Mike Jones
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Have you changed the compression of your jpegs? Try using quality ‘6’ when it comes to saving. You can also use the ‘save for web’ option, this is really good for getting screen res images with small file sizes.
Mike Jones LBIPP
Marine Photographer
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There are a few ways you can do this, if you need to run your action on all the images in one folder.
Once you have finished creating your action and hit stop recording go to: File > Batch > Automate
This brings up the batch dialogue box. Select the Set and Action you want to play, then the source folder for your images.
Depending on how your colour management is set up, you should tick the two “suppress’ options. Providing you have already setup a save in your action that you are happy with, leave the “destination” section clear. It is worth running a test on a couple of images before committing the whole folder.
I hope this helps!
Mike Jones LBIPP
Marine Photographer
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The problem you are experiencing with the angle of light changing, is that you must have the ‘global light’ box ticked in the layer styles dialogue box. This function is so that you can sync light direction for drop shadows etc across all effects and layers in the document. If you want each one to be different, un-tick this box.
Mike Jones LBIPP
Marine Photographer
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You can apply filters to an adjustment layer, just like you would on a normal one, However if you are using a mask on your adjustment layer you need re-apply it when you add the filter. One way to do this is to select the mask before you apply the filter.
If you are used to the ‘editable’ filters of AE then i suggest converting layers to smart objects and using ‘smart filters’ as these are live editable and maskable.
Not sure if this is any help.
Mike Jones LBIPP
Marine Photographer
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I don’t know of a simple and effective way to do this in Photoshop, however if you use Expression Media (previously iView Media Pro) you can have as many files as you like in a document all displayed at the same size and out put a hires file based on that.
Mike Jones LBIPP
Marine Photographer
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One of the best ways to convert RGB to CMYK is to go: Edit: Convert to Profile and make sure the ‘intent’ is relative colorimetric.
It will preview the conversion for you which should be minimal with this method. Depending on the image, you may just want to thicken the blacks up afterward.
Hope this helps.
Mike Jones LBIPP
Marine Photographer
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To get sections of images to adopt one colour, create a path or mask for the relevant part of the image.
Create a new layer and fill it with the colour you want, use your path or mask to select the part of image you want to be coloured and delete/mask the rest.
Finally (and the clever bit) go to the blending modes on your layers palette and change it from ‘normal’ to ‘colour’ and that should be the trick.
You can do this with any colour, including Pantone references.
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When you open the file in PS have you gone to the ‘channels’ palette to see if the the Alpha Channel is present? If it is you should be able to select this and remove the black background.
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Just a point worth noting, large format printing is rarely done at 300 dpi, depending on what you are printing on the dpi will range from 72 to 220. Also older versions of Photoshop and a lot applications for handling and printing files won’t cope with files over 2GB.