INTRODUCTION
In this world which is reeling with the shortage of time every one wants that the work they are doing should finish within a certain time so that they can engage themselves in some other work.
In order to meet this problem, computers were designed which proved to be one of the great relievers. Then came in the concept of automation of task i.e. a sophisticated task could take place by itself with the help of computers and robots.
During the last 5-6 years there has been a tremendous amount of development in the field of graphics which includes photography, animation etc. So the need for image editing soft wares increased and thus image editing soft wares like Adobe Photoshop, Image ready, GIMP etc were developed.
In order to make the job of professional photographers and animators easy and quicker automation was introduced in this field also. With the help of which they could easily edit many images and animation at the same time.
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AUTOMATION IN PHOTOSHOP
The automate commands simplify complex tasks by combining them into one or more dialog boxes.
You can send files directly from the file browser to any of the automation plug-ins that processes multiple images
To use an automated command:
Choose File > Automate, and then choose any of the commands
There are various automate commands available in Photoshop and ImageReady like :
1. Batch
2. PDF Presentation
3. Create Droplet
4. Conditional Mode Change
5. Contact Sheet II
6. Crop And Straighten Photos
7. Fit Image
8. Multi-Page PDF To PSD
9. Picture Package
10. Web Photo Gallery
11. Photo merge
In the next few pages these commands are discussed
THE BATCH COMMAND
The Batch command lets you play an action on a folder of files and subfolders. If you have a digital camera or a scanner with a document feeder, you can also import and process multiple images with a single action. Your scanner or digital camera may need an acquire plug-in module that supports actions.
You can also import PDF images from Acrobat Capture or other software programs.
When batch-processing files, you can leave all the files open, close and save the changes to the original files, or save modified versions of the files to a new location (leaving the originals unchanged). If you are saving the processed files to a new location, you may want to create a new folder for the processed files before starting the batch.
To batch-process files using the Batch command:
1. Choose File > Automate > Batch.
2. For Play, choose the desired set and action from the Set and Action pop-up menus.
3. For Source, choose a source from the pop-up menu:
 Folder to play the action on files already stored on your computer.
Click Choose to locate and select the folder.
4. Select Override Action "Open" Commands if you want Open commands in the action to refer to the batched files, rather than the filenames specified in the action.
5. Select Include All Subfolders to process files in subfolders.
6. Select Suppress File Open Options Dialogs to hide File Open Options dialogs. This is useful when batching actions on camera raw files.
7. Choose a destination for the processed files from the Destination menu: None to leave the files open without saving changes
Save and Close to save the files in their current location, overwriting the original files.
8. Select Override Action "Save As" Commands if you want the Save As instructions from the Batch command instead of the Save As instructions in the action.
THE PDF PRESENTATION COMMAND
The PDF Presentation command lets you use a variety of images to create a multi page document or slide show presentation. You can set options to maintain image quality in the PDF, specify security settings, and set the document to open automatically as a slide show.
To create a multipage PDF Presentation:
1. From the main menu, choose File > Automate > PDF Presentation.
 All the image files displayed in the File Browser will be added to the
PDF Presentation. In the File Browser, you can select the image files you want for the PDF Presentation.
2. If you did not launch the PDF Presentation command from the File
Browser, click Browse and navigate to select files for the PDF Presentation.
Select the Add Open Files option to add files already open in Photoshop.
You can remove any unwanted file by selecting it in the Source Files window, and then clicking the Remove button.
The files in the Source Files window are used to generate the pages in the
PDF Presentation, starting with the topmost file for the first page and progressing down the list for subsequent pages. To reorder a file in the sequence, select the file and drag it to a new position in the list.
3. In the Output Options area of the PDF Presentation dialog box, select one of the following:
Multi-Page Document
Creates a PDF document with the images on separate pages.
Presentation
Creates a PDF slide show presentation.
