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insert tool links into actions

Engaged ,
Oct 13, 2023 Oct 13, 2023

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insert tool links into actions, I don't remember what I did in the past but with the latest Photoshop update when I create an action and want to add the brush or other tool it isn't recorded. Do you have any idea how I can solve it.

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Community Expert , Oct 13, 2023 Oct 13, 2023

I believe that selecting most of the "painting" tools like the Brush Tool are recordable in actions.

If you want, however, to actually record using a painting tool such as the Brush tool, then first you

have to enable Allow Tool Recording then your brush strokes will be recorded in a action.

 

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Can you elaborate a little more on what you are trying to do and how this differs from what you were expecting?

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You can't record the selection of a tool directly, but you can indirectly record the selection of a tool by using a tool preset.

 

Scripts can directly load tools.

 

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Hey, that's useful Stephen.

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I believe that selecting most of the "painting" tools like the Brush Tool are recordable in actions.

If you want, however, to actually record using a painting tool such as the Brush tool, then first you

have to enable Allow Tool Recording then your brush strokes will be recorded in a action.

 

tr.png

 

 

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Jeff - thanks for noting the distinction between recording painting vs other tools as an action step! On the topic of "Allow Tool Recording" – the ScriptingListener plug-in has to be uninstalled to do so (most people wouldn't have it installed unless they were into script development).

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Thanks, that's exactly what I didn't remember.

 

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