Error - The command Select is not currently available in Photoshop

Guys, i almost banged my head on the wall after finding out it was only than my file wasnt set to RGB and 300dpi. *For non-native english speakers, also remember your software must be installed in english.

I solved it. Its simple:

1. Name the layer to put action as 'Background' and lock

Load the following manually:

1. The Real Paint patterns .pat in PS presets (patterns option)
2. The Real Paint .tpl in PS presets (tools option)
3. The brushes .abr preset (brushes option

Finally Run the Script manually. Go to file, script, browse, and find the .jsx file

Have fun 🙂

I was having this issue. The action rcognizes the layer names that it was created with. When you start recording, make the first step renaming the base layer. Any copies made in successive steps will derive their names from that orignal name. In this way, the action will always be working on the same layer names. Maybe name the base layer the action name so you can easily recognize it. I named mine after my dog.

So....

through trial and error I have found that if the image you are running the actions on is not "labeled" exactly what the first image is labeled when you made the actions it gives you the "select command is not available" and so on. For instance, when I created my actions the original image I used as the template is labeled "Layer 1". If any other image that I am trying to edit using actions is labeled something other than "Layer 1" than I feel the actions will not work properly because it looks for the exact labeling in the tree of actions. This has just worked for me as I was having this problem myself. 

Try labeling the photo you are trying to edit using actions the same as whatever you labeled the image when you recorded the actions in the first place 

Hello dear, had the same issue: you need to have the Photoshop Version when the Action was created. That is why I always keep PS 2017 on my PC , best Julie

Hi,

I am having the same issues. I am actually getting a lot of commands unavailable. Is it because I am using someone else's created action? But I went through these comments, and figured out that I can't create a layer mask with my background locked. It doesn't give me the option to create it unless I unlock the background. I am using the 23.1 version. This is what I am seeing on my screen:

You might try stopping the action and seeing what it's unable to select. I was having a problem and it turned out the brush that it was trying to select wasn't loading, I had to brush files with the same name and the wrong one was loaded.

It took me hours but at the end i solved it. In my particular case i was having a problem with brushes needed. I installed them and somehow they disappeared from the library in the middle of the action process. I loaded the brushes to the preset manager like five times one after another and they finally stayed there. IT WORKED.

I'm not a developer but it shouldn't be impossible to free the action commands from layer name on Adobe's end instead of asking users to fix layer name by hand 35 times for an action that has a hundred commands, this is ridiculous.

Many thanks you are right, the name of the layer was wrong!! solved!