TK8 Special Edition: MY ACTIONS PANEL (Creating and Installing NIK COLLECTION 5 Actions into TK8)
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2022
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I thought it would be easy to create actions to Launch NIK Filters, but I was wrong. With the help of Tony Kuyper, we did find a way to do it and I will teach that to you on today's TK8 Special Edition Video. PLUS, I am making available the Entire Action Set for FREE. I will also show you how to INSTALL them into the BRAND NEW TK8 (MY ACTIONS PANEL). NOTE: I can only verify this working on a Mac. I was unable to test this on Windows Machines. I am running the latest Mac OS. If you are a Windows user please let me know if these actions work for you.
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I thought it would be easy to create actions to Launch NIK Filters, but I was wrong. With the help of Tony Kuyper, we did find a way to do it and I will teach that to you on today's TK8 Special Edition Video. PLUS, I am making available the Entire Action Set for FREE. I will also show you how to INSTALL them into the BRAND NEW TK8 (MY ACTIONS PANEL). NOTE: I can only verify this working on a Mac. I was unable to test this on Windows Machines. I am running the latest Mac OS. If you are a Windows user please let me know if these actions work for you.
ACTIONS DOWNLOAD LINK: www.dropbox.com/s/3k2a115i74moas6/The%20Joy%20of%20Editing%20NIK%20Software.atn?dl=0
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Excellent work, Dave!
Great video Dave. Very clearly explained.
You're the best, Dave. Many thanks.
Thanks for the great actions, Dave. I was struggling trying to set those up own my own.
Dave - this is great, and thanks for making these actions available so quickly!
Happy to do it Steve…
Thank you for the very helpful download. I do not think I could have accomplished the same results the work perfectly. Very Clever action! Joe
Dave: This is extremely useful. You have made my life so easy now. Can I push the envelop a bit and ask if you have a download link for the actions for Topaz plug ins and the neural filters, depth blur? I have all the Topaz plug ins and that would be very useful. If you could that would be great.
Thanks Dave for another great video. I use for my action to invoke a Nik-Filter the following steps (just as a suggestion):
- Merge visible layers
- Move the new layer on top of the layer stack
- Convert it to a Smart Object
- Add the related menu item (i.e. NIK Color FX 5)
Thanks Dave! I have never been one to use Actions much before... just some IR Channel swapping and stuff... but now you've got me into an Action frame of mind! Thanks again and keep'em coming!👋🏻👋🏻
Glad to help!
Thank you very much for the instructional video and for the nice addition in the form of the Nick Collection5 action, for the busy grandfather who currently deals with photo processing on a casual basis, and even less often with taking them. I try to watch your films on an ongoing basis, because they give me a large dose of knowledge in a nutshell and inspire me to further work. I wish you a lot of health, perseverance and good light. As usual, I greet from Poland from the city of "Fortress Przemyśl". Ps. I am using your promotion and advice and currently listening to Sean Bagshaw Lesson Translator to deepen my knowledge of Photoshop and working with it. I am very grateful to you for these advice, because they allow me and your films to deepen my photographic workshop in the field of color and IR photography, which also captivated me.
Great video. You are by far the best TK8 instructor. Unlike SB you can teach to any level of experience w
PS. 🙏
Thanks for the actions!!
Thanks for the tip Dave, had the same issue with other software and I was wondering if any workarounds, you discovered! ;)
Dear Dave,
thank you very much for your effort and thank you for creating the actions for us as well. They work absolutely without any problems! The only thing that does not work properly is the result of HDR Effex. Here I get as a result an image that consists of jumbled squares. However, this also happens when I run HDR Effex directly from Photoshop.
BTW: I use Photoshop without Rosetta on a Mac mini M1.
I get that issue sometimes as well. I believe it is a NI K problem.
As one may not be on the top most layer, a good first step would be to first use Alt-. (Alt or Option period) to navigate to the top.
Thanks!
Thank you Steve, much appreciated.
Thanks
Wonderful, thanks very much Dave for the actions and the explanation of how to create them!
Dave, I cannot delete the “temp” layer. All I get is “delete current layer”. Not sure what you means by using left mouse button to delete, exactly. The action does not show the temp layer. So when dragging temp layer to trash, what am I doing wrong. Have tried it numerous times, so not sure. I am working with Topaz Collections and eventually Photon AI. Maybe when that is out of Beta you could revisit this tutorial for that collection as well as Studio 2. Thanks so much. Not sure where I am going wrong.
