Actions updates: New UI, Search and Suggestions AVAILABLE NOW

Good day,

I used to have an action where I had files open with transparent backgrounds. I added a layer, then moved it behind my artwork, filled it with white, and saved it using Export > Save for Web (legacy option). 

In this version, it is not working. My artwork is coming out white.

I worked in the previous Beta version and still works in the current Photoshop version.

Bonus feature: single history state is nice but would be so much better to have it available as specific action setting rather than global thing for all actions.

Im sure there is some more UI updates coming soon and I cant wait for it enough as currently the new UI for me is totally unusuable:

- action set names always visible on the "button mode" - if I have 10 different actions in 10 separate sets ideally I wanna see just the 10 buttons to run actions,

- new action buttons are very big - i was able to comfortably squeze 30 button on the actions panel in my custom workspace, i can only see about 10 new button without scrolling now:/

This should be a new tool, and not a replacement for the actions panel. You guys have no idea how some users use the actions panel. First of all, removing the original option of recording your... ACTIONS should be returned. This new version is not an "actions" panel, its an AI suggestions panel. Keep them seperate. Actions are specific events triggered in succession by users for specific purposes. By removing this, you are literally pushing out designers who create action script sequences with buttons for people to use photoshop in a safe (non destructive) way that are not designers or trained on photoshop at all. Some designers may not want to prompt everhting they do. Imagine that. Why is there no section to enabole the "classic" view. Could it be that not every user wants to completely abandon a system they have been using for over a decade and replace it with an ai copilot? Now I have to run an old version of photoshop to do basic things i want automated without having to confer to my forced ai art director. 

Love the look and love the increased functionality especially the option for single history state. 

One thing still missing is the ability to continue an action that had a programmed stop. I notice this is not possible as of yet. And I understand this may be complicated if the actions are reflected as a single step in history. Hoping to see it soon.

I have been testing lately and it looks very good!

Hi @Pete.Green and Adobe,

I've sent a shortened version of this feedback in the app I really wanted to make sure it gets to the right people. This update does seem to have some great improvements espectially for newbies or people dabbling in photoshop. However, as a creative pro, who has been using Adobe apps for over 20 years, and has a relatively repetitive workflow (like many of us do), I have some big concerns that make me incredibly nervous. I sincerely hope someone from Adobe can assure us of the direction of Actions is not going to remove current functionality.

1.  First and foremost, please do not remove the old way actions work. I rely heavily on actions to reduce the amount of hours I spend working, and to be honest this is one of the big things that keeps me as a photoshop user in comparison to other (cheaper) tools. 
2. HOTKEYS - further to my point above, we need to be able to perhaps pin these actions and map them to hotkeys (or midi keys). I heavily use two Streamdecks with Keyboard Maestro for all my Adobe apps, and not being able to call actions would again increase the amount of hours spent working. I noticed that the "yours" panel doesn't have any hotkeys (which if I'm being honest is anxiety inducing).
    
3. The Live View is freakin cool - that's an awesome addition 🙂
4. Please consider rethinking the whole tabs within a panel that Photoshop seems to be doing more of. Just make a brand new panel so we can decide the layout of Photoshop as what you're doing is increasing the potential amount of steps to take to perform an action, especially if I have to go back and foward from "suggested" to "mine" (this is the same feedback I gave with the new adjustments panel - just keep them as completely separate panels). Oh and don't call them legacy as that just feels like you're going to phase it out.
5. While the search is a great feature, the thought of having to type in what I want all the time again slows me down. I edit hundreds of images, I have a workflow (like many creative pros) 
6.  If you're playing around with the capability of actions I do have feedback on a few things which should be easy and make actions more powerful but I feel like with this new direction Adobe may not care about this much loved/used feature.

While I do love the ability to search and find new actions, I cannot stress enough that if this is being introduced without keeping the current way actions work I won't be upgrading to the latest version.

Sorry!

Sami

Signed in here to report a bug until I spotted this post with "While we work on create, edit, and detail views..." on my way. Couldn't find any info in PS Beta itself and wondered for a while why the Create button is disabled in the new Actions view. Suggestion: Perhaps in cases like this in the future it would be helpful to add a temporary tooltip on disabled buttons (due to still in development) saying something like "Coming soon! Switch to Classic Actions view to create actions: flyout menu > Classic Actions". Another place to mention temporarily disabled/not yet available features would be the "What's New..." page in PS. At least those were what I intuitively checked first, in that order, until nothing was mentioned and so on and so forth being here with an intention to report a bug...

Otherwise the new view seemed great, and Action search definitely seemed to return some inspiring stuff! Normally I just create and use my own actions, so will probably test it out more once Create feature and Detail views are out.