I just love how Aaron think about what a viewer might wondering while watching his videos like " What if i want to change this setting later ?" and answer these questions. Phlearn Phorever ! Thanks Aaron !
You're mature, professional, funny, have a great knowledge of what you're doing, talk fluently... As far as I can recall, Phlearn is the best RUclips channel for Photoshop and photography in my subscribers list, which has a bunch of Photo(shop)(graphy) channels in it.
This is one of my favorite tutorials. Discovered something recently all you pros knew about - playing another Action within and Action. I wanted to make an Action that would resize my image, then add a watermark. Already had an Action for the watermark and didn't want to "re-invent the wheel." So I started the recording for resizing image, then I selected my watermark Action and click Play. It added the watermark. Stopped recording and ran the test. HUZZAHS! Listed in the Action was Play action "Watermark."
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The "select forward and backward layer" was a real life saving tip. I had gotten as far as to name the layers in the action, but that didn´t help when I had to repeat that action in the same document. Thanks so much!
Thanks to your tutorial I was able to create an action to flatten a PSD file, duplicate the background layer, crop the image to the dimensions specified by the user, sharpen with unsharp mask to the specifications of the user, and save a copy of the image as a JPEG with filename and location specified by the user. In addition I was able to insert stops to add messages to the user pertaining to cropping, image sizing, sharpening, and saving the image as a jpeg. Many thanks - this will be a game changer to my editing workflow. My next challenge is to modify the action to add levels and brightness contrast adjustments. I'm now a subscriber!
Any topic regarding photoshop is best explained and shown by Aaron - either paid or right here. The pro tutorials take it to a new level. This guys is the source for photoshop tutorials. Not really a need to look elsewhere.
This was a great help, I have found so much information tonight that has really helped me. I was trying to find the quickest way to stroke a path and delete it without it asking for confirmations all the time or having to change brushes. And found out you can assign the play action to a button on my intuos pen. edit> keyboard shortcuts>actions> play, and set the play shortcut you want then assign that to my pen. All done with one click now!! Thanks so much!
I thought I knew my way around Photoshop reasonably well, but you keep showing me cool new menus and features I've never touched. And you explain them very clearly! Thank you!
I gave up creating action months ago because I didn't use shortcut to select layer and everything was messing up, but you just saved my life. Sir You are always amazing. Thank You
That's the best explanation and demonstration of actions I've seen since I started using Photoshop many years ago. many thanks Aaron for another excellent episode.
Thank you. This was exxxxtremely! helpful to me. I was getting frustrated that my actions weren't acting as I wished them to act. You teaching style is excellent, engaging and fun to watch.
I can't believe I've been searching wrongly for a good tutorial Channel all over RUclips until now, You the greatest, thanks so much. I love your tutorials
Awesome, I made my own action previously but did not know about the double click with no specifics...you ROCK Aaron. I have been suggesting you to people in photo groups on FB.
Thank you vey much. I have been looking for a very thorough detailed tutorial on Creating Actions the right way and also how to add notes within an Action to no avail did I find one until I saw your tutorial in the RUclips search list. I am a Subscriber and I should know better by now if I want to learn something correctly that Phlearn is the number one place to go to. Again Thank you very much for making this tutorial and taking your time with being thorough. :)
I learned how to make an action, how to group items with in an action, warm up my photos and a different way of using high pass. Thanks teacher. Now we all need to give you an apple.
I´m really happy to see you teaching Photoshop Actions the right way! I´ve seen and downloaded so many actions out there which don´t work for me - the people just ignored the fact that not every Photoshop is in the english language. I was happy to see something new (the forward/backward layer trick) ´cause my "technique" is to name every layer individually. When I create actions I don´t want the people to fail because they don´t have a german Photoshop! Maybe I´m changing my style to the forward/backward thing ...
Dayum that shortcut to select the layer below and above change how I save some of my actions. I had issues with my frequency separation action but this fixed it. Thank you, Aaron.
Wow...thats so good; Ive gotta watch 10 more times to just absorb it all! Some real MAJOR LEAGUE NEXT LEVEL STUFF. Wish I had found this a long time ago.
I just wanted to thank you for the amazing tutorials, and tell you that I learned more by watching a couple of videos than in the 2 years I learned photoshop at school! You explain very well, and it's really easy to understand. Looking forward to see more awesome videos!
I've been watching your tutorials for the past whole week. Now I'm sharing Phlearn YT page to my friends with a reference GOD. :D Thank you so much for your time and effort, it means a world! Best of luck and keep these to the point tutorials coming! Regards from Serbia (not Siberia) :D!