Great tip. Since the NIK collection can be used as Smart Filters, would it make sense to add a step to convert the new layer into a Smart Object? This makes the NIK filter editable. Your tips and tricks are always awesome and helpful. Thanks Dave!
Didn’t think of that Stephen but a great idea.
I also think this would be a great alternative if it can be done. I have always used Nik on a smart layer exactly for the reason Stephen says as I have found that on more than one occasion I wanted to make subsequent adjustments - especially when I use Silver Efex. I would be very interested to see if this can be achieved by modifying your Nik actions.
A word of caution about using NIK filters on smart layers if you want to revisit images several months or years in future. Recent updates to NIK have changed the interfaces so they no longer work from smart layers that were set up with earlier versions. To make matters worse installing one version of NIK removes any existing versions, so can't keep NIK 4 and NIK 5 on same system. A lot of people had big problems when they hit this when NIK 4 came out.
Great point David! I really had not thought of that. But when I want to revisit and modify a NIK filter it happens during the initial processing phase or a few days or weeks later. But to you point, can't you simply rasterized the smart layer and be no worse off it you have not used the smart feature in the first place?
@@stevedirector4644 Yes, that should work and is probably the sensible way to use smart layers for any third party filter once you are satisfied with settings, just have to remember to do it as part of workflow. Not just an issue with NIK, in Mac world covers the issue of filters not being converted to Apple silicon and not running if using Photoshop native.
Another Great Video Dave!!! I created some Actions and TK8 makes it so easy to access them now - I love it. But I have a question I noticed that you have the Topaz Denoise, Sharpen AI etc as Actions as well. When I try to create them, and I select them from the Filter Tab - It makes me cancel or save it from Topaz. When I do this - The Action saves that setting. So, when I run the Action - it automatically selects the same setting as before and closes Topaz without letting me choose another one. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks Peter. Did you create your Action using the Fly Out Menu “Insert Menu Item”? I have a video showing how to do that in case you didn’t. Here is the Link: ua-cam.com/video/z3oZsh3v6aQ/v-deo.html
@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly Thank you so much Dave - In my Action I actually created it as a smart object - It still closed and did the previous selection for DeNoise - But then I could just open it up afterwards and select what I wanted. But yours worked a lot better. Thank you for the quick response.
Need a little help! Installed updated PS, Nik and .atn file into new M2 Mac mini. Received "The Command ____ is not currently available" for Color Efex Pro, Analog, Silver and Viveza. Any suggestions?
Hi Dave, I wanted to ask you for information, how did you create the before / after action because it would be very useful ... thanks
Giuseppe here is a link to download the action: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EkUXWtC9rA6aWZv_Msc53CWx-KaXLlP0?usp=sharing
Here is the Link to the video to see how I made it: ua-cam.com/video/INQcl4JFAQI/v-deo.html
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thank you very much Dave
@@giuseppeborracci5951 You are very welcome Giuseppe.
Hi Dave, I have added Topaz DeNoise and Topaz Sharpen Ai to my TK8 Actions but have been unable to add Topaz Photo Ai. Have you been able to do so? Thanks, Patrick.
I have Patrick. Are you able to launch it from filters?
@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly Yes I can access it from filters. It for some reason doesn’t remove the layer at the end properly, just as your warned in your video. I will keep trying. Thanks for your quick response. I really enjoy your videos. Now that you have started the TK8 icon road maps and include the working files you are #1 out there.
Patrick.
Hello Dave, the NIK COLLECTION 5 actions in tk8 my actions have stopped working on my iMac. It says not available at this time.They still work from the dropdown filters menu. I came back to this lesson to find the actions and reinstall but the are not on your dropbox link. I realize that you're not my personal trouble shooter but any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks
Thanks Steve for calling this to my attention. I checked my Nik Actions and have the same issue. I think it is due to the new update, which is a shame. I have since rethought about the actions and I decided that using the Nik Selective Tool made more sense. I set my Nik Selective Tool to not be shown at the startup of Photoshop. I made an action that opens up the Nik Selective Tool whenever I need it. I guess I could go and create new actions for the new update but then the next update will probably cause them not to work again. The Nik Selective Tool gives us the added benefit of opening up our favorite filters and presets which can save some time. In case you would like to download the Nik Selective Tool action here is the link: www.dropbox.com/s/73dx87t72x20oy6/Nik%20Selective%20Tool.atn?dl=0
Hi Dave, unfortunately the download link does not work on my Windows PC ☹
Mike did the action install? If it didn’t, try opening up Photoshop and then double click on the action file. You can also open up Photoshop actions and go to the Fly Out Panel in the upper right corner and go to Load Actions and install it from there. Another commenter verified that the action did work on his windows machine.
