Help! Recorded action not removing background for WebP

Question

Hello,

I created a simple action in Photoshop to go from a TIFF file, merge the layers, create a selection the included path and inverse it, delete the background, convert to RGB, and then save as WebP file.

When I do the process manually, everything is fine. But once I play the action, either on one file or in a batch, it doesn't remove the background. Which is weird, because it works when I record the action. I have no idea why the action itself doesn't work. I have a lot of files to transfer to WebP, so I don't want to do this manually for each of them since it would be so time-consuming.

Any idea what the problem could be?

r-bin · Accepted Answer

If the path is selected (highlighted), then the Delete command will delete the path and not the pixels in the selection. If so, you must insert the Deselect Path command before deleting.