Just a quick tip. If you create a new layer through the menu (not through a keyboard shortcut) you can name the layer as you create it. By giving it a specific name you'll easily be able to select it whilst recording an action with no conflicts. Selecting a previous layer is not always going to work on the more complex actions. Great tutorial though. Thanks.
Thoroughly enjoyed this lesson on actions. Than you Phlearn. Although I understood the basics, this has now given me a deeper knowledge which I can put into practice and use across many different images.
Thank you for your detailed tutorial on actions! I feel like I can begin to create what I want in an action rather than depend upon others and their actions!
The reason the Vignette action in the beginning did not work is because it says: Vignette (selection). Since you had no selection it could not Feather it and thus could not complete the action. Other than that: great tutorial, as always!
Very usefull video. When I have a good start of an action (without problems with layernames, etc), then I just copy it and record from there. So I never have to think about bad actions again. I am a big Phlearn fan, but who is not?! Greatings from Harry Kramer Holland.
Excellent! Actions have always been a little bit daunting to me... so I wouldn't even try to create them. Now maybe I will use them on a regular basis. Also, may I ask what app you are using to do your screen cast? I am thinking about using something like it to do website reviews for my web consulting business. You guys do such a great job of melding your video and screen casts together, I just wondered.
I love all your tutorials! I was just wondering if you can do a tutorial on how to touch up on senior people. For example, what we should and should not retouch on. Thanks!
Hey, I was trying to create a complex action and struggling with selecting specific layers and the action not-working. This video was exactly what I was looking for. I subscribed first thing the video was finished and am looking forward to seeing what other tutorials you've made!
I work in a studio in Egypt and i use actions a lot, i was wondering how to stop the action and set a new value in crop or selctive color and this help me a lot thanks very much for sharing.
Long time watcher first time commenter. Just a quick question, is there a keyboard shortcut to jump right to either the top layer or bottom layer? Rather than the (very helpful) move to previous or next layer shortcuts? Cheers Aaron.
Yes I make very very long actions for production work. Some times you have to select a path and deselect a path to make it work. Use keystrokes todays action was played on 300 files back from cutting out in india, some of the files had the background selected and some had the layer above selected so I used option +. to activate the layer on the very top of the image. The action then worked on files that either had the background selected or the one above the background selected. My actions resize and puts and image on own layer and creates a shadow then centres the image and so on, ends up with a shadow on a layer behind that has a mask and changes the swatch and brush tool to selectively brush in a shadow at the bottom of the image. Saves hours.
This tutorial was really helpful to me for understanding the actions language.... Though I have faced a new problem while creating some actions the other day. Please help on using brushes while recording action smartly....so that the same brush effect can be used on any image by playing that action. Thanks..
Love it! I think there are some Phlearn Pros that I want to go back and use them as templates for creating my own actions: my own sharpen actions from the Beauty Beetle and my own personal check layers action based on what I learned in A Dark Force!
I did just that also, well on the check layers. Mind I asking what layers you use for check layers? I use a selective color for saturation, black and white for luminosity, and a saturated color fill layer for colors. I can share the action with you if you want.
This made my day! First, a trailer about the upcoming film about Stephen Hawking. I actually saw the full trailer. Then your face! I really enjoy your tutorials, but the contrast between an epic trailer and your opening scene really made me burst into laugh! Thank you! Also, neat tutorial!
o. m. g. ...the action specific keyboard shortcuts! Why does Adobe keep secrets from us? Why did I struggle with this so long before coming to watch your video? :)
Really Really Cool :) Could u explain little bit about color. how to choose right color for projects . what is should keep my mind when i choose color ?
This is great stuff. I'm hoping to learn as much as I can about actions. My goal is to create a series of "logo mockups" which always have a bunch of actions. The other thing it always has is smart object transformations which include blurring, embossing, etc. Can you please do a video on advanced smart object transformations in the same style of this video? I loved it!
Can you do another photoshop action video for light and airy look? I've been watching a lot of RUclips videos for that style but I have yet to have seen a descent one. And every single video of yours seem to be more than just descent, more like perfect! :)
Hi The Video is very very helpful, thank you. Would you kindly consider making a short cut hand out or key so that we can reference all the short cuts your using. Thanks!
I was following okay up to the keyboard shortcuts and then you lost me. But I understood the theory behind it. I would love to see you expand on actions. How to manage them efficiently. Eg layer naming, layer colours, button mode etc. thanks for sharing :)
Hi Guys! The new website is awesome, but I can't find the "recommended gear" article and the "suggested readings" page. Could you help me? Great job Aaron! You're teaching me tons of stuff! Keep doing it!
