This is a must for the serious Photoshop user! Power, Speed & Automation explores how to customize and automate Photoshop to increase your speed and productivity. With numerous step-by-step instructions, the authors-two of Adobe's own software developers!- walk you through the steps to best tailor Photoshop's interface to your personal workflow; write and apply Actions; and use batching and scripts to process large numbers of images quickly and automatically. You will learn how to build your own dialogs and panels to improve your production workflows in Photoshop, the secrets of changing keyboard shortcuts and menus, and ways to tune your system for optimal performance. Writing new processes using JavaScript is also covered, as well as leveraging Variables with data sets. Learn how to get more work done- more easily and quickly- with this essential guide! *This book can be used with any version of Photoshop through CS6!** Part of the new Digital Imaging Masters Series, series edited by the most well-known digital photography educator-Katrin Eismann *Ideal for professional photographers who want to advance their skills in digital image capture, image processing, and high-quality output to remain competitive in a variety of image-making and related fields *Contains step by step detail and screenshots to walk the reader through difficult scripting exercises