Teach Yourself Visually™: Adobe® Photoshop® CS3

Chapter 13. Automate Your Work

With Photoshop's action commands, you can automate repetitive imaging tasks by saving sequences of commands and applying them automatically to many image files. Other Photoshop commands enable you to streamline your work by helping you create Web photo galleries, picture packages, contact sheets, and panoramas.

Record an Action 262

Play an Action 264

Batch Process by Using an Action 266

Create a Contact Sheet 268

Create a Picture Package 270

Create a Web Photo Gallery 272

Create a Panoramic Image 274

Convert File Types 278

Using Tool Presets 280

Record an Action

You can record a sequence of commands as an action and replay it ...