I just love how Aaron think about what a viewer might wondering while watching his videos like " What if i want to change this setting later ?" and answer these questions. Phlearn Phorever ! Thanks Aaron !
You're mature, professional, funny, have a great knowledge of what you're doing, talk fluently...
As far as I can recall, Phlearn is the best RUclips channel for Photoshop and photography in my subscribers list, which has a bunch of Photo(shop)(graphy) channels in it.
Agreed!
This is one of my favorite tutorials. Discovered something recently all you pros knew about - playing another Action within and Action. I wanted to make an Action that would resize my image, then add a watermark. Already had an Action for the watermark and didn't want to "re-invent the wheel." So I started the recording for resizing image, then I selected my watermark Action and click Play. It added the watermark. Stopped recording and ran the test. HUZZAHS! Listed in the Action was Play action "Watermark."
The "select forward and backward layer" was a real life saving tip. I had gotten as far as to name the layers in the action, but that didn´t help when I had to repeat that action in the same document.
Thanks so much!
Thanks to your tutorial I was able to create an action to flatten a PSD file, duplicate the background layer, crop the image to the dimensions specified by the user, sharpen with unsharp mask to the specifications of the user, and save a copy of the image as a JPEG with filename and location specified by the user. In addition I was able to insert stops to add messages to the user pertaining to cropping, image sizing, sharpening, and saving the image as a jpeg. Many thanks - this will be a game changer to my editing workflow. My next challenge is to modify the action to add levels and brightness contrast adjustments. I'm now a subscriber!
Thank you Aaron and #Phlearn peeps! Exactly what I was looking for!!
*****
Any topic regarding photoshop is best explained and shown by Aaron - either paid or right here. The pro tutorials take it to a new level. This guys is the source for photoshop tutorials. Not really a need to look elsewhere.
This is one of the best photoshop tutorials I've stumbled upon. Thanks man, very easy to follow.
I love Phlearn for the simple reason of when I'm stuck on something, I come to RUclips and you guys never fail to have an amazing video to help!
I have two words 4 you , THANK YOU 🤗 . YOU'VE just made Photoshop a bit easier to use . 👍👍
Am learning a lot from you. Thank you. I sure will look at all your tutorials and see what I can buy for in-depth learning.
This was a great help, I have found so much information tonight that has really helped me. I was trying to find the quickest way to stroke a path and delete it without it asking for confirmations all the time or having to change brushes. And found out you can assign the play action to a button on my intuos pen. edit> keyboard shortcuts>actions> play, and set the play shortcut you want then assign that to my pen. All done with one click now!! Thanks so much!
Great tutorial.. not only learned more about actions but about not effecting colour when sharpening... thanks so much
I thought I knew my way around Photoshop reasonably well, but you keep showing me cool new menus and features I've never touched. And you explain them very clearly! Thank you!
I gave up creating action months ago because I didn't use shortcut to select layer and everything was messing up, but you just saved my life. Sir You are always amazing. Thank You
That's the best explanation and demonstration of actions I've seen
since I started using Photoshop many years ago.
many thanks Aaron for another excellent episode.
Thank you. This was exxxxtremely! helpful to me. I was getting frustrated that my actions weren't acting as I wished them to act. You teaching style is excellent, engaging and fun to watch.
I can't believe I've been searching wrongly for a good tutorial Channel all over RUclips until now, You the greatest, thanks so much.
I love your tutorials
Brilliant tutorials as always but the premium Tuts are well worth buying. I have learnt so much from Phlearn.
I love all your tutorials. Thanks for all your help!
I´ve been using Ps Actions for some time now, but never knew that it´s possible to create them in non specific way. Great tutorial !!! thanks Aaaron.
It's so easy to understand, when you put it this way, thank you
Awesome, I made my own action previously but did not know about the double click with no specifics...you ROCK Aaron. I have been suggesting you to people in photo groups on FB.
Thanks Aaron .... was seeking how to do exactly what you taught .... awesome man.
Thank you vey much. I have been looking for a very thorough detailed tutorial on Creating Actions the right way and also how to add notes within an Action to no avail did I find one until I saw your tutorial in the RUclips search list. I am a Subscriber and I should know better by now if I want to learn something correctly that Phlearn is the number one place to go to. Again Thank you very much for making this tutorial and taking your time with being thorough. :)
Thank you very much for your tutorials, it's made all the difference in knowing what I don't know in Photoshop.
I learned how to make an action, how to group items with in an action, warm up my photos and a different way of using high pass. Thanks teacher. Now we all need to give you an apple.
Thanks so much for this super clear rundown of action. Now I feel like an action figure so I subscribed!!
I´m really happy to see you teaching Photoshop Actions the right way!