4. Select the View PDF After Saving option if you want Adobe Acrobat or the Adobe Reader to open the PDF after it's created.
5. If you selected Presentation as the Output Option, in the Presentation
Options area, you can specify the following options:
Loop After Last Page
Specifies that the presentation will automatically start over after reaching the end. Transition
Specifies the transition from one image to the next.
6. Click Save.
7. In the Save dialog box, enter a name for the PDF Presentation and select a destination for the saved file. Click Save.
8. In the PDF Options dialog box, select the options you want, and click
OK.
Encoding
Determines the compression method (Zip or JPEG).
Save Transparency
Preserves transparency when the file is opened in another application. This option is not available if the file contains a spot color channel or does not contain transparency.
Image Interpolation
Anti-aliases the printed appearance of a low-resolution image.
PDF Security
Specifies security options such as password protection and restricted access to a file's content. Choose 40-bit or 128-bit RC4 encryption for a lower or higher level of security.
9. Click OK. Photoshop closes the PDF options dialog box and creates the
PDF Presentation.
THE CREATE DROPLET COMMAND
A droplet is a small application that applies an action to one or more images that you drag onto the droplet icon in Photoshop or in ImageReady. You can save a droplet on the desktop or to another location on disk.
Creating Droplets for repeating jobs can save you a lot of time, for example if you were to open 100 images and reduce their dimensions by 50%, reduce their quality by 30% and save them in GIF format. Then it would be a very boring job to do, and definetely it would take some of your valuable which you could spend on other important things.
Fortunatley these kind of jobs can be transferred to Photoshop, you just have to tell it what to do and how to do it and Photoshop will complete it in no time.
To create a droplet from an action in Photoshop:
1. Choose File > Automate > Create Droplet.
2. Click Choose in the Save Droplet In section of the dialog box, and select a location to save the droplet.
3. Select the desired set and action from the Set and Action menus.
4. Set Play options for the droplet
5. Select a destination for the processed files from the Destination menu 6. Select Folder to save the process files to another location.
7. If you chose Folder as the destination, specify a file-naming convention .
TO USE DROPLET
To use a droplet, simply drag a file or folder onto the droplet icon in
Photoshop or in ImageReady. If the application you used to create the droplet is not currently running, the droplet launches it.
In ImageReady, you can control droplet processing in the following ways:
• To temporarily pause processing, click Pause. Click Resume to continue the processing.
• To cancel processing, click Stop.
THE CONDITIONAL MODE CHANGE COMMAND
Conditional Mode Change changes the color mode of an image to the mode you specify, based on the original mode of the image. Record this command in an action to ensure that images use the correct color mode and avoid generating unwanted error messages.
THE CONTACT SHEET II COMMAND
Contact Sheet II produces a series of thumbnail previews on a single sheet from the files in the selected folder.
Contact sheets let you easily preview and catalog groups of images by displaying a series of thumbnails on a single page. You can automatically create and place thumbnails on a page using the Contact Sheet II command.
To create a contact sheet:
1. From the main menu, choose File > Automate > Contact Sheet II.
2. In the Contact Sheet II dialog box, specify the images to use by
3. In the Document area, specify the dimensions, resolution, and color mode for the contact sheet. Select Flatten All Layers to create a contact sheet with all images and text on a single layer. Deselect
Flatten All Layers to create a contact sheet in which each image is on a separate layer and each caption is on a separate text layer.
4. In the Thumbnails area, specify layout options for the thumbnail previews. 5. Select Use Filename As Caption to label the thumbnails using their source image filenames. Use the menu to specify a caption font and font size.
6. Click OK.
THE CROP AND STRAIGHTEN PHOTOS COMMAND
Crop and Straighten finds, separates and straightens one or more photographs from a single scan.
One should always keep an eighth of an inch between the images in your scan, and the background (typically the scanner bed) should be a uniform color with little "noise".
