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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.

You're the best, Dave. Many thanks.

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)

Excellent work, Dave!

Great video. You are by far the best TK8 instructor. Unlike SB you can teach to any level of experience w PS. 🙏

Dave - this is great, and thanks for making these actions available so quickly!

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!👋🏻👋🏻

Great video Dave. Very clearly explained.

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

Thanks for the great actions, Dave. I was struggling trying to set those up own my own.

Thanks for the actions!!

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.

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.

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.

Thanks for the tip Dave, had the same issue with other software and I was wondering if any workarounds, you discovered! ;)

Thanks!

Wonderful, thanks very much Dave for the actions and the explanation of how to create them!

Thanks

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.

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?

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!

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?

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

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!!

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.

Hi Dave, I wanted to ask you for information, how did you create the before / after action because it would be very useful ... thanks

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

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

Hi Dave, unfortunately the download link does not work on my Windows PC ☹

I down loaded this and it didn’t work on my computer. It says “ the command “Color Effex Pro 5”is currently not available ‘

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

Dale is it possible that the linear profile downladed doesn’t work with the spanish versión of photoshop?

With the latest PS update, my NIK collection 5 actions no longer work. Is there an updated way to do this?

Action Download Link yields the following comment "atn files can’t currently be previewed". Any suggestions? Thanks

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.

Can verify the action set works in Windows for the current NIK and Photoshop (23.4.2 20220711.r.603 aa147b3 x64)

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.

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 ....

Thanks!

Thanks!