
A PS Action, by contrast, will tear through the pile of photos as fast as your computer will allow it. In our previous example, correcting the color cast of the images, even if you could fix every image in 12 seconds, you would still need to sit at your computer furiously clicking and typing away for 40 minutes (assuming you were an absolute focus machine and didn’t waver even a moment from your work). Investing the time to create actions that cover many of your frequently repeated tasks in Photoshop can save you untold amounts of time both in the short and long term. This process is called creating an Action in Photoshop lingo and it’s, frankly, a vastly underused feature in Photoshop. Automating the process would allow you to perform the actions once and then have Photoshop repeat the process on every image.


That’s an enormous amount of labor, especially when you consider that you’re just repeating the same actions over and over again on each image. Let’s say you have two hundred photos from a family get together that all need the same massaging.
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Let’s say, for example, you read our tutorial How to Fix Poor White Balance in Your Photos with Post Processing so you now know how to correct the color issues in your photos using Photoshop. Unlike the darkrooms of old, however, we have the power to automate parts of the process in a way that photographers of yesteryear could only dream of. Photoshop, and comparable tools, are truly the darkroom of the digital age where the modifications and finishing touches are applied to photos. Early on in every amatuer and professional photographer’s pursuit of photography and digital editing they realize just how much time they’re spending dinking around in photo editing applications.
