Adobe Photoshop

Actions & Scripts

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.

In this section, I’d like to briefly introduce you to both. No, we won’t be creating any scripts because this isn’t a programming manual. But I will discuss how to create and use actions, as well as where to find and how to use scripts.

Actions

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, ...