After clicking one of the buttons, the zip file with the macros is placed in the default download folder on your PC or MAC.
Download your Photoshop Actions for Photographers Package
How to Install the Photoshop Actions
Installing Photoshop actions is very simple; just follow these few steps:
Download the product file that you get a link to after you complete the payment process. Alternatively, follow the link in the email you get after completing the purchase. The file you download is named: Photography-RAW – Photoshop Actions for Photographers.zip
Once downloaded, find it using Finder (Mac) or Windows Explorer (Win) and double-click the .zip file to extract it.
Next, open the extracted folder and double-click the file: Photography-RAW – Actions for Photographers.atn. Double-clicking will install the actions in Photoshop ready for you to use.
To install the Web Sharpener Photoshop actions, you should double-click the file: Photography-RAW – Web Sharpener Actions.atn.
Now the Photoshop actions should be ready for you to use from the Action Panel in Photoshop CC.
If you experience issues or would like to know other ways of installing Photoshop Actions have a look at this page explaining how to install PS-actions.
How to Use the Photoshop Actions
Go to the Photoshop Action Panel. If it is not visible, go to the menu: Window -> Actions to activate it.
In the action panel, you will find a folder/action set called: Photography-RAW: Photoshop Actions for Photographers. If it isn’t open already click on the small arrow just left of the folder icon. Clicking the arrow will open the action set and reveal all the actions included in the Photoshop Action for Photographers Package.
To run an action: select by left-clicking on it (only once) and then press the “play” or “run” button at the bottom of the actions panel. Pressing “play” will execute the selected action and apply it based on the active layer in your image.
For a better overview of the actions, you can also switch the view mode of the Action panel in Photoshop to use button mode. Button mode displays all actions as buttons. All the included action in the package has a green color in button mode. In button mode, you just need to click the action button once to run it.
For advanced users: If you prefer to have more control of what each Photoshop action does, you can turn on dialogue windows for either a whole action or individual ‘steps’ of an action. Click the small gray square to make it white and thereby activate that setting dialogue windows appear when you run the Photoshop action. To only enable setting dialogue for a single step of the action, you need to click the left-pointing arrow to the right of the box, to unfold the detailed steps of the Photoshop action. Then you can locate the exact step you wish to see the settings for so you can modify them as the action runs.
The downside to using button mode is that you cannot toggle the dialogue windows on for more control. Furthermore, in button mode, you cannot exclude particular action steps from running.
Important note about the Web sharpening and resize actions:
These actions convert the image to 8-bit, which makes you lose the layers.
Avoid saving the resized images and replacing your original image. Use the export function, or use the sharpen and resize actions which contain save as jpeg in the naming, from the batch processing dialog.