One thing that should be important to every photographer is time management and improving workflow. One of the best ways to do this is to automate your life through Photoshop actions. Every photographer has his or her favourite techniques which we like to apply to our images. Most of them are pretty simple but do require a few clicks. A well organised set of actions will save you time and money!

Create your own actions in Photoshop

Firstly decide what you want to, practice it, even write it down if need be.

Click on the images to enlarge.

Start off by creating a New Set.

Give your set a name it’ll help you organise your actions.

Create a new action.

Name your action, it is also a good idea to change the colour and if it’s an action your likely to use regularly the set a function key for it.

Now it’s time to perform your action, go through the motions you normally do then when finished click stop.

Turn on the Button Mode.

Your action is ready to go!