So I have a friend that has TRA, the first one. I've been hearing great things about them so I thought I'd give it a try. MAN ALIVE do they take a long time to process. Obviously some more then others. I tried Super Old Skool and it took like 5 minutes.

It appears there's an HQ and "fast" version. What do you guys use? My friend says he uses some of em but not the ones that take forever. Those appear to be the sweet ones though

Do you guys really have that much patience?

Jon

Depends on the size of the image you're running the action on too. Yes, some of them take awhile, and hopefully Adobe will develop "Actions" that work just like the presets in Lightroom, instant previews. Don't know how it'll happen, but I'm sure it will.

I always use the "fast" versions of the Old Skool actions, but others aren't too bad. Usually 10-30 seconds each.

that's why old school and super old school have a 'fast' option - i recommend you use the fast option.....

that (what chris said) would be AWESOME...i would upgrade for that feature. I hate not remmbering what some do and having to try them all out to find it. I need to take a plain photo and run each one at a time on it and print it so I have a little 5x7 book of prints with all my actions on them I can flip through and find the look i am going for or something.

the TRA you mentioned super dooper old skool is the longest one I have seen -- i usually just run

Kate

depends on the size of the image and, more importantly, the abilities of your computer. my mac pro with 10 gigs of RAM processes all of the TRA actions easily in under a minute.

Hahaaa I love that you said MAN ALIVE ! That is all.

haha my momma says that all the time and I always laugh

Man alive, that is a long time! I only have the free TRA trial actions, and love them-- didn't know that some of them take longer. Are you doing them on every image? Or just the images for a slideshow, album, or website? If you're doin them on every image either
A) Hire someone else to do it for you, or
B) Don't do it on every image.


I would imagine you're just doing it on some select images, though.

+1 for just using the fast versions of those particular actions.

+1 for a faster computer.

Great idea!! I can never remember what they look like.

They are pretty slow. I only use the fast versions...

I have both sets, and there are some in the new set that are time consuming to run also. When possible I run a fast version - If I had someone order a large print I would prob go back and run the big version of it before sending it off to the lab, but for the most part the fast versions are fine.

Haha, I think I've been called out before for "MAN ALIVE".. No clue where it came from.. I played around with the actions a bit more an found that it was only a few that took that long.

I guess the question is.. Do a lot of photographers go to PS for every image, or just the specials?? I see Nate's work with theimageisfound and it looks like every shot is meticulously done, surely his photo booths aren't ALL processed in PS..

Just wondering

Kate, when you've made up your book, would you mind sending me one...

It doesnt have to be very time consuming to run an action on all your images. I like to run smooth-o-matic on a lot of my images so I do it in batches and it's a lot quicker than going one by one


I see you're from Ohio too,cool!

I make sure I have everything but Photoshop closed, and I upgraded the RAM in my machine to 4gb -- it all helps!

10GB and 8 cores works better

Oh, but in all seriousness... make sure you're using an external drive (or something other than your system drive) with plenty of space on it as a scratch disk! This will boost photoshop's performance a noticeable amount, and it's essential to have a good amount of scratch space for photoshop to run properly.

+1 for LR presets. Ya, the TRA old school ones take FOREVER. So, I set out to mimic the effect in LR, got pretty close.

I have a PC that runs all the TRA actions in less than a minute, you don't need an 8core Mac and 10gigs of RAM to run them all. Actions are very processor hungry in any regard, LR presets are instantaneous.