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CHAPTER 15
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Automating Tasks
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Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS),
and double-click the command.
Note: Because an action is a series of commands, you
can use the Edit > Undo command to undo only the
last command in an action. To undo an entire
action, take a snapshot in the History palette before
you play an action, and then select the snapshot to
undo the action.
Setting playback options
(Photoshop)
Sometimes a long, complicated action does not
play properly, but it is difficult to tell where the
problem occurs. The Playback Options command
gives you three speeds at which to play actions,
so that you can watch each command as it is
carried out.
When working with actions that contain audio
annotations, you can specify whether or not the
action will pause for audio annotations. This
ensures that each audio annotation completes
playing before the next step in the action is
initiated.
To specify how fast actions should play:
1
Choose Playback Options from the Actions
palette menu.
2
Specify a speed:
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Accelerated to play the action at normal speed
(the default).
Step by Step to complete each command and
•
redraw the image before going on to the next
command in the action.
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Pause For to enter the amount of time
Photoshop should pause between carrying out
each command in the action.
3
Select Pause For Audio Annotation to ensure
that each audio annotation in an action completes
playback before the next step in the action is
initiated. Deselect this option if you want an
action to continue while an audio annotation
is playing.
Click OK.
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Editing actions
After you record an action, you can edit it in a
variety of ways. You can rearrange actions and
commands in the Actions palette; record
additional commands in an action; rerecord,
duplicate, and delete commands and actions; and
change action options.
Rearranging actions and commands
You can rearrange actions in the Actions palette
and rearrange commands within an action to
change their order of execution.
To rearrange actions:
In the Actions palette, drag the action to its new
location before or after another action. When the
highlighted line appears in the desired position,
release the mouse button.
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