Adobe PHOTOSHOP 5.0 User Manual page 356

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Automating Tasks
The gradient, marquee, crop, polygon, lasso,
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line, move, magic wand, paint bucket, and type
tools, and the Paths, Channels, Layers, and History
palettes can be recorded.
Actions created in Photoshop 4 are compatible
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with this version of Photoshop, but not vice versa.
You can record the Play command listed on the
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Actions palette menu, and record the Batch
command listed in the File > Automate menu to
cause one action to play another.
Modal operations and tools, and any tools that
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record position use the units currently specified
for the ruler. A modal operation or tool is one that
requires you to press Enter or Return to apply its
effect, such as the transformation commands or
the crop tool. Tools that record position include
the gradient, magic wand, lasso, marquee, and
path tools.
When recording an action, keep in mind that
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playback results depend on such variables as the
current background and foreground colors, and
on file and program settings, such as the image
color mode, resolution, and active layer. For
example, a 3-pixel Gaussian blur won't create the
same effect on a 72-ppi file as on a 144-ppi
file. Likewise, Color Balance won't work on a
grayscale file.
Because Photoshop executes the
commands as you record them, it's a good
idea to record a complicated action using a copy
of a file, and then play the action on the
original.
Until you specifically save a set of actions with
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the Save Actions command, actions are automati-
cally saved in the file Actions Palette.psp
(Windows) or Actions Palette (Mac OS) located in
the Adobe Photoshop Settings folder within the
Photoshop folder.
RECORDING AN ACTION
Original when recording started
Diffuse Glow filter recorded
Texturize filter recorded