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the number buttons at the bottom of the
miscellaneous section are programmable
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buttons allow you to make your own
actions part of the TK panel if their
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repeated steps in your workflow that you
do often it can be advantageous to
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record the steps as an action into one
of these buttons then simply pressing
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the button will play the action you
recorded initially pressing a button
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gives you a popup message with
instructions for the reprogramming
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process but I'll take you through it
step by step to program a button start
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by opening Photoshop Actions panel and
then find the action set called decayed
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v4 actions and expand it this is the
only action set for the v4 panel that
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isn't programmed right into the panel
itself inside the action said you'll see
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the actions for each of the six numbered
buttons the red checkmark she seat next
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to my button number one and but number
two actions indicate that I've already
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assigned custom actions to these buttons
so I'll demonstrate with the number
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three button but you can begin assigning
custom actions with button number one
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start by opening the action of the
numbered but that you want to program
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and making sure that it is the active
action next uncheck the stop command in
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the action this will disable the stop
command so the action you record can run
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now click the begin recording action
button to begin recording your action
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everything you do in Photoshop from here
on will be recorded when I'm finished
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developing an image I place all my
master adjustment layers into a group
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then I add a lightning for print
adjustment layer outside this group that
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enables me to prepare the image for
printing if I were to record all those
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steps into inaction in the number three
button
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here's what that would look like I would
begin by typing alt or option plus the
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comma key to select the very bottom
layer in the Layers sac type all tour
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option plus the right square bracket key
to move up one layer then I would tie
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alt or option + Shift + period to select
all the layers above that in the layer
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stack and next I would type either
control or command G to place all of
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those selected layers into a group and I
would name their group master just
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having trouble typing layers and then
finally outside of that later I would
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add a levels adjustment layer
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and I would set the levels adjustment
layer to screen and I would then turn
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off the visibility of that later and
that completes my action when all the
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steps of your action or completed don't
forget to click the Stop Recording
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button otherwise you'll continue
recording steps into your action that
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you don't want now I can close the
Photoshop Actions panel then I'll go to
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the history panel and back up in the
history to be for a record of the action
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and now I can test the action to see if
it works all I have to do to run the
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action is click the number three button
and with that single click I have now
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placed all of my layers inside my master
adjustments group and have added the
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lighting for print later outside that
group and it really should have named it
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that in the action now I want to print
this image on my home printer I could
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simply turn on this lighting for print
later and then adjust the opacity of
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that later so is just lightning as much
as I think it needs maybe around 20% and
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I can also adjust the midterms of that
adjustment a little bit I didn't wanna
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be too flat
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like I said the sky is the limit for how
complex your actions can be more steps
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you record interaction the more time it
will save a few programa into one of the
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buttons if you ever want to reprogram a
button you can simply go into that
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button
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hand highlight all of the steps in the
action that you want to remove and then
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click on the delete button and all the
steps will be deleted and you're ready
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to record a new action into that button
one of the really cool things you can do
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is you can play a previously recorded
action as a step and one of the actions
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in a button to me show you what I mean I
have an action that I use all the time
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for automatically placing my watermark
on horizontal image is sized 1050 pixels
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on the long side here's an image that
I've already signs to 1050 pixels wide
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if I want to record my watermark action
into the number three button I just make
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sure I'm on the number three button and
click the begin recording button and
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then I'd go find my watermark action and
here it is right here so while I'm
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recording the action for the number
three button I would just select the
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1050 wide text action that have
previously recorded and then just click
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play and now that action has been played
right into that number three button and
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I can now click the Stop Recording
button to stop recording that number
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three action and then I'll close my
action panel and again go into the
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history and back up to before I added
the watermark so I can test out the
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action so now when I click the number
three button its gonna run that action
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and there it is so if you create your
own Photoshop Actions customizing these
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six programmable buttons to accomplish
your frequent Photoshop task can help
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improve your efficiency and personalize
the v4 panel to your specific workflow