Editing actions

[MikeFromMesa]

Is it possible to edit an action step? I know I can delete existing steps and, by setting the current step and recording, add a step, but what I am asking about is actually editing a single step.

For example, in my attempt to learn about using and recording actions I created a shadow mask using a gradient map and a newly created shodows gradient. If I coud edit one of those steps by changing the selected gradient name to something else I could duplicate the steps and create midtone and highlists masks as well without having to record all of the indiviual steps for midtones and highlights.

As of now I have not found any way to do that, but then I am new enough to Photoshop that I might not know where to look.

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

For many action steps you can double click on the step to set new parameters.

You need to have an image open in photoshop before editing the action steps.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-actions.html

[MikeFromMesa]

Ah. I clicked and right-clicked, but did not double-click. Thank you for the post.

Apparently this does not work for the step I want to edit (which specifies which gradient to select for the gradient map), but it will certainly be helpful for other actions.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

It's also available as an action panel menu item – Record again:

[MikeFromMesa]

I must be missing something. Exactly what is the purpose of Record Again? 

I can go to any action step, click on it, press Record and it will add those steps to the script until I press Stop. Or I can create a new action by pressing Record. What does Record Again give someone that Record itself does not?

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

https://helpx.adobe.com/au/photoshop/using/creating-actions.html

[MikeFromMesa]

This tells me what I can do, not why Record Again is any diffeent from Record, and then Stop.

What does Record Again buy me that Record and Stop does not?

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

All I was pointing out is that there is a menu command that does the same as double clicking a step. This edits the existing step if possible. Recording a new step and deleting the old may offer advantages, but isn't the same thing.

[Zesty_wanderlust15A7]

As the Record Again... option always confuses me, I just literally record again the steps you can't double-click (which are many).