Dave, as usual your videos are the BEST! Had one day left on the trial - wasn't sure I really needed it. However, used your link & made the purchase. I'm hoping you'll do more on the way you use it. Also, since Topaz will not longer update & support Studio 2, I would love to see you explore & find ways to use BorisFX Optics for your type of photography. You have an amazing talent to educate! Thanks again!!
Thanks John.
+1
Hello Dave,
I have used the "my actions panel" very often and with pleasure.
After the update to Photoshop v. 24.0 and update to Nik Collection v. 5.2.1 the "my actions panel" does not work anymore.
What am I doing wrong?
Many greetings
Wolfgang
I don't think you are doing anything wrong Wolfgang. The problem is with the new NIK Collection update, my NIK Actions do not work either. I do have an action for the NIK Selective tool which I have been using. I shut off the NIK Selective Tool in the preferences of the NIK Selective Tool and I use this action whenever I need to use NIK and I think it even makes more sense than the actions. When you use this action it will bring up the NIK Selective Tool and you can go open the Nik Collection and also presets or any filters that you have favorited. Here is a Link for that action: www.dropbox.com/s/73dx87t72x20oy6/Nik%20Selective%20Tool.atn?dl=0
Thanks Dave.
Your advice was very helpful.
I am a big fan of your first class videos and have learned a lot there.
Hello Dave,
Unfortunately, the actions for starting NIK filters do not work on Windows 10 computers with the current Photoshop version 24.1.0.
what can we do
with friendly greetings from Germany
Holger
Holger I think it has something to do with the latest update. They don't work for me either. I have been using the Nik Selective Tool and I think it is a better solution because you can access all of the Nik Software and also presets and favorite filters. I made an Action that you can install in TK8 My Actions Panel. Here is the Link to get this action: www.dropbox.com/s/73dx87t72x20oy6/Nik%20Selective%20Tool.atn?dl=0
@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly thank you very much.👋👍
Dale is it possible that the linear profile downladed doesn’t work with the spanish versión of photoshop?
I can’t say for sure Juan but I wouldn’t think so. Do you mean the action?
@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly following your link i just download the linear profile for my Nikon d850. I did the steps of your vídeo and it doesn’t work. I try several times but doesn’t work. I use a Mac, made the zip with the archive that download, and open a jpg file etc etc but nothing happend, the only thing diferent is the lenguage, i work in spanish
@@juandiegogarciamarin5079 Thanks for your interest in linear profiles. The problem is that you are opening a .jpg file. Linear profiles can only be applied to raw image files, and .jpg is NOT a raw image format. Linear profiles only work on raw data directly from the sensor. Once you convert the raw data to pixels, it can no longer have the linear profile applied. So things like .jpg, psd, and .tif files can not utilize linear profiles.
@@TonyKuyper thanks a lot. I’m going to try!!! I really apreciate your help!
Unfortunately, color efex pro and analog don't work as they are for v5 and I own the previous one. Never mind, I will try to do it myself following your how to instructions
Thanks Dave
If you are on Windows, see the comments in the "Paulo Ricardo Ferreira" thread.
@@TonyKuyper Thanks Tony. I am on a Mac machine
With the latest PS update, my NIK collection 5 actions no longer work. Is there an updated way to do this?
The free action set that is.
PS 2023 V24.0.0
Mine no longer works either. I would need to make a new set. I decided to just remove them from my actions and I have an action that launches the Nik Selective Tool, which I think makes more sense. I set the Nik Selective tool to not open up each time I open Photoshop because it is pretty large and gets in the way. You can shut it off in the Selective Tool Preferences. Here is the link to download the Nik Selective Tool Action: www.dropbox.com/s/73dx87t72x20oy6/Nik%20Selective%20Tool.atn?dl=0
@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly Thanks
I down loaded this and it didn’t work on my computer. It says “ the command “Color Effex Pro 5”is currently not available ‘
This action only works for the Nik Collection 5. Do you own the latest version of the Nik Collection. That may be your problem.
