Auto Actions and Your Workflow
Auto actions are an amazing feature of digital art. They can simplify your workflow and save you time and effort when creating your drawings. What are auto actions? Auto actions are sets of recorded steps that can be played back, automating a task or tasks and completing them with the press of a button.
What sorts of tasks can be made into an auto action? Scenario 1: we have a blank manga page, and to start creating art on it, we need a panel layer folder (we can divide the panel later), a sketch layer named Sketch, an ink layer named Ink or Line art, background layers named Background 1 and Background 2, grayscale layers to add shading named Gray 1 and Gray 2, a highlight layer named Highlight, and a sound effect layer named SE. Auto action can do all of this in one click. Scenario 2: we have a blank canvas on which we want to create a color character drawing. We need a sketch layer named Sketch, an ink layer named Ink, a skin color layer named...
