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Search bar for finding actions or brushes in PS

Community Beginner ,
Sep 23, 2024 Sep 23, 2024

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I've been using PS for nearly 20 years and have always been frustrated by the actions panel. I use button view and have quite a collection of actions to help process images, perhaps too many. It's VERY time consuming to scroll through them all trying to locate the one I want to use. I know them by name or what they do for me, but locating them is difficult as the are not loaded alphabetically.

 

For years, I've been trying to figure out where the search bar is to simply type in the action name to locate and implement a specific action I want to use. I've never found this and it seems quite obvious, rudimentary and necessary for efficiency when processing photos. Why can't I find this?? Please tell me there IS a search bar option to alleviate the time suck that searching row by row for a name in a sea of hundreds can be?!!!  It's baffling that a beast of a program like PS would not have a simple, time saving, tool like this.

 

Also, is it possible to create multiple tabs in the action panel where I could sort the actions by type (for example a tab for skin/teeth/eyes actions, a tab for sunlight overlays, a tab for color tone actions, a tab for all black and white actions, etc) to help shorten the search party and organize them into smaller specific groups to locate what I'm looking for?

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Adobe Employee ,
Sep 23, 2024 Sep 23, 2024

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Hey, @jamieb17977390. Welcome to the Photoshop Community. While I've shared your other post about Actions to the team for review.

Responding here to address that the Brushes panel has a live-search options from quite a while already.

 

 

We hope this helps. Thanks!
Sameer K

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Oct 15, 2024 Oct 15, 2024

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I would also LOVE a search function on the actions! I have a long list of actions I reqularly use which I have to scroll through. 

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