Hey guys, welcome to the Photoshop Training Channel.
Today, I have a very interesting tutorial for you, guys.
It's going to be a little different than everything I've done so far, but I still think that it
will teach you a lot and, hopefully, it will help you increase your work flow.
Now, have you guys heard of Photoshop Script Event Manager?
If you haven't, it's a pretty useful tool.
It helps you create actions or scripts, and it applies to sections or scripts to an event.
I will first take you to how I will normally open up an image.
Then, I will show you how the Script Events Manager can help us to even expedite that
process.
So, usually, I just go to File, Open and select an image.
In this case, I'm going to select an image that we created in our last tutorial, the
"Young to Old Tutorial" where I made myself look about 80 years older than what I really
am.
If you're interested in the tutorial, you can check it out at PhotoshopTrainingChannel.com.
But, anyway, enough of my shameless plug.
Once I open the image, I like to go into the View setting, Screen Mode, and set my Screen
Mode to Full Screen.
And that, so I can take advantage of all the real estate I have, and there's no clutter
around my image, and I can just work around my image directly.
I can use my keyboard to select different tools, and if there's a tool whose keyboard
shortcut I don't know, I can just go over to the left, and select whatever I need; same
thing on the right, where my layers panel, and all these other options.
But, anyway, that's the long way of doing it, because every time you open up an image,
you have to go into View, Screen, and Full Screen Mode.
And, you're probably thinking, what's the big deal about that?
It only takes about a second, and you would be right.
It does take about a second, but if you're opening up dozens of images, hundreds of images,
like I am, a day, it can become pretty tedious.
So, what Photoshop has allowed us to do is it gave us a system in which we can apply
actions to an event, in this case, opening up an image.
So let me show you how that works.
Go into your Actions panel.
If you don't have Action icon on the right here, you can just go into Window and click
on Actions; then create a new action.
And if you've never created an action, I'll quickly show you how they work.
So, once this new window is open, just give it a name.
I'm going to name mine "full screen," and then, press Record.
And what Photoshop does is it records everything that you do.
So if I set my foreground to, say, blue, it's going to record that the foreground was set
to blue.
If I add a new layer, it's going to record that I added a new layer.
If I fill that layer with blue, it's going to remember that I filled that layer with
blue.
I'm going to press the Stop button.
I'm going to delete this layer.
I'm going to click on the name of the action.
I'm going to click on Play, and it's going to run through all the steps that we just
created and it's going to recreate that same blue layer.
So, as you can see, it did all the steps, and it came back with the blue layer that
we created.
Now, this is really cool, but the problem with that is, and, actually, let me just delete
these steps since I won't be needing them.
The problem of Actions is that they don't really record a lot of the settings in the
view menu.
So, for example, if I go to Screen Mode and select Full Screen, Photoshop doesn't record
that.
So I'm going to press Esc, and what you can do is you can go into the fly out of the Actions
panel, and you can select Insert Menu Item.
You're going to get this window right here.
Don't do anything just yet, and then, go into View, Screen Mode, Full Screen.
Notice that this is now full screen, and then, press OK.
Now that action was recorded.
I'm going to press the Stop icon.
I'm going to click on Full Screen and I'm going to click the Play button.
And notice that it takes us into the Full Screen Mode.
Now, this is really cool, but the problem with that is if we open up an image, and go
into the Actions panel, and we hit Play, then we're in the Screen Mode.
Well, that's good, but we're still wasting time.
We might as well go into View, Screen Mode, and Full Screen.
But, with Photoshop Script Event Manager, we don't have to do all that.
We can just go into File, Scripts, Script Event Manager, and in this window, here, we
can apply a script or an action to a Photoshop event, so we can select any one of these events
or we can create our own.
I'm going to choose Open Document.
So, every time I open up a document, I want to apply an Action.
And the Action that I want to apply is saved in the Photoshop Training Channel folder.
You might have a different folder and I'm going to select the Full Screen option.
I'm going to click on Add, and I'm going to click on Done.
So, now, every time I open up an image, I automatically get taken into the Full Screen
Mode, and that's the beauty with the Script Event Manager.
Not only that, maybe, I'm working on a project that I know I'm going to be using the Healing
Brush Tool, I can click on the Healing Brush Tool, Photoshop is going to remember that,
I'm going to press Stop.
I'm going to select a different tool just so you could see it's not remembering what
I had selected, and I'm going to open up a new image, and when I open up this new image,
I have the Healing Brush Tool selected.
So this is a very useful technique.
It could, potentially, save you a lot of time.
And that's it for this tutorial.
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I hope you learned something from it, and I hope you apply it to your projects.
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