Photoshop Actions & Batching for automation.

Primatte 3.0 fully supports Actions and Batch processes in Photoshop. This process works especially well with Primatte's Automask feature. For photographers who process large volumes of images, like school or ballet classes, this is an important feature. Go home to get some sleep while Primatte and Photoshop do the work overnight.

Create an Action. Tie into a Batch.

Automating Primatte is very easy in Photoshop. First, create an Action that runs Primatte as part of its script. You can tell the Primatte Action do other tasks, like copy in a new background from a different Photoshop file or resave as a separate Photoshop file.

Next, tie that Action into a Batch process. Batch allows you to run an Action on entire folders of images. Batch will tell Photoshop to open each image and automatically apply the Primatte Action until the whole folder is processed. Listen to Actions & Batches training on our Tutorials page.

Works good: Batching works best on a group of photos that were taken under similar lighting and studio conditions, like our example at right. You should be able to run Primatte on all of those photos in Batch mode.