Actions & Batch for automation.

Primatte fully supports Actions and Batch processes in Photoshop. This process works especially well with Primatte 3.0's new Automask feature.

Actions will work best on a group of photos that were taken under similar lighting and studio conditions. Batching is an extremely powerful Photoshop workflow that works fluidly with Primatte 3.0 and the AutoMask feature.

Create an Action.

To start off your automation, create an Action that has Primatte as part of it. Turn on AutoMask. Once the Action is complete, then apply that Action via Batch to a folder full of images. Of course, you can apply AutoMask manually to individual images, but the real power is when you batch it on hundreds of images.

In Photoshop, create and start an Action script. Apply Primatte 3.0 to your photograph, click on the AutoMask button, and turn on the AlwaysOn checkbox. Then click OK to apply Primatte to your Photoshop layer. You should now be back in Photoshop with the green/blue background removed.

At this point you can click on the Stop Recording button in the Actions palette or you can do other things like save the image, copy in a background from a different file, or many other things. All of this will be recorded to the Action Recording button.

We have great training for Actions and Batches on our Tutorials page.

Tie into a Batch.

The best use of AutoMask is as part of a Batch process. For folks who process large volumes of images, this is a huge new feature.

Once you have created an Action for Primatte, you can apply the Action to a group of photographs. In Photoshop, select the File> Automate> Batch menu item and set up a process. That Action will apply the same mask settings to all of the photographs that are batched.

Batch allows you to run an Action on entire folders full of images. Instead of opening each image and applying the Action, you use Batch to apply the Action automatically to the folder contents. Photoshop opens each image, automatically applies the specified Action, and then does the same thing for the next image, and the next, and so on.