1. Go through your Lightroom collection of photos. Choose your 10 favorite photos from ANY assignment we've had thus far.
2. Drag these 10 photos into Photoshop.
3. In Photoshop, go up to "Window", "Actions". This will open up a window that looks like the one below. These are Action Scripts. Expand this newly opened window by dragging the bottom of it down to expose all of your Action Scripts. (I recommend trying the "Instagram Action Scripts")
4. Action Scripts are a bundle of multiple photo edits that occur with just a push of a button. This one, to be precise.
5. With your photo open, click on any of the Action Scripts window and then click the "Play" button at the bottom of that window to set in motion the Action Scripts edits. NOTE: Don't ever click on any of the Action Scripts that are under the Action Script, or underneath the drop down arrow within that Action Scripts. That will only enable one of the edits within that Action Script. You want ALL of the edits to occur in the Action Script. Circled below are the Action Scripts. Underneath them are the individual edits.
6. Experiment with these Action Scripts. If you don't like them, just go to "File", "Revert" and it will revert your photo back to it's original self.
7. You can also use anything under "Image", or "Filter" to edit your photos. TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN AND EXPERIMENT WITH ACTION SCRIPTS AND OTHER EDITING TOOLS TODAY. SEE WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN'T UNTIL YOU FIND THE PERFECT FIT FOR EACH PHOTO!
8. When you are done, put all 10 photos onto a 8" x 11" Contact Sheet with 2 Columns and 5 Rows and save it in a .jpg format.
Naming Convention: _actionscripts
Due Date: By the End of Class Thursday, October 31st.
NOTE: Most of you already have it, but if you don't find the "Instagram Action Script" in Photoshop, go to my Public folder on the staff server. You will find it there. Drag it to your Desktop and simply double click on it. It will automatically load and open in Photoshop.
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