Actions, Scripts, and Plugins!
Actions
The Photoshop user community is large and it includes some very capable and generous people who have created clever automations that extend Photoshop beyond what the team has created. These automations can take a couple of forms: actions, which most users can make, or scripts, which require real programming knowledge to create, but not to use.
To create or run an action, you’ll need the Actions panel. There you’ll see a default Set (folder), unsurprisingly called Default Actions. Sadly, they’re not very useful. The most practical actions are those that reliably and quickly perform a series of tedious tasks so you don’t have to.
Consider this scenario: You’re faced with a few hundred images that all need ...
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