I´ve seen and downloaded so many actions out there which don´t work for me - the people just ignored the fact that not every Photoshop is in the english language.
I was happy to see something new (the forward/backward layer trick) ´cause my "technique" is to name every layer individually. When I create actions I don´t want the people to fail because they don´t have a german Photoshop!
Maybe I´m changing my style to the forward/backward thing ...
Very easy to follow along and understand. Thanks for this. Cool video
+Phlearn Photoshop and Photography Tutorials where do i get the action? aaron stated it in the beginning.
ruclips.net/video/dJW0mq629bw/видео.html
Dayum that shortcut to select the layer below and above change how I save some of my actions. I had issues with my frequency separation action but this fixed it. Thank you, Aaron.
Wow...thats so good; Ive gotta watch 10 more times to just absorb it all! Some real MAJOR LEAGUE NEXT LEVEL STUFF. Wish I had found this a long time ago.
I just wanted to thank you for the amazing tutorials, and tell you that I learned more by watching a couple of videos than in the 2 years I learned photoshop at school!
You explain very well, and it's really easy to understand.
Looking forward to see more awesome videos!
Great presentation, great sound and visuals! Just a dam GREAT job! Definitely a must have Channel!!
I've been watching your tutorials for the past whole week. Now I'm sharing Phlearn YT page to my friends with a reference GOD. :D Thank you so much for your time and effort, it means a world! Best of luck and keep these to the point tutorials coming! Regards from Serbia (not Siberia) :D!
i learn at least 20 new things every time i see your videos
+Zhiona And you are a Kpop fan also? :)
You are simply awesome Mr A! Keep up the good work.
Just a quick tip. If you create a new layer through the menu (not through a keyboard shortcut) you can name the layer as you create it. By giving it a specific name you'll easily be able to select it whilst recording an action with no conflicts. Selecting a previous layer is not always going to work on the more complex actions. Great tutorial though. Thanks.
I didn't know about actions until now, cannot wait to try it out. Great tutorial :)
You are so good man ! Thanks a lot for all the tutorials ! Greetings from Romania !
This is soooooo cool and easy to follow. Thanks a million!
Thanks for your videos! I'm a newer user of Photoshop and have gotten so much better and faster at editing from watching your videos! Keep 'em coming!
Very cool. I don't know when i will usw this feature, but it's well explained. Thanks Aaron. You' re great
Thoroughly enjoyed this lesson on actions. Than you Phlearn. Although I understood the basics, this has now given me a deeper knowledge which I can put into practice and use across many different images.
Thank you for your detailed tutorial on actions! I feel like I can begin to create what I want in an action rather than depend upon others and their actions!
Nice! Answered all of my questions about creating actions.
Dude, you are AWESOME!!!! I can't top watching your videos....
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Tri this video
Amazing tutorial . Explained very well all the things needed for building actions. Great stuff . Thanks for such an informative lesson
You are the best. Easy to understand, easy to follow. You teach well!
Amazing Phlearn , thank you so much
I am addicted to yyour videos !!!
The reason the Vignette action in the beginning did not work is because it says: Vignette (selection). Since you had no selection it could not Feather it and thus could not complete the action.
Other than that: great tutorial, as always!
Wow, I've never seen so detailed tutorial. THANK YOU!
Very usefull video. When I have a good start of an action (without problems with layernames, etc), then I just copy it and record from there. So I never have to think about bad actions again. I am a big Phlearn fan, but who is not?! Greatings from Harry Kramer Holland.
agh Aaron makes photoshop seem so easy! so inspired! thanks Phlearn! :)
A lot better explanation than my basic photoshop learning class at school.
Excellent! Actions have always been a little bit daunting to me... so I wouldn't even try to create them. Now maybe I will use them on a regular basis.
Also, may I ask what app you are using to do your screen cast? I am thinking about using something like it to do website reviews for my web consulting business. You guys do such a great job of melding your video and screen casts together, I just wondered.
I just learned about Actions and...voila...you have a tutorial. Thank you!
Hello sir...U Are Awesome...I Wtching U r Tutorial When u Teaching Something Your Smile Make My Face Smiley...Thanq So Much...Love You Sir
Awesome...................The Photoshop learning curve continues in leaps ans bounds...............Thanks for the Lessons
I love all your tutorials! I was just wondering if you can do a tutorial on how to touch up on senior people. For example, what we should and should not retouch on. Thanks!
truly professional and accurate tutorial among the crowd -thnx
Me ayudó mucho este vídeo. Gracias. (Guayaquil, Ecuador)
Most helpful video on RUclips!
literally read my mind!! I was wondering about this yesterday :D
***** Same here ._. You're amazing (Y)
Hey, I was trying to create a complex action and struggling with selecting specific layers and the action not-working. This video was exactly what I was looking for. I subscribed first thing the video was finished and am looking forward to seeing what other tutorials you've made!
