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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

by Lesa Snider
August 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
989 pages
34h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Managing Actions

If you don’t get your action quite right the first time (and most likely you won’t, which is perfectly normal), you can go back and edit it, though it’s usually easier to just start over from scratch. That said, the Actions panel’s menu (Figure 18-2) includes a few commands that can help you whip misbehaving actions into shape:

  • Record Again. When you choose this option, Photoshop runs through all the steps in the action, opens all the dialog boxes associated with them so you can adjust their settings, and then updates the action accordingly.

    Tip

    When you’re troubleshooting an action, it can be helpful to run it one step at a time; as you run each step, you can see it applied in the image and in your Layers panel, and therefore figure out where the action went astray. To run an action step by step, first expand the action so you can see all its step by clicking its flippy triangle in the Actions panel’s list (so you can’t be in Button mode [The Actions Panel]). Then ⌘-double-click the step you want to start with in the Actions panel (Ctrl+double-click on a PC), or single-click a step and then ⌘-click (Ctrl-click on a PC) the panel’s Play icon. This maneuver also lets you nest an existing action inside a new action that you’re currently recording.

  • Insert Menu Item. For some unknown reason, when you’re creating an action, you can’t record any items in the View and Window menus (such as zooming in or out of your document, fitting it onscreen [very helpful when sharpening], ...

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