Computer Graphics with Photoshop - CS2 script for efficient use of organized Action Sets

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CS2 script for efficient use of organized Action Sets

Timo Autiokari

2007-05-20, 6:14 pm

Hello,

do you feel that the use of many Action Sets is cumbersome?

I have always felt so. And therefore I have had all my Actions in one
big clump in one single Action Set. Resulting that my Actions Palette
was eating about 1/3 of the real estate of the screen. Because I want to
avoid that lengthy task of pinpointing the mouse on to that very very
small round spot in the Actions Palette, then ClearAllActions ...and oh
Yes I really do want to clear them all, once again back to that small
spot and then Load Action, clickety clickety click.

But no more. I wrote a small CS2 script, the ActionSetChanger. It
changes an Action Set that is loaded to the Action Palette, just by two
mouse click. Is easily configurable, and fast. Does not affect other
Action Sets that possibly are loaded to the Action Palette, just
operates within its own group of Action Sets.

Now I have many nicely organized/categorized Action Sets (on the network
drive so they are available for all the CS2 computers at the lab). And
the ActionSetChanger swaps between them in a fraction of a second by
just two mouse clicks that are less than 1 inch apart.

Download here: http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/photoshop/jsx/index.htm there
is more info and a ScreenCapture also.

Timo Autiokari

jay@phony-no-spam.info

2007-06-15, 3:19 am

Hello Timo,

I'm trying your profiler
(http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/calibration/xlprofiler/). It is pretty good, I
like it. I was using lcms before, but I think you are on to something better
with yours. Keep up the good work with it.

One question about it: I have a wide gamut digital camera I am trying to
profile with your profiler. But its software only allows for extracting .TIF
or .DNG with embedded color profiles. The profile options are for sRGB,
Adobe RGB, ProPhoto RGB, & ColorMatch RGB. I would like to edit the .raw
data directly, to extract the .TIF without an embedded profile but cannot
get in to the .X3F format for this camera using ufraw (camera is Polaroid
X530, the .X3F files it creates are not following the same spec that Sigma
uses for their .X3F format so ufraw bombs on opening the Polaroid .X3F
files).

I tried using ProPhoto RGB with a .DNG that had the .RAW data embedded in
it, used Wolf's R030510 IT8.7 target & his data, ran it through your
profiler. I ended up getting a perfect profile that looked identical to the
ProPhoto RGB color profile :-) what can I do, what should I do, please help.
Any ways to remove embedded color profiles so I can get to the .RAW data
directly? Can you suggest something. Thanks.

Jay in U.S.A.