Images with clearly delineated outlines work best with the Crop and Straighten Photos command. To use the Crop and Straighten Photos command:
1. Open the scanned file that contains the images you want to separate.
2. Select the layer that contains the images. Alternately, draw a selection border around one or more images to generate just those images into separate files.
3. Choose File > Automate > Crop and Straighten Photos. The scanned images are processed, and then each image opens in its own window.
THE FIT IMAGE COMMAND
Fit Image command fits the current image to the width and height you specify, without changing its aspect ratio.
THE MULTIPAGE PDF TO PSD COMMAND
Multi-Page PDF to PSD converts each page of a PDF document you select to a separate Photoshop file. Portable Document Format (PDF) is a versatile file format that can represent both vector and bitmap data and can contain electronic document search and navigation features. PDF is the primary format for Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat. For more information on the PDF format, Some PDF files contain a single image. Other PDF files (called Generic PDF files) may contain multiple pages and images. When you open a Generic PDF file, you can choose which page to open and specify rasterization options. If you want to open an image (versus a page) from a
PDF file, you can use the File > Import > PDF Image command.
One can also use the automate command for the above purpose.
To create a new Photoshop file for each page of a multiple-page PDF file
(Photoshop):
1. Choose File > Automate > Multi-Page PDF to PSD.
2. Under Source PDF, click the Choose button, and select the file you want to import images from.
3. Under Page Range, specify a range of pages to import.
4. Under Output Options, specify a resolution, choose a color mode, and set the Anti-alias option for rasterizing each page of the PDF file. Under
Destination, enter a base name for the generated files. Then click the
Choose button, and select the location where you want to save the generated files.
THE PICTURE PACKAGE COMMAND
The picture package command is a very useful automation tool that allows us to resize and adjust images on a sheet for maximum utility of the space available . Different layout options and number of images on a single page can be chosen by the user.
This option can be selected by File->Automate->Picture Package and then selecting the resolution , mode , source from which to import the image etc.
THE WEB PHOTO GALLERY COMMAND
The web photo gallery command is used to create a webpage i.e. a HTML or HTM file which acts like a gallery of images . This can be directly published on the internet and can also be used as an offline gallery.
This feature can be used by going to File->Automation->Web Photo Gallery and selecting the source destination from where the images are to be imported , the layout design of the gallery such as vertical or horizontal scrolling or linked , feedback dialog boxes may also be selected .
ACTIONS
An action is a series of commands that you play back on a single file or a batch of files.
For example, you can create an action that applies an Image Size command to change an image to a specific size in pixels, followed by an Unsharp Mask filter that resharpens the detail, and a Save command that saves the file in the desired format.
Most commands and tool operations are recordable in actions. Actions can include stops that let you perform tasks that cannot be recorded (for example, using a painting tool).
Actions can also include modal controls that let you enter values in a dialog box while playing an action. Actions form the basis for droplets, which are small applications that automatically process all files that are dragged onto their icon.
Both Photoshop and Image Ready include a number of predefined actions, although
Photoshop has significantly more user-recordable functionality than Image Ready. You can use these actions as is, customize them to meet your needs, or create new actions
You use the Actions palette to record, play, edit, and delete individual actions. This palette also lets you save and load action files.
In Photoshop, actions are grouped into sets--you can create new sets to better organize your actions In Image Ready, you cannot group actions into sets.
Actions can be assigned to different components in Photoshop and ImageReady by using the action palette . By default only one action set is present which contains the packaged actions.
APPLICATION AREA OF PHOTOSHOP
Photoshop has find it’s new application area in the field of Dentistry . The Success story of Dr.
Martinez who is a well known dentist proves that Photoshop can be used in this field.
His Story is discussed below with the some graphics.

So, that was the story of Dr. Martinez .Around the globe many other doctors and person belonging to different profession are gaining benefits from Adobe’s One of the best image editing software,
PHOTOSHOP.
Adobe has recently launched Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop 9.0