| 32.
Choose Edit > Stroke 33.
The "Stroke" window open.
Set Property of
Stroke 1px Location: inside Click
OK 34.
Choose the Rectangular Marquee Tool and Create
a rectangular selection of width 78 px. and height 15 px. at the bottom of the
image.
35.
Fill the rectangular selection with color #FAC200.
36. Choose #FFFFFF white color as a Foreground color.
Choose
the Line Tool from the Tool Box and create
a horizontal line of 1 pixel an the top border of the yellow patch.
37. Steps to incorporate Copyright Note in
the thumbnails.
Select the Type tool, Choose Font = Arial, Regular,
Font Size = 11 px., Text color as #743700
Press Alt + 0 + 1 + 6 +
9 for copyright icon i.e ©, type health.com.
Choose Move
tool and Place the text aligned in the center of the yellow patch.
38. In the Layers Panel, Click Flatten Image
39. All the steps to be recorded in Actions is completed, So the recording has
to be stopped. In the Action window in the bottom bar, click on "Stop"
.
The action steps in the action window will appear as shown in the below
image.
40.
The Action is ready, to run this action in the "rawimages" folder,
Automate > Batch has to be used.
41. Close all the images open on the stage, then Choose File
> Automate > Batch
42.
The "Batch" window opens
43. In Set > Select
the "thumbnail-action" set from the drop down.
44. In
Action Select the action name "Thumbnail"
45. In Source
select folder from the drop down 46.
Click Choose and select the Folder
47. The folder path is displayed as D:/site/rawimages (path will be dependent
as per the users choice of saving folder)
To
specify a Folder name where the finished files will be saved.
48. In
Destination choose Folder 49.
Click Choose and
select the folder path where the files has to be saved.
50. The folder
path is displayed as D:/site/finalimages (path will be dependent as per
the users choice of saving folder) 51.
At the bottom of the window in Errors choose Stop For
Errors, in case of any errors the process will be stopped and notified.
52. After all the settings as shown in the below image. Click OK
53.
The images from the rawimages folder will automaticaly open, the action
will run and get saved in Destination folder named finalimages.
This method becomes very easy when there are many images and a common effect has
to be applied to all the images. Regards, Manoj
Kotak.
The author is Director of Image Online Pvt. Ltd.
Developer of
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