How to use a droplet to create an action in Photoshop

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March 1, 2024
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Is there a way to use a droplet to create a Photoshop action? I created the action a while back, but I need to make an adjustment. Since then I lost the original action file (.atn). Can I somehow import the droplet into Photoshop as an action? Or maybe how can I turn a droplet (.exe) into an action (.atn) file?

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Correct answer Stephen Marsh

There are scripts to extract the embedded action from the droplet.

Search the forum.

Edit:

https://forums.adobe.com/message/10528502#10528502

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ps-scripts/files/xtools/v2.3/

c.pfaffenbichler

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Stephen Marsh

Correct answer

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There are scripts to extract the embedded action from the droplet.

Search the forum.

Edit:

https://forums.adobe.com/message/10528502#10528502

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ps-scripts/files/xtools/v2.3/

Dustin42Author

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The links are very helpful. I did find x tools but was having a bit of trouble figuring it out but ran out time last week. I'll check out that first link as well. Thanks very much for the help!

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Download the entire xtool repo and unzip to a folder. Then run the droplet decompiler script from the apps folder using File > Scripts > Browse:

...xtools v2.3/apps/DropletDecompiler.jsx

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