Atomic Cupcake Grungy Ink Action
for Photoshop 7.0, Photoshop CS, or Photoshop CS2

Part I -- Installation

1. Copy the "Atomic Cupcake Grungy Ink.atn" file to the location of your choice.

2. Open Photoshop. Open the Actions palette (from the "windows" menu section).

3. Click on the triangle button in the top corner of the Actions pallette and click "load actions" Open the file from the location you chose in step 1.



Part II -- Using the Action

1. Open the image you would like to ink. This can be a background, paper, a photo, etc.

2. Select an area with the marquee tool. It can be any shape you like, but needs to be large (at least 600 pixels wide and tall) to keep from getting filled in completely.

3. Choose the color you want the ink to be as your foreground color. Feel free to be creative.

4. Click on the name of the action in the Actions palette "AC - Grungy Ink"

5. Press play. (The triangle button at the bottom.)


The inked version will be created in a new document -- leaving your original paper or photo in it's original condition. 




Part III -- Ideas for Shapes


1. The obvious squares and rectangles:
	a. Use the marquee tool  on a background image.
	b. Press play on the action.

2. Circles and ellipses:
	b. Click and hold on the marquee tool to bring up "elliptical marquee tool".
	c. Select a circle on a background image.
	d. Press play on the action.

3. Other shapes: You can use the "control-click" method from  to copy any shape.
	a. Use photoshop's "custom shape tool" to make a shape on a layer above a background image.
	b. Hold the control button and click on the shape's layer in the layers pallette. This selects the shape of the shape.
	c. Switch back to your image layer. Now you have your paper selected but with the shape's shape!
	d. Press play on the action. 

4. Inking large tags and other large digital scrapbooking downloads you may be using in your project: 
	a. Open the item. 
	b. Hold the control button and click on the items's layer in the layers pallette. This selects the shape of the item.
	c. Press play on the action. Since the action creates a whole new item, it will not change your original file, so you can save both for future use.