Errors with Adobe Watercolor Artist Actions Set

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April 3, 2020
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I have Adobe Photoshop CC. I just installed the Adobe watercolor actions and brushes. I tried to follow all the steps in the tutorial but when I run it I get more than 10 error messages - mostly action not available or no pixils selected multiple times. The final image looks like a big blur. I uninstalled it and reinstalled following the tutorial, same results. Can anyone help? Here is the action and tutorial I was following: https://create.adobe.com/2019/3/20/transform_photos_int.html

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Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

I was able to reproduce problem. The problem occurs because you are probably painting on Background layer instead on Focus layer. After you see message to paint on Focus layer, click Continue but also select Focus layer then paint. This is solution for messages with error that no pixels are selected, during action play you may see some other error messages which I couldn't catch what is the problem immediatelly.

maureenh45458480Author

Inspiring

I'm not sure what screenshots to send. The actions runs forever, the errors occor throughout the entire process. The blurry pic is the end result. I included some of the steps that the actions goes through and the layers that are produced at the end.

I have not panted on anything. The blury image is the final step in the action. I didn't get to the painting step. I'm going to delete it and try to reload. It seems unlikely that this action has more than 100 steps.

maureenh45458480Author

Inspiring

I deleted everyting and ran it again. It worked this time. Not sure what I did with the first two times I tried this. I got a final rendering and am going to start editing it. Thanks for your help.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Could you please post a screenshot with the pertinent Panels (Layers, Channels, Actions with the expanded Action, Options Bar, …) visible of before and after the first failure?

maureenh45458480Author

Inspiring

There are literally 100+ steps in the action and it took 4 minutes to run. I took screenshots of the first few pages of the actions. The final image has11 layers including backgrond layer.