No, not really. The action step you are recording is "Set Foreground Color", not "pick the color in this location". So when you record the action, it is simply setting the foreground (and background) colors to a numeric value of your choosing. They will remain that way until you change them.
Peace,
Tony
So is there a way to "pick the color in this location?"
Or, is there any other way so that it will be 2 different colors everytime without having to do it manually? They don’t even have to be colors in the picture.
So is there a way to "pick the color in this location?"
I don’t know of any way.
If you knew the colors you wanted, you could manually record them into your action. Step, step, step, set foreground color, step, step, step, set foreground color, rinse and repeat.
Maybe there’s another way to accomplish what you want, just not the way you are trying to do it. If you elaborate more on that, we might be able to point you in a better direction.
Peace,
Tony
Or, is there any other way so that it will be 2 different colors everytime without having to do it manually? They don’t even have to be colors in the picture.
Okay, what I am trying to do is this:
I have 500 pictures all of the same size. I am making a new layer, enlargeing the canvas by 30 pixels all around, then using the cloud filter to make a cloud using the foreground and background color, then i move the cloud layer to the backgound. It all works good except that I would like the background to be different colors for each picture. Or atleast have about 10 different backgrounds for the whole group. Any ideas?
There’s no elegant way that I can think of to do it, but it IS do able.
Open a dummy image, record your resizing steps, then record the clouds filter with color set 1, include your save as sequence, then stop recording. Do that for the 10 or 12 different color sets, changing the foreground/background colors for each set. An easy way to do this is to Copy the action for color set 1, then in the step for color selection, double click on it to record the new colors. That way you don’t have to repeat all the steps 10 times, you just copy the action and make a single change to it.
You can run each action on a folder of images (I told you it was inelegant) OR, you can create a droplet for each one, and drop your folder onto each droplet thereby creating the entire set of approximately 5,000 images (10 bkgrnds x 500 images).
It’ll work, but it’s just not pretty.
Peace,
Tony
I would write the action this way.
Open picture
Change Canvas
set the two colors for the clouds
Apply cloud filter
Hue and saturation with a stop
Save (in a new Folder.)
Close.
When you run batch it will stop so you can move the sliders.
Also consider to apply a style to the canvas.
Norberts way works too, but it’s not fully automated, and has to be "manned". If that’s good for you on 500 images, it’s easier, you just have to manually change each one.
Personally, I’d prefer to write the gag and vomit once, hit go, and go get coffee. But that’s me.
