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Requirements and description Using CRRH Layouts Actions
Step 1 Display Actions panel Step 2 Load Circles Layouts Actions Step 3 Expand Circles Layouts Actions set Step 4 Select and run action Step 5 Setup document Step 6 Choose file to replace image_1 Smart Object layer Step 7 Transform placed object Step 8 Choose files for other placeholders Step 9 Replace Individual Images Step 10 Save composition on hard drive Customization tips Customization tip 1 Define shapes radius, sizes and proportions Customization tip 2 Using Group Images and Placeholders and Merge and Rasterize actions
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Maximum flexibility
This set of actions is created for maximum flexibility. You are not limited in any way since actions are extremely flexible and can be used for any purpose from thumbnail creation to design of brochures, flyers, photo books, cover pages, posters, business cards... Beside that you have choice for size, resolution, number of placeholders... every layout is easily customizable in terms of number of placeholders, their sizes and positions what is explained later in step by step tutorial. Thats not all, additional actions are provided to group image layers and vector placeholders to which images are clipped and finally to merge and rasterize image and vector placeholder with result to minimize number of layers and file size.
Actions folder contains 4 sub-folders: Circles Layouts Rounded Rectangles Layouts Hexagon Layouts. Universal Actions which works with any of set provided in package. Replace individual Images action is universal for all actions available in package. This set of actions allows you to replace any already placed image in case you make mistake or you changed you mind.
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Click on Actions panel menu then choose Load Actions... from the list.
Navigate to folder with actions, select .atn file then click Load button.
Click triangle on the right side of Circles Layouts Actions set to expand it and see all actions included.
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First click on action name to highlight it then click Play When pop-up message appear, read it then click on button at the bottom of Actions panel. Continue button.
When Place dialog opens navigate to image you want to use, select it and click Place button.
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Click on square in front of image placement map layer Click on Replace image_number action name then to see placement map. click Play button.
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Customization tips
In this section I will explain how to get most of this set of actions. Actions are created to help you in your every day workflow do easy and quick create final products which requires images inside or clipped to circles, rounded rectangles or hexagons. This set of actions should be useful for designers and photographers to create: brochures, product catalogues, photo books, photo albums, cover pages, business cards, flyers and so on.
Customization tip 2 Using Group Images and Placeholders and Merge and Rasterize actions
This two actions works with any layout with up to 36 image and placeholder layers in sequence 1-36. Use Group Images and Placeholders action to group image and placeholder layers with matching number. This is very helpful to align and distribute groups to create any layout you may need. Furthermore you can group manually Image & Placeholder xx groups into row or column groups. Here are my thoughts and suggestion on how to use this action:
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Group image and placeholder layers action step by step tutorial This action works with any created layout with up to 36 images and placeholders in sequence The main reason to record this action is to help you when creating custom layouts. Here is how this action works: after creating layout or even after placing images run Group images and placeholders action.
Depend on created template, action will group all available image_x and pairing placeholder_x layers to groups: Image & Placeholder 1, Image & Placeholder 2, Image & Placeholder 3 When action group all available image and placeholder layers it will display message (this is example, you wont see this dialog only with 10x10 Template): The object layer image_10 is not currently available. Click Stop.
Because action is interrupted and not played entirely, Photoshop will expand Group images and placeholders layers action in Actions panel. Scroll up if needed and close expanded action.
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Do not forget to click on actions name before running it next time because it may happen that step where action stopped playing is still selected and in that case action will continue running from that step. This is for situation when you have several templates created as open documents and you want to group image and placeholder layers. In Layers panel you will get, after running this action, groups which you can easily rearrange and additional convenience to align and distribute groups.
Move created layout to another document At this point I will explain you how to move all layers to another document. Perhaps, what I am expecting from most of users you want to use images clipped to circles, rectangles, hexagons in another document as a part of design. To move all layers (image and placeholders) right click on images and placeholders group which should be top level group. Choose Duplicate Group option from context menu then in Duplicate Group dialog from Document drop-down list choose name of document to which you want to move all groups and layers inside previously right clicked top level images and placeholders group.
Merge and Rasterize action This action can be used only after grouping image and placeholder layers into Image & Placeholder groups. Purpose of this action is to merge and rasterize image Smart Object layers and vector placeholder shapes. In this way you will minimize number of layers and reduce file size. This action works in the very same way as Group Images and Placeholders action. When it reach all available groups you will see pop-up message: The object layer: layer ... is not currently available, click Stop and twirl close expanded action in Actions panel. As you probably know after merging and rasterizing layers you can not move layers with image to change which portion of image is visible for the simple reason because image will be cropped to vector placeholder bounds.
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