108Create a Desaturate Edges Action
07:42 109Create an Antique Color Action
13:52 110Create a Contour Map Action
10:20 111Faux Sunset Action
07:20 112Photo Credit Action
05:54 113Create Sharable Actions
07:31 114Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1
10:23 115Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2
07:57 116Image Compatibility with Lightroom
03:29 117Scratch Disk Is Full
06:02 118Preview Thumbnail
02:10Lesson Info
Create a Desaturate Edges Action
now in this image, what I'd like to do is make the edges of the picture less colorful than the center of the picture. And therefore your I might be drawn to the more colorful areas in therefore drawn the middle of the image and not the edges. So let's create a brand new action, and I'm gonna call this de saturate edges click record in order to get something only happened in the edges of the picture. I'm gonna make a selection, So I'm gonna choose the selection tool. I'm gonna click near the upper right, but a little ways away from the edge. And I'm gonna drag down here then, Alecko and I'd like the opposite of that because right now we have the center selected and I'd like the edge. So I'll go to the select menu and I'll choose inverse. Then I would like the edge of my selection have a soft edge on it. One way of getting a soft itches to go to the select menu and choose modify and then choose feather. The problem with that is there's no preview. So you're really guessing at what number...
to use the second method you could use is to go here to select and mask. There's all sorts of settings in selected mask. Then you could ignore all of them, except for this one down here called Feather. And if you brought that up, you should be able to start seeing a softer and softer edge like that and then click. OK, so now we have the outer edge of the photographs selected, and it has a soft edge. The next thing I would like to do is create an adjustment layer in the adjustment layer like to use is called vibrance. Vibrance gives you two sliders, the same two sliders we have for controlling how colorful things are when we're using adobe camera raw. And in this case, I'm gonna lower the vibrance to make the edge of the picture less colorful. Finally, so I can remember why I have that layer. I'm gonna rename the layer off double clicking layers name and I'll just call this de saturate edges, and that's all they want this action to do. So now, at the bottom of the actions panel, I'm gonna hit the stop button. And now let's inspect this to see if it's gonna be universally applicable was started. The top here is this set selection. I'm gonna open that up and I see that this selection is measured in pixels. And so that means the top edge of the of the selection will be 116 pixels below the top of the document. It will be 136 pixels from the left edge of the document. In the bottom will be this far from the the top in the left edge. That's not gonna work for any file size. What if I have a square document? If it tries to make a selection of that size, it's not gonna be a square selection. So I need to replace this step in my action with something that is universally applicable. And so, let's see. We can figure out what that IHS first. There's no way for me to convert this step into anything other than pixels, so I'm gonna have to replace it to replace a step in the action. All you need to do is click on the step within the action and then at the bottom of the actions panel, you'll end up hitting record. But before I do that, Let's figure out how we're going to improve that step. Well, the measurement system that's used for making selections when creating actions is whatever your rulers are set to. So if I come up here to the view menu and I turn my rulers on, I can see what they're set to and just looking at the numbers I can tell they're not inches. They've got to be pixels because they're going upto 1800. Um, you can change that measurement system when the rulers are visible by right clicking within the ruler. And if you look at the list of choices that are available, I see one choice that will end up making this work regardless of the size of the original document. And that is percent when I choose percentage. Now it's gonna think, What percentage of the full with the document did I move over before I clicked in what percentage of the full height of the document did I move down when I clipped? So now let's record a new step with the step would like to replace selected I'm gonna hit the record button. Then I'll use the marquee tool, and I'll go up here to where I'd like my selection to begin and I'll drag down here to where I'd like it to end and I let go. It just created a new step. Step appears directly below the step that I had selected, and I'll then hit the stop button. Let's expand that step and see if it's any better. Yeah, now it means I was 5% below the top edge of the document and I was 8.2% of the width over. And then here's how far I was over when I ended in how far down and right, So now I'm gonna just click on the step that came before that, the one that's measured in pixels and I'll drag it to the trash can. Then let's look at any of the other steps to see if they'd mess us up in verse. That's not specific to the document selected mask. Well, the amount of feathering I might need to be different on each picture, because if I have a tiny image, let's they have an image that's only one inch wide. Then I created this action on an inch that was 30 inches wide the amount of feathering that I dialed in might need to vary depending on the document, and I'm not able to set feathering as a percentage. So therefore, it can't just very like the selection. But what I can do is if you look at this step in my action, there's a little rectangle to the left right over there. And if I turn that on by clicking on it, that means when it gets to this step, ask me for a setting, which means bring up the actual interface for what was being used here. So I can choose that myself, and that's what that means. Let's go to the next one down and here it says that we're going to use an adjustment layer called Vibrance next one down and we're setting the virus that negative 49 and OK, we're making something visible, and then we're naming a layer. But none of this told me the names of specific layers like it was trying to switch to a particular layer, so I think this would be nice. The only other thing I might want to do is here, where it's setting the vibrance to negative 49 I could click right there and that would make it so every time I could manually dial in how much I want a lesson it. So I think that's what I'm gonna do. Let's test this action, click on its name. And first I'm going to get this image back to its original by choosing Revert. And then I'm gonna play the action. But hit the play button and it gets to the point where I need a feather and here I can just adjust it. If this was a smaller image, I could use a lower setting. I just click OK, and it should continue the action. And right away it asked me what kind of vibrant setting I want. Cool Click OK, and it finished so that action works fine.
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