Photoshop action & colour correction

[copperband]

Originally Posted by The Prices

folder?? sorry, completely new to photoshop so cs2 is scary for me... can I ask for the dummies explaination...???

Save the 'underwater.atn' to a folder (any folder, doesn't matter what and where). Open said folder. Start Photoshop, on the right hand side of the screen, approx half way down you should have 'History' tab and 'Actions' tab. Select 'Actions' tab. Now, from taskbar, select folder where 'underwater.atn' resides. Simply 'drag and drop' the file from the folder into the 'Actions' tab within photoshop.
To run the underwater action, click the icon infront of the word 'Underwater', this should then drop down showing the words 'colorcorrect_red'. Click on 'colorcorrect_red' then click 'play selection' (3rd icon along at the bottom of the 'actions' tab.

HTH

Paul

[David P]

I commented on this - with some links to how to get this working in Photoshop Elements at What software for editing and I've put a couple of sample pix of mine (UK and Barbados) at my web site. When it works well, the results are amazing - certainly enough to give a flavour for how much effort it's likely to be worth putting into manual adjustments.

David P.

[David A]

Originally Posted by The Prices

Lost..... how do I "put" the underwater function into CS2 - it has something to do with loading it into the action palette but I have not got a clue... giving me grey hairs before my time ... lol

If you have CS2, surely you must be shooting in RAW? If so, the plug-in is redundant. If not................??????

[B]

The problem with shooting in RAW (as i understand it) is the time it takes the camera to process the image to memory card, so at moment mostly use standard JPEG file types.

[StuartC]

Originally Posted by The Prices

The problem with shooting in RAW (as i understand it) is the time it takes the camera to process the image to memory card, so at moment mostly use standard JPEG file types.

I agree.

My Sea&Sea DX5000G takes about 20 seconds to write a RAW TIFF file to the SD card. I've tried uber-fast SD cards and they're no faster, so it's the camera that takes the time.

Whilst it would be fantastic to use a 10Mb raw image file for post-processing, I just cannot wait 20 seconds after each shot - especially if there's a little blur or you're shooting something that isn't stuck in the same place...

whilst the DX5000 has a really fast shutter response, all the benefits of capturing the action are lost if you can only take 2 shots per minute!

and the RAW plugin only works with RAW images from certain cameras.