I work in a studio in Egypt and i use actions a lot, i was wondering how to stop the action and set a new value in crop or selctive color and this help me a lot thanks very much for sharing.
You people are literally amazing ! Videos are fun and informative :D..Thank you so much.:)
Long time watcher first time commenter. Just a quick question, is there a keyboard shortcut to jump right to either the top layer or bottom layer? Rather than the (very helpful) move to previous or next layer shortcuts? Cheers Aaron.
Awesome! I never knew about this!
Yes I make very very long actions for production work. Some times you have to select a path and deselect a path to make it work. Use keystrokes todays action was played on 300 files back from cutting out in india, some of the files had the background selected and some had the layer above selected so I used option +. to activate the layer on the very top of the image. The action then worked on files that either had the background selected or the one above the background selected. My actions resize and puts and image on own layer and creates a shadow then centres the image and so on, ends up with a shadow on a layer behind that has a mask and changes the swatch and brush tool to selectively brush in a shadow at the bottom of the image. Saves hours.
It's 2021. This was still helpful! Thanks!
nice video and good presentation.. thank you. i hope you can teach me again with another video.. thanks
God damn this video answered every single question I had!! You are the man!
Thank you... I've learned something awesome in a very easy way.
This tutorial was really helpful to me for understanding the actions language.... Though I have faced a new problem while creating some actions the other day. Please help on using brushes while recording action smartly....so that the same brush effect can be used on any image by playing that action. Thanks..
Omg i never knew that about actions usually when I get an error from an action I just delete it. Phlearn is the best 😎
Awesome tutorial, thank you!
Love it! I think there are some Phlearn Pros that I want to go back and use them as templates for creating my own actions: my own sharpen actions from the Beauty Beetle and my own personal check layers action based on what I learned in A Dark Force!
I did just that also, well on the check layers. Mind I asking what layers you use for check layers? I use a selective color for saturation, black and white for luminosity, and a saturated color fill layer for colors. I can share the action with you if you want.
You're great man thanks for this video tuts!
This made my day! First, a trailer about the upcoming film about Stephen Hawking. I actually saw the full trailer. Then your face! I really enjoy your tutorials, but the contrast between an epic trailer and your opening scene really made me burst into laugh! Thank you! Also, neat tutorial!
This is a brilliant tutorial - I just need to watch it another 27 times so I fully understand it
the trick you taught was really amazing
Amazing... this was unexpected tutorial. Can't wait to try what i have in mind...
Please, make a phlearn episode on how to make compositing fine art atmosphere.
Thank you so much for the tutorials!
Wowww ...Very easy and cool ways to do things now On ..
o. m. g. ...the action specific keyboard shortcuts! Why does Adobe keep secrets from us? Why did I struggle with this so long before coming to watch your video? :)
18:20 Excellent !!! I've been searching the way to do this for several days
Thanks for tagging that, I was looking for it too!
Really Really Cool :)
Could u explain little bit about color. how to choose right color for projects . what is should keep my mind when i choose color ?
This is great stuff. I'm hoping to learn as much as I can about actions. My goal is to create a series of "logo mockups" which always have a bunch of actions. The other thing it always has is smart object transformations which include blurring, embossing, etc. Can you please do a video on advanced smart object transformations in the same style of this video? I loved it!
Liked it very much and it helped mi a lot! Thanks!
i liker your tutorial it so so so help full, god bless you all the time
Can you do another photoshop action video for light and airy look?
I've been watching a lot of RUclips videos for that style but I have yet to have seen a descent one.
And every single video of yours seem to be more than just descent, more like perfect! :)
This was incredibly helpful. Thanks so much.
Excellent! This is Guru-level teaching. Thank you.
Wow ! very complicated as you need the Alt key on the left hand side plus the bracket key to select backward layer.
Hi The Video is very very helpful, thank you. Would you kindly consider making a short cut hand out or key so that we can reference all the short cuts your using. Thanks!
I was following okay up to the keyboard shortcuts and then you lost me. But I understood the theory behind it. I would love to see you expand on actions. How to manage them efficiently. Eg layer naming, layer colours, button mode etc. thanks for sharing :)
Thank you so much for this great tutorial!
Hi Guys! The new website is awesome, but I can't find the "recommended gear" article and the "suggested readings" page. Could you help me?
Great job Aaron! You're teaching me tons of stuff! Keep doing it!