Chapter 13. Automating Your Work

Automating 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

  • Play an Action

  • Batch Process by Using an Action

  • Create a PDF of Images

  • Create a Web Photo Gallery

  • Create a Panoramic Image

  • Convert File Types

  • Batch Rename Images

  • Using Tool Presets

Record an Action

You can record a sequence of commands as an action and replay it on other image files. This can save you ...

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