The POWER of Photoshop DROPLETS #98

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Hi I'm Glyn Dewis, and in this video I want
to show you how you can really speed up your

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work flow in Photoshop, using something called
Droplets.

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Okay, so if you've used Photoshop for a while
you're more than likely aware, or at least

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have heard of something called Actions.

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Actions in Photoshop basically allow us to
record a series of steps, and then be able

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to do them again at any time in the future,
but instead of having to do the steps again,

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we can just click once on our "Play" button.

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Now, just for the purpose of demonstration
in this video here, what we're going to do

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is have a bit of a refresher first of all,
on Actions.

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Let's just say that before I send images over
to the publishers, I have to perform a hue

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and saturation adjustment on them, where we
colorize them, and really boost up the reds.

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I've got an image open on screen.

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What we'll do is we'll just go to the window
menu, let's just click on the "Window menu",

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and we choose "Actions" to bring up the Actions
panel.

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Now, in here you can see there's 2 folders,
again this is just a refresher here.

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2 folders, one called "Default actions", and
then one that I've called "Glyn's actions".

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In the default actions there's loads here
that come already with Photoshop regular tasks

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that you might want to perform, in my folder
here called "Glyn's actions", there's 2 actions

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here that I perform regularly.

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We're going to create a new action here, and
we're going to save it in my folder called

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"Glyn's actions".

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We'll click on the "New action" icon here,
and we're going to call it, "Boost reds".

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Now, when I click "Record", everything I
do now, every step that I perform is now being

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recorded.

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We'll say we need to go to "Image adjustments:
hue and saturation", this is the pretend task

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that I need to do a lot.

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We then click on "Colorize", we'll really
change up the hue there, and we'll boost the

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saturation as well.

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It's really obvious that we have to do something
here, then we'll click "Okay".

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Then I want to click the "Stop" button here.

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Now, if we just open up this little thing,
you can see all this here, all this information

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just here, this is listing all the steps that
I've just done.

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If I rewind here, let's just imagine we've
opened a new image, all I would need to

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do to perform that, is click on the action
that we want to use, and then click on the

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"Play" button, and bang!

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You can see it's been done.

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Now, it might be that you want to perform
this on just one image, but then again, it

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might be that you have a whole folder of images
that you want to use it for.

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Now, that's going to be something called "Batch
processing", and we can do that within Photoshop,

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by going to the "File" menu, choosing "Automate",
and then we have an option here called "Batch".

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This brings up a dialogue box where we can
choose what action we want to use, what folder

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we want to perform it on, and then where we
want to save it.

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We also, if you maybe someone who uses Bridge,
you could then go to the "Tools menu", "Photoshop",

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and then again we've got "Batch", that will
then bring up the same dialogue box back up

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in Photoshop.

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That's all well and good, but the idea behind
this, is to really speed up our work flow.

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If we're having to click on menus and go into
different dialogue boxes, that's adding more

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steps to the work flow, and it's going against
what we're trying to do here.

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That's not really what we want to do.

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Now, what we can do though, is use these thing
called Droplets that I mentioned.

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What we're going to do is this, we're going
to go to the "File" menu, and then we're going

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to go to "Automate", and then we're going
to the third option down called "Create Droplets".

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Now, it brings up a similar dialogue box to
that one that was for batch processing, but

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the first option over on the left hand side
here, if I just highlight that for you there,

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says, "Save droplet in".

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Now this is where you want the droplet, the
icon that we're going to use, where do you

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want it to be?

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My option is always to have them saved on
the desktop.

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In fact, you can see just 2 of them, just
here.

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That one there, and this one here, these are
droplets.

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I like to save them on my desktop,
it's called "Reds boost", and we'll click

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"Save".

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The next section down, it says, "Play what
action that you want to perform for this droplet".

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Well, it's in my "Glyn's actions" folder,
and it's going to be the one called "Boost

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Reds", and then we've got "Destination".

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Now, this is where you can either get Photoshop
to do what I'm going to do now, which is open

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the images, perform the hue and saturation
change, save them, and then close them in

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the same folder.

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It might be, that you have a lot of original
pictures, you need to perform a task to them,

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once it's actually done that, you want to
save them in a different folder, so you've

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still got the originals there.

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You can also do that, within here just by
saying to choose different folder names.

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It's really, really handy, but I'm going to
leave this one here to save and close and

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click "Okay".

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Now, let's just dive over to my desktop again,
and now we can see if I just zoom in, over

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on the right hand side here, you can see there's
this little icon, this is the droplet icon,

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and it's called "Reds boost".

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The great thing about this is, I've also got
a folder of images here.

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These are all the images I need to now send
over to the publishers, and there's quite a

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few in there.

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I don't need to open them individually, all
I'm going to have do now, is just grab the

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folder, drag it, and drop it, hence the name
droplet, onto the droplet icon, and then let

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go.

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Now it looks like nothing's really happening,
but all all those actions that appear on those

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images, are being performed in the background.

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The great thing now, is it allows you now
to carry on doing the more creative stuff.

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You might carry on doing some writing, you
might go to your eMails, you might need to

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go and find something on the internet, whatever,
it doesn't matter.

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All those repetitive tasks that needed to
be done, they're all being done for you.

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Just to show you that now, if I just double
click on this little folder here, you can

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see all the images in there, let's just zoom
in.

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have had the hue and saturation change done
to them in super quick time.

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You can see that there, is droplets and how
they can really speed up your work flow.

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Now, you can see that on my desktop here,
I already had 2 droplets on here already,

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let's just zoom in to show you those.

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One called Loxley color, and one called Rocky
Nook.

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Now, the Loxley color one, that's the printing
app that I use.

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There's always something that I like to do
to my images to get them to look perfect.

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The color is always going to look great anyway,
because of color collaboration and what have

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you.

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I always find I need to boost the brightness
in them by 20%, before I send them to be printed.

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When I've got a load of images, may be out
of Lightroom in a folder, drag them onto

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the Loxley color droplet, and then send out
to be printed, and they come back perfect.

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The Rocky Nook one here, the publishers,
every single image that goes into my new book,

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has to be converted to CMYK, and also has
to have a bit of a color profile change as

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well.

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There's a lot of images may be 90 in each
chapter.

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All I need to do, drag them onto that droplet,
then it does it for me in the background,

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while I get on with the more important stuff.

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There you go, that's droplets and how they
can potentially save you a huge amount of

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time, by speeding up your work flow, and handing
over the repetitive tasks to Photoshop, for

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you to get on with the more creative stuff.

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