@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly yes I just bought it last week after watching your TK fridays.
Can verify the action set works in Windows for the current NIK and Photoshop (23.4.2 20220711.r.603 aa147b3 x64)
Thank you for that information David. I really appreciate it...
Action Download Link yields the following comment "atn files can’t currently be previewed". Any suggestions? Thanks
It will not be able to be viewed because it is just an Action File. Just click on the Download Button just below that message...
Sorry for being a pest! I download the file, then double-click on "The Joy of Editing NIK Software.atn" and get the following error message "There is no application set to open the document "The Joy of Editing NIK software.atn., Search App Store, Choose Application or Cancel".
@@garymancuso3952 try this: make sure Photoshop is open before double clicking on the action.
Hi Dave, I've edit your Nik actions to the recent version 7. I can share the actions with you (and the community) if you like. In this case I need a link where I can upload the file.
You can Click on my contact me link and send me an email. Thanks.
@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly I've send you an mail with the link.
@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly Hi Dave, I send you an mail with the link to my dropbox with the edited actions
@@axelmatthies5622 Thank you
Hi, Mr. Kelly. I don't have the new version of NIK Collection (I still use the old free version that has the Color Efex Pro 4). So I tried to put it to work following (very carefully) each step of the process you presented us, but considering the version of Color Efex I have installed in my system. Well, it didn't work. I'll try to describe what is happening when i run the action up to the point before the action deletes the layer "_Temp NIK Layer_": new layer ("_Temp NIK Layer_") is created and all layers are merged into this new layer. Then the plug-in is launched and I choose one of the effects and apply it. Well, when returning to Photoshop, the plugin doesn't create your layer. Could it be any compatibility issue? Sorry for the long text. I'm trying to understand what is happening.
By the way, even if it won't work for my case, I'd like to thank you, Mr. Kelly. It's always a pleasure to watch your tutorials, especially the ones in TK8 series.
Best regards from Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.
Thanks Paulo. I am sure it would be a compatibility issue.
@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly thanks for your prompt reply, Mr. Kelly.
Paulo--are you on Mac or Windows?
@@TonyKuyper Hi, Mr. Kuyper. I'm on Windows.
@@pauloricardoferreira2841 That might be the problem. Based on conversation with other Windows users, Mac and Windows work differently with regard to the Nik filters. Try this: Delete or uncheck the last step in each of Dave's Actions. This is the step that deletes the "extra" layer that was created. In Windows, this layer might actually be needed since Nik doesn't create a new layer for the effect like what happens on Mac. Windows uses the "temp" layer that the action creates to actually create and store the Nik filter effect. So, if the action deletes that layer, then the filter's effect is also deleted. By deleting or unchecking that last step in Dave's actions, the Nik filter will be retained on the Layers panel in the "temp" layer created by the action. At least, I think it works this way based on a conversation with a Windows user. I don't have the most recent Nik filters so cannot test this.
thanks for the lesson, Dave; but why that work for to open nik software? when instead it's so easy and fast to clic in psd : FILTER /NiK /ViVEZA (or any other)
truly VERY BORiNG with Nik is that, being a great photo software, it doesn't work with the much faster psd version to M1 processors 🥵..... we need to close psd /go to finder /choose psd /open properties /choose Rosetta /open again psd /and work with it much slower .... A GREAT REASON NOT USE Nik if we have M1 computers ---- all softwares made M1 versions, but not Nik ....
I like working with the My Channels panel because everything is right out in the open and organized. Thanks for that info about the Mi . I have an Intel iMac and hopefully it will last a few years more.
Sorry, but this is not true. The current NIK Collection runs without problems and without Rosetta on my Mac Mini M1 as Photoshop plugin.
In the latest release of NIK, and I think the one before, the actual filter/plugin files that run in Photoshop to call the actual applications do seem to have been converted to run native on Apple silicon systems and so can be called from Photoshop when it is running Native. However the actual applications are still identified as Intel in the System Report. So I am not having to run Photoshop in Rosetta on my M1 iMac to run NIK filters even if these themselves are not making full use of the power of Apple silicon.
@@andreask.6872 thank you very much for making me to know that 👍
@@datstheone1 thank you very much for making me to know that 👍
Thanks!
Thank you.
Thanks!
Thank you Steve.