Automatization of actions in PS

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March 22, 2021
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Hello guys

I have a question. I am sharpening my pictures after processing manually in Photoshop. The workflow is always the same. I select the desired images, opened it all as single files and than manually duplicate each layer of each file, sharpen it with filter, set the opacity to 80% of the duplicated layer, merge the two layers of each file into one, and save each file again.

Is it possible to write a script that makes everything for me?

That would be a lot of work reduction.

thank you for any hints

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D Fosse

Community Expert

Yes, easily done with an action that can be batched from selected files in Bridge.

I would absolutely not recommend saving over the original, though. You're going to regret that sooner or later. Keep your masters unsharpened, then sharpen copies for output. Different purposes require different sharpening.

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roland5E25Author

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I´m processing the pictures in Lightroom before, save it compressed as JPG, duplicating the files before sharpening, to have a backup on the original files. Then opening in PS and do the sharpening with the filter shown in the first image. Setting the opacity to 80% after the sharpening seem the best setting to me, so far.

If I would not duplicate the layer, sharpen the image and set the opacity to 80%, the image would simply getting darker, because ther is no backgroundlayer giving the missing 20% of opacity I guess.

I also tried using online-web sharpening tools ( scripts, like that from Andreas Resch, that are amazing see here https://andreasresch.at/websharpener_en ) but in total its toom much work and too many steps to do manually..

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

»save it compressed as JPG«

Please don’t do that – you are needlessly damaging your images and the jpg-artefacts will be included in the sharpening.

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

That sounds like a simple action could handle that, and Stephen's suggestion of using fade would save several steps in duplicating, setting opacity, and merging the layers.