To me a gallery is a vehicle for your images. If the images are good, and the pages are easily navigable, you don’t need to bling it out to make it work. So in this video, we create a web gallery in a matter of minutes. It’s so easy, even I was surprised at how quickly I finished the video. Click through to check it out!

If you go through the video, you’ll see that I don’t go through each and every feature (though I do touch on most of them). That’s intentional. Rather than inundate you with too much information, I give you the basic info you need to create your web gallery. How far you take it after that is up to you. That’s how you learn. If you wanted an overview of each and every feature, you’d get a book =)

As always, I appreciate your comments and thoughts on the video. I need your help to really guide the direction and scope of this blog. I could make it more advanced, or more in depth, with longer videos and accompanying files or information to make for a very robust instruction, or I can keep it simple enough to follow along and quickly get going. The choice is up to you. I went with simple because it’s easier for me to turn around a video in a few hours, and I can focus on a topic with each presentation.

Without further ado:

Adobe Photoshop Web Gallery

Leave a comment, and if you see someone’s comment and agree, then say so. If I see 10 comments on the same subject, I’ll know that’s a great idea. But just in case you’re not sure what to consider, I’ve created a list of ideas I already have in mind.

So here’s what I’ve got in mind for the future

• Obviously, I plan to do more on Actions
• Noise Ninja, something I promised to write about on FM, will be a post/video here
• Green Screens. They tend to be tough, what with spill, and getting a good key to pull the green off an image.
• Lightroom. Not everyone uses Photoshop, so something on Lightroom might make sense.
• For that matter, what programs would you like to see in use? There’s so many out there.
• Anyone remember the video of me packing a Minitrekker into the photo equivalant of a turducken? Ya, well I’ve got a Computrekker, and an Airport Security too. So, uh, who wants to see me pack that?
• I’m considering an article on data storage/backup. From how to make backups in realtime, to maintaining proper offsite storage, etc.
• Aside from lenses and cameras, what else do I take with me to shoots?
• Someone mentioned this. Honestly, I’m not sure it would be that interesting, but if enough people are interested, I would do it: Day in the life, like a video of me and what I normally do on a shoot day.
• Someone also mentioned this: What the different modes on a camera are, from manual to aperture to shutter priority. Oh and I am a Canon and Nikon friendly person, so it would be geared to both those cameras. Kinda like how I have a PC laptop, but own a Mac Pro. The duality of man, the Jungian thing. (btw, that’s a Full Metal Jacket reference).
• Anyone notice I put a student tag on some articles? Well not every student can afford photoshop, so I’m considering articles on alternative apps for students on a budget. You’d be surprised what you could pull off without Photoshop.

That’s stuff of the top of my head. But there’s so much more I’m sure I haven’t even touched on. So you tell me, what would you like to see on PShizzy.com?

By reading the rest of this post!

In this video we build upon the first video. In fact, I reference the original action we created, because it could work as a batch folder action if we tweaked it a little.

Tweaking it isn’t nearly as hard as it may seem, and you don’t have to start another action from scratch, so get that idea out of your head, see the video, and jump on into photoshop and fix your action.

Oh and there will be more. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to actions.

Enjoy

Actions II: Making Your Action Batch Friendly

Keep the comments coming. I intend for this blog to cover a lot of territory, but I need to know what’s on your mind so I can concentrate on the important stuff first.

Lawrence Lightner recently offered me eternal gratitude for a walk through on actions. So I made a flash video. I figure he now owes me his eternal soul. The rest of you have no such burden. Well, not really. . .

So, rather than doing a simple images and step by step tutorial, I created a simple Flash presentation. I wanted to keep it simple, so I could actually accomplish this and turn it around quickly. I made this in about an hour or so, from first recording (and trust me, I edited it out a lot of bad audio. Mostly me cursing when I screwed up saying something).

It’s pretty simple, but I hope to make more of these, in multiple parts, and much more advanced than this. But I need to know that these videos will actually be effective as a training aid. And I’d like to know that they are a good reason to come to my blog. So here’s what I’m gonna ask everyone to do:

If you like the blog for the content, tell someone you know that doesn’t already know about it. If you like a specific post, please hit the new DIGG button and digg it. And if you like the video, and want to see more, then please leave a comment here, and let me know that you like it, and better yet, what you would like to see more of.

Remember, it worked for Lawrence.

Actions Flash Presentation

BTW, you may get a dialog box talking about security settings in Flash. Just click ok and move on.