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4 If you want the option to continue the action
without stopping, select Allow Continue.
5 Click OK.
Setting modal controls and excluding
commands
After recording an action, you can insert a modal
control. This lets you pause a command to display
its dialog box and specify different values, and to
manipulate a modal tool to apply new settings. (A
modal tool requires pressing Enter or Return to
apply its effect.)
If you do not use a modal control, Photoshop runs
the command using the values specified when you
first recorded the action (and the dialog box does
not appear).
You can also exclude commands that you don't
want to include as part of a recorded action or that
you don't want to play when running the action.
To set a modal control:
Make sure that the Actions palette is in list view.
1
If necessary, deselect Button mode in the Actions
palette menu.
Do one of the following:
2
Click the column to the left of the command
•
name to display the dialog box icon. Click again to
remove the modal control.
To turn on or disable modal controls for all
•
commands in an action, click the column to the
left of the action name.
To turn on or disable modal controls for all
•
commands in an action or set, click the column to
the left of the action or set name.
A
B
A. Action with a modal control B. Modal control
To exclude or include a command:
Do one of the following:
Click to clear the check mark to the left of the
•
command name. Click again to include the
command.
To exclude or include all commands in an action
•
or set, click the checkbox to the left of the action or
set name.
A
B
C
A. Action with excluded commands
B. Included command C. Excluded command
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