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Anonymous
December 10, 2016
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[HELP] Photoshop actions not applying to the canvas directly !

  • December 10, 2016
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Whenever i try to do actions like (Bucket tool, Undo, Type tool), those kinds of action are not applying to the canvas directly, and i have to do another action (Moving the object, color something etc) to trigger the changes made by my first action. Why is this happening? How do i fix this ?

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    edusbaze
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    December 26, 2016

    I am having the same issue, does photoshop have a 2016 version???

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    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    December 10, 2016

    Most likely because you did not craft the actions well or some unanticipated current document state caused the action to fail to work the way you recorded it. Actions often depend on some condition or state. After you record an action you should always expand all the action's steps so, you can see and review all the settings that Photoshop recorded for each step. You should also test you action to make sure it works the way you want it to work. I just recorded a simple one step paint bucket action to contiguously fill with the foreground color.  When I expanded the action I see the Photoshop recorded I click on the tope left corner of the document and the it should fill using the current foreground color but it did record contiguous? So I investigated for me Photoshop records contiguous in a backwards fashion.  If you uncheck continuous in the tool option bar Photoshop will record without contiguous into the action step contiguous is used by default.  So the action step I recorded in was recorded correctly.  So I then tested it and immediately received an error message the command fill was currently was not available??? Looking at the Layers palette I no layer was targeted so I targeted layer 1 played the action and nothing happened so I targeted the background layer and played the action  again nothing happened. So I targeted layer 1 and deselected then played the action and layer 1 was filled with red. I changed the color to green and targeted the background layer played the action and the background layer was green.  But I wanted the action to fill the selection on layer 1. So I select the area targeted layer 1 changed the color to blue and fixed the action to fill the selection. When you fix the action always save the action set so do will not loose your action if you preferences are reset.

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    Anonymous
    December 10, 2016

    Ok, let explain my current situation more clearly,

    Here's what im doing with my photoshop,

    1st Pic : Nothing, everything looks normal

    2nd Pic: I tried to use bucket tool to fill the entire background with red color (Look at the history panel, i actually already did it, but why isn't the canvas take effect ?)

    3rd Pic: Ok let me try something, i tried to move the color (Now there is the red color i've been waiting for).

    4th Pic: Now, let me try something else, i use marque tool to draw a rect, and fill it with blue color, but still nothing.. even when the history recorded my action

    5th Pic: Let's move it (same condition as 3rd pic)

    6th pic: Now, let me marquee it, and delete it. (still.. nothing happen)

    7th pic: This time, i clicked on Lasso Tool (boom, the blue color is gone).

    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    December 11, 2016

    What you are not doing is expanding you actions so you can see what options and setting have been recorded for your action steps. You do not know what you recorded  you only know the type of steps you recorded. You do not know what the steps actually do.  You need to examine the steps  details to see if you recorded what you wanted to record. You will never be good at recording actions if you do not examine and test your actions.

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