Saving And Loading Actions; To Load A Set Of Actions; To Restore Actions To The Default Set; Organizing Sets Of Actions - Adobe PHOTOSHOP CS2 User Manual

Saving and loading actions

By default, the Actions palette displays predefined actions (shipped with the application) and any actions you create.
You can also load additional actions into the Actions palette.
Note: Photoshop actions are not compatible with ImageReady, and vice versa.
Actions are automatically saved to the Actions Palette folder in the Adobe Photoshop or Adobe ImageReady CS
Settings folder. If this file is lost or removed, the actions you created are lost. You can save your actions to a separate
actions file so that you can recover them if necessary. In Photoshop, you can also load a variety of action sets that are
shipped with the program.
Note: The default location of the Adobe Photoshop CS Settings folder varies by operating system. Use your operating
system's Find command to locate this folder.
To save a set of actions
1 Select a set.
Choose Save Actions from the Actions palette menu.
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Type a name for the set, choose a location, and click Save.
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You can save the set anywhere. However, if you place the file in the Presets/Photoshop Actions folder inside the
Photoshop program folder, the set will appear at the bottom of the Actions palette menu after you restart the appli­
cation.
Press Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Command+Option (Mac OS) when you choose the Save Actions command to save the
actions in a text file. You can use this file to review or print the contents of an action. However, you can't reload the
text file back into Photoshop.

To load a set of actions

Do one of the following:
Choose Load Actions from the Actions palette menu. Locate and select the action set file, and then click Load. (In
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Windows, Photoshop action set files have the extension .atn.)
Select an action set from the bottom of the Actions palette menu.
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To restore actions to the default set

Choose Reset Actions from the Actions palette menu.
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Click OK to replace the current actions in the Actions palette with the default set, or click Append to add the set
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of default actions to the current actions in the Actions palette.

Organizing sets of actions

To help you organize your actions, you can create sets of actions and save the sets to disk. You can organize sets of
actions for different types of work—such as print publishing and online publishing—and transfer sets to other
computers.
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