Sunday, May 26, 2013

Underwater photoshop macro

Tired of your underwater pictures looking terrible... all blue and washed out.  Well, even those cruddy pictures taken with that simple point and shoot camera (in an underwater housing) can be made to look pretty good!

Photoshot can adjust the colors automatically for underwater and make the colors look better.  I find the results to be simply amazing!  That is not to say that it makes bad pictures into good pictures.  It means that decent pictures with horrible coloring can be turned into decent pictures with decent coloring.

File name: Underwater_flat.atn (File available here)

Installing a Photoshop macro:

  • open photoshop
  • ensure actions palet is visible
    • Windows > Actions (will make action open up)
    •  there will be a little PLAY button (right arrow) in the palet dock
  • open the actions palet
  •  top right corner is a pulldown menu... Load actions
    •  browse to .atn file
    •  load .atn in (underwater)


Run the Maro:

  • File > Automate > batch
    • set : underwater
    • actions colorcorrect_red
    • Source: folder... CHOOSE FOLDER
      • select suppress File open options dialog 
      • select suppress Color Profile warnings
    • Desintation: folder... CHOOSE FOLDER
      • File Naming: Document Name + _corrected + extention
    •  OK


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