Excited, my actions for quick albums works!

[mcmama]

I had created actions a while back to help me assemble my quick albums faster. I assemble mine as 24x12 spreads as it is easier for me to visualize and I tend to scrap that way and then crop for uploading for printing. When I updated my CS5, I must have copied over my actions so I couldn't find them so yesterday I created them again but they are working even better than my old ones. I managed to assemble my quick album and png's for Jan quick album in about 20 minutes last night for all of them. I was pretty happy.

I ended up doing actions for:

-assembling psd file for 2 page spread
-assemble preview to tag in acdsee
-assemble png
-assemble 2 full psd 12x12 files into a 24x12 spread.

There were a couple issues I was having last night and then showering to get ready for work this morning, I had a light bulb moment and had to check before work and it worked. Yeah!

Anyways, just excited as it should save me some time. I was behind in assembling my files.

[Wendy]

Hi Jodi ...

Oh that is great news ... sounds like your new actions will be really useful :)

Wendy

[Jan]

Clever you, Jodi! Isn't it great when we can streamline things and zip through those tedious tasks!

[SharLamb]

So happy for you. One of my biggest moments of disillusion when I first got into digital scrapping was that PSE couldn't create actions (I called them macros, for that's what they call them in Word for Windows). And when I first started using CS, it was the biggest thrill that I could now make them. I feel your joy! :D

[Wendy]

I love making actions ... and they save so much time :)

Wendy

[mcmama]

I do have to say, I do not regret moving up to cs from elements. Although I liked elements and was able to make it do everything I needed it to, I was often doing work arounds. With PS, it is so nice to be able to create actions, presets etc, and loading things is so much easier. I love figuring things out and finding out all the things I can do etc so PS is a good fit for me. I went to 2 monitors not long after as well, and that sure is a lovely addition.