Playing Actions; To Play A Single Command In An Action; To Undo An Entire Action; To Specify Playback Speed - Adobe PHOTOSHOP CS2 User Manual

Playing actions

Playing an action executes the series of commands you recorded in the active document. You can exclude specific
commands from an action or play a single command. If the action includes a modal control, you can specify values
in a dialog box or use a modal tool when the action pauses.
Note: In Button mode, clicking a button executes the entire action—although commands previously excluded are not
executed.
To play an action on a file
1 Open the file.
Do one of the following:
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To play an entire action, select the action name, and click the Play button
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from the palette menu.
If you assigned a key combination to the action, press that combination to play the action automatically.
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To play part of an action, select the command from which you want to start playing, and click the Play button in
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the Actions palette, or choose Play from the palette menu.

To play a single command in an action

1 Select the command you want to play.
Do one of the following:
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Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) the Play button in the Actions palette.
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• Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS), and double-click the command.

To undo an entire action

Do one of the following:
(Photoshop) Take a snapshot in the History palette before you play an action, and then select the snapshot to undo
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the action.
• (ImageReady) Choose Edit > Undo [action name].

To specify playback speed

You can adjust an action's playback speed or pause it to help you debug an action.
Choose Playback Options from the Actions palette menu.
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2 Specify a speed:
Plays the action at normal speed (the default).
Accelerated
Step By Step Completes each command and redraws the image before going on to the next command in the action.
Specifies the amount of time Photoshop should pause between carrying out each command in the action.
Pause For
3 Select Pause For Audio Annotation to ensure that each audio annotation in an action is played 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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in the Actions palette, or choose Play
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