Hi! I'm Rita and the blogger behind CoffeeShop and a stay-at-home, home-schooling Mom to two naughty but adorable little boys (Duke is 8 and Imp is 5), wife to my high school sweetheart, and passionate about all things photography.
PSE11 Makes Loading and Using Actions EASY!!!
>> Wednesday, October 17, 2012
If you ever wanted an excuse to upgrade to the newest PSE, now is the time. You might want to consider the upgrade even if you have PSE10 and hate loading actions. There are many reasons you would benefit from the newest version (PSE11 is the closest to Photoshop I have ever seen), but today I wanted to tell you that Adobe Photoshop Elements 11
Best of all, you can see all of the steps of the action in the action pane or you can undo the action, step-by-step. This is brilliant because you can go back in time and see every step the action is going through as it runs. Or perhaps you want to remove the last effect or see all of the layers in actions that have flatten as the final step. Now you can Undo, just like Photoshop users!
Unfortunately you still can't write actions, but Adobe has to have a reason to encourage you to upgrade to their more pricey program Photoshop. But now PSE might be all you ever need to edit.
If you are like me, you want to use your new program immediately but you like to also have a hard copy. Here is my little trick. Go order Adobe Photoshop Elements 11
1. When you open PSE11 you will probably be in the Quick Mode. Click Expert on top.
2. Make sure Expert is selected (step 1). Open your action pane by going to Window (step 2), Actions (step 3).
3. Open your layers pane by going to Window, Layers.
4. When you open Actions, you should see a box like the one seen above. Click on the Actions tab, then on the little box to the right of Actions (step 1) and then Load Actions (step 2).
5. Hopefully you will know where you downloaded your actions (I download to my desktop). Then click on the .atn file, not the thumbnail. Click Open.
6. You will see your action in the action pane (CoffeeShop Boost It in this case).
7. To run the action, you might have to open the little yellow folder by the name by clicking on the little gray triangle to the left of it, then click to select the action by the little blue triangle (step 1). Then click on the play button (step 2) and you will see your action play on your layer pane (step 3).
8. Now for the cool part! If you want to take apart the action or perhaps go back in history to the middle of the action, go to Edit, Undo (in this case Undo Rename Layer). You can go back quite far and you can also go forward. This is something you can do in Photoshop but were never able to do in PSE. This is really nice if you are running an action that flattens your image at the last step. You now can Undo and see all of the layers and make adjustments!
9. Here is another great feature. Now you can see all of the action steps for each action in your action pane!!! This is wonderful if you want to study the steps in the action. Click on the little blue triangle by the action to open it and see the steps. You can even open each step by clicking on the little blue triangle by each one. To hide them again, just click on the little blue triangle by the name (or each step).
Hope this little tutorial helps. Go for it and upgrade to PSE11
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10 Comments:
I had just bought PSE10 a week before PSE11 was released & was still using the trial version when I saw PSE11 was available. I was hesitant about whether to go ahead and open up my PSE10 package from Amazon and just use it, or pay the extra $ to get the PSE11. I've been playing around with the trial version of PS11 and I think I'll go ahead and return my 10 pacakge and upgrade to 11 with your endorsement. Thank you!
Can you load multiple .atn files at once? I've tried to copy multiple files but it doesn't seem to work I can only choose one file at a time.
Thank you so much for the step by step guides. Had to get a new laptop and PSE because I couldn't find my old disk. The 11 version was on sale and love it. Loading all my actions to the new laptop and getting them was installed was a breeze thanks to you!
You are awesome, Rita!! Followed your steps to install the Perfect Portrait action, and it is a breeze!! Thanks for the encouraging note about upgrading to PSE11 - so happy I did.
You are a true hero! I had a hard-drive crash and had to reset to factory settings. Lost everything!! Decided to upgrade from PSE8 to 11. Hated losing all my favorite action sets, but thank you thank you thank you that I can go grab them all again. Also appreciated so much the tutorial to load them into 11. Phew...that was pretty easy!
This makes me super happy!! I was having a freak out that I wouldn't be able to use all the actions that I bought, such a relief!
oh yay! I just upgraded to PSE11 due to my old mac dying, and now I have to go and re dl all of my fave actions from you, this does seem much easier! And now, to relearn this new PSE11, it looks so different than PSE6! Again, a big thank you for all that you do, you are THE BEST~!
oh yay! I just upgraded to PSE11 due to my old mac dying, and now I have to go and re dl all of my fave actions from you, this does seem much easier! And now, to relearn this new PSE11, it looks so different than PSE6! Again, a big thank you for all that you do, you are THE BEST~!
This is not working for me. is this only mac compatible?
Perhaps this is only me...I can load and use the actions just fine, but if the computer is shut down and turned on again, the actions are gone and I have to re-load all of them. Am I supposed to "save" my actions somehow once they're all loaded, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks! Becky
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