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Photoshop CS2
Bluefish444 Photoshop Exporter adds an important plug in for broadcast graphic designers by allowing you to quickly see
your Photoshop images through any Bluefish444 video card. This is important for checking color, positioning, line width, and
other graphic issues that can change when moving images from a VGA to a broadcast monitor.
Features
• Support for NTSC, PAL, HD720p, and HD1080i.
• Pre built actions for hotkey updates.
• Plug-in outputs both the image and the alpha channel on dual-link cards.
• Support for 8-bit and 16-bit images.
• Automatic YUV conversion.
• Support for ALL Bluefish444 cards.
Using Actions with the Bluefish444 exporter
Bluefish444 exporter plug-ins includes an Action preset file called Bluefish444.atn which is loaded to the Photoshop actions
folder in the installed folder.
Actions can be can be linked to the Bluefish444 export plug ins by assigning keyboard Shortcuts
To load and assign shortcuts the Bluefish444 actions.
1. Open up the Actions dialog box and select the Options arrow button.
2. Select the Bluefish444 option. this will load the Bluefish444 pre defined actions to the Actions Pallet.
3. Select an Action, say “TFT - Bluefish444 NTSC Export”, select the options arrow button. This will option the dialog
side bar as before.
4. This time select the Action Options The action dialog box will open.
5. In the function key drop down list, assign a function Key of your choice.
6. Click on OK.
7. Now open up a project in NTSC then select F5 and you will see the project window output to the Bluefish444
SDI/Analog output on your broadcast monitor.