Actions

Not so much for the begginer.

Crafting Actions Package UPDATED Aug 10, 2014 Added Conditional Action steps to Action Palette Tips.

Contains

• Action Actions Palette Tips.txt
• Action Creation Guidelines.txt
• Action Dealing with Image Size.txt
• Action Enhanced via Scripted Photoshop Functions.txt
• CraftedActions.atn Sample Action set includes an example Watermarking action
• Sample Actions.txt Photoshop CraftedActions set saved as a text file.
• More then a dozen Scripts for use in actions

Example

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It might be worth also looking at the Actions that are supplied with Photoshop (which can be adjusted).

If you click a layer name, Photoshop has to record the layer name.

If you use the keyboard shortcuts for selecting the next layer up or down in the Layers panel, Photoshop won't record the layer name. Instead, the Actions panel will record "Select forward layer" or "Select backward layer". If that will work for your actions, use the keyboard shortcuts for layer navigation. On the Mac they're Option-[ and Option-] , so I assume in Windows they're Alt-[ and Alt-] .

Another way a Photoshop action won't record the layer name is if you choose Select > All Layers.

There may be more ways, like through scripting, but those are the ones I know about.