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If you copy them to the Photoshop Actions folder in your Presets folder they will appear on the dropdpwn menu next time you start up Photoshop, which makes for easy loading.
Ed, look at this Uber-mega tutorial about actions, it explains the procedure (and everything that you ever wondered about actions, but where afraid to ask): <http://www.atncentral.com/installing.htm>
I understand it completely; I just feel safer actually saving the actions. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned.
Plus, I feel it’s morte versatile for e-mailing or sharing actions (which I do often). And I don’t usually have all the actions on my hard drive loaded into the palette all the time. I like to keep the palette uncluttered and that’s easier to do with the actions saved IMHO.
Hmm. Maybe it’s just what I’m used to. I rarely use Word on my PC and didn’t even have it on my Mac at work until about a month ago. PDF seems to be the preferred format for these kinds of things in my experience.
And maybe it’s just an aversion to Microsoft products.
"WHY do people insist on creating that kind of website anyway"
It’s very common on "Photography" websites of all kinds. Somehow, photographers feel that a black background symbolizes a "photographic theme."
It just drives me insane to deal with these sites. And some of them actually have dark gray text, rather than white!
Anyone who has any kind of background in graphic design and the presentation of material for human readability knows that dark text on a light background is vastly more readable than the inverse. It is very dramatic, in small doses, to have light text on a dark background. But not for body copy and not for extensive text spreads.
It does absolutely no good to try and tell designers of such sites that the design is unreadable. And sadly, many, many people with such (non)design backgrounds eventually become involved in print design, bringing their atrocious design tastes with them.
Yes. Design doesn’t get much worse than the example on that site.
Usually that kind of ignorance of design comes from engineers who have developed a product and insist they know what the printed page should look like advertising their work. I’ve had the misfortune to be involved in such projects.
It’s surprising that photography sites should suffer from this kind of thing. I guess that ability to design a photograph cannot be expected to extend to other needs of graphic presentation.
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