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15 tips in Photoshop actions / batch

1. To play only one step in an action, you can choose the steps and press Ctrl click on the "Play" button, below the floating panel in the "action" play the selected action. " (Window> Actions)

Note: To change the parameters of a specific command steps, just double-click this step, showing that the relevant dialog box: the new value of any input will automatically be recorded.

2. To return to the playback from a specified steps, only need to select the steps need to start playing, and then click on the "action" floating panel below the "Play the selected action" button.

3. If you record an action may be used for different size of the canvas, then please send your ruler units into percentage. This ensures that all commands and brush strokes to the canvas size of the record - rather than on specific pixel coordinates.

Tip: To quickly change the ruler units, just right click on the "ruler" [Ctrl + R] (View> Rulers), then choose the unit of measurement you need. You can also access the ruler settings by double-clicking the ruler, or Edit> Preferences> Units & Rulers "menu, the [Ctrl + K, Ctrl +5] Gateway EC5802U Keyboard.

4. When you record or edit an action, you can insert a menu command, only need to select the Insert menu item can be in the "action" floating panel.

Tips: For step generic record in the action, which is a good way, for example, the menu command through the default parameters without being recorded.

5. Press "CTRL + ALT" and "action" floating panel, select Storage action on all the action can be saved as a text file. This is useful when you review or print the contents of an action.

Note: This text file can not be re-loaded into Photoshop's.

6. Action, it has a really powerful feature is that it can play other action, even in the fixed action set. Contains the part of those able to split to the action "subroutine" repeated command, this feature is ideal because it can make the action easier to edit and maintain. When you record an action when the other action and click "Play" button, the Play command will be as an action step is recorded to the current action.

7. Use the File> Automatic> Create Droplet command an action can be saved as a droplet. A droplet is a small executable file, open it to automatically open Photoshop and designed action applied to anything you drag it to the image above.

8. If you default in Photoshop "action" folder, create subfolders to manage your actions, Photoshop can still find these actions, or even floating in the "action" panel, so that they are available.

Note: The action of the sub-folders, or independent action, they will be able to disable the use of a "~" symbol.

9. If you are not satisfied with the results after you run an action, you must revoke all the steps in this action. In fact, do not only need to run an action before the floating panel in the "History" click "to create a new snapshot to create a snapshot, so you can click on the snapshot to restore the image state before the action execution.

Tips: ImageReady in its "History" panel in action as a single step, you can revoke these actions through a step.

10. Press the "Alt" key (Gateway EC5809U Keyboard) "action" action steps to drag the floating panel will be able to copy it.

11. To create a path that contains an action is necessary before you record this action to create a path, then this path is selected, start recording and floating in the "action" panel, select "Insert path.

12. You can use the "Shift" key to select a continuous action steps, use the "Ctrl" key (Gateway NV7921U Keyboard) to the non-continuous action steps included in the range of options. Then you can move, copy, delete, or even play the selected steps.

Note: you can only select the multiple steps in one action.

Batch processing techniques

13. To improve the batch performance (File> Automatic batch processing), can open the "Edit> Preferences> General, and to reduce the number of historical records state, and then find the" History option in the "history" floating panel menu Tick ??removal of the click in the window that opens will automatically create a snapshot first.

14. In a single batch processing of multiple folders, you will need in the Tick "Include all subfolders, create a shortcut to the folder in the source folder for all files you want to deal with.

15. You want to batch multiple actions, you need to create a new action, and record each action you want to deal with in this batch, then use the newly created action to run the first batch.

Tips: This method can also be used in the above 14 tips.