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P: Action stops when trying to apply layer effect

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October 20, 2011
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I've created an action in Photoshop CS5 which should apply a layer effect (inner shadow) to a textlayer. But every time i run this action it stops at the point the layer effect should be applied and I have to select the shape (I hope, this is the correct description, as I only have the german version of Photoshop. There it's called "Kontur") and click "OK" to let the action finish. Is there a solution to this problem?

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

Updating the steps in the current version should work just fine.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks! That make sense... do you have any idea how can I migrate them?

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

Those actions may not have all the settings, which will force the dialog to show. This could happen for actions recorded on older versions of Photoshop (which didn't have all the same options for styles).

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

I was using Photoshop CC and encounter a similar issue: For actions having steps with custom layer style, some of those set layer style steps will always pop up dialog, even the show dialog switch is off.

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gpiphoto

Participant

I have an action set up to lower resolution and place a copyright on the photos.
It works sometimes. Sometimes it hangs up, most often on first "Set Layer Styles of Current Layer", Sometimes on second "Set current layer". sometimes it won't hang up at all 🙂 All I have to do is hit enter, but it gets annoying when I'm doing 30 or more photos at once.

Thanks,
bndphoto

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Jeanne Rubbo

Adobe Employee

This has been fixed in CS6.

The workaround for CS5 and earlier is to save a custom style, and then apply that style (via the Styles panel) when recording the action.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

Hello Jeanne

Thank you for your reply. When using a custom style it works now (tried it before already, but it seems, that the Global Light checkbox has to be checked in order to work).

Kind regards
Urs

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Jeanne Rubbo

Adobe Employee

This is actually a known issue that happens when you change the contour setting on a layer style to something other than the default.

For now, the workaround is to save a custom style, and then apply that style (via the Styles panel) when recording the action.

Let me know if this doesn't work for you, or if you need more information.

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J453

Legend

Interesting. If you play step 12, a dialog pops open when it shouldn't. Seems tied to the fact that the Global Light checkbox is off, because if I double click that step to update it's settings so Global Light is checked/enabled, and rerun the action it runs correctly.

I'll have someone look into it.

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