Skip to main content
Participating Frequently
January 9, 2025

P: Selective Color Adjustment parameter error when recorded as an Action

  • January 9, 2025
  • 3 replies
  • 447 views

I'm using the Selective Color Adjustment layer to create a Red mask by turning the Black in all the Colors in the dialog to +100% except the Red which is - 100%. The Absolute radio button is selected.

 

The problem is when I incorporate these parameters into a recorded Action. The Action defaults back to the Relative radio button which ruins the result I'm trying to achieve as a repeatable option.

 

This seems like a programming bug.

3 replies

rsphotoAuthor
Participating Frequently
February 1, 2025

 

As you can see from the second step of the action, all the parameters are set, however the drop down doesn't provide enough room for the final parameter (absolute) to be viewed. If you double click "...3 more" it opens the adjustment layer itself which does have the absolute button ticked. When I run this action back it defaults to relative.

As you can see from the above Action script, I figured out a work around that adds a separate step that reselects the Selective Color Adjustment layer and then selects the Absolute button. This seems to make the Action sticky and now works.

 

But... I'm still having an issue with creating my intended full Action. Ultimately I want to take the current selection (based just on the Red info) and create a new channel mask based on that selection, all recorded as an Action. To this end I further recorded to the same Action a step to add a named Channel Mask and then delete the Selective Color Adjustment layer. See attached screenshot below. However while this Action works when I play each Action Step individually, it fails when I play it "all at once"

 

This is how it should be after running the Action (which works if I run it one step at a time)

This is how it ends up after running the Action in in one go.

 

Community Manager
January 26, 2025

I was unable to reproduce the situation myself. 

 

Please confirm that all steps in the recorded Action have in their details either "Method: absolute" or no Method property.

A screenshot of the detailed view of the Action steps or the converted JavaScript would also be helpful.

Sameer K
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 9, 2025

@rsphoto Thanks for the details. I've shared this with the team for review. 

Best, 
Sameer K