Editing Actions - Adobe PHOTOSHOP 5.0 User Manual

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Automating Tasks
3 For Action, choose the desired action.
For Source, choose Folder to play an action on
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files (including subfolders) already stored on your
computer. Click Choose to locate and select the
folder.
5 To ensure that the files are opened from the
specified folder, select Override Action "Open"
Commands. Any Open commands that were
recorded as part of the original action are ignored.
For information on using the Import option to
batch-process imported files, see Chapter 3,
Getting Images into Photoshop.
For Destination, choose an option:
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None to leave the files open without saving
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changes (unless the action included a Save
command).
Save and Close to save the files in their current
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location.
Folder to save the altered files to another
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location. Click Choose to specify the destination
folder.
If you chose Folder, select Override Action "Save
In" Commands to ensure that the processed files
are saved to the specified destination folder and
not to a location recorded with the Save As or Save
a Copy commands.
Saving files using the Batch command options
always saves the files in the same format as
the original files. To create a batch-process that saves
files in a new format, record the Save As or Save a
Copy command and then Close command as part
of your original action. Then choose None for the
Destination when setting up the batch process.
7 For Errors, choose an option:
Stop for Errors to suspend the batch process
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until you confirm the error message.
Log Errors to File to record each error in the file
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without stopping the batch process. If errors are
logged to this file, a message appears after
processing the files alerting you to review the error
file. If you select this option, click Save As and
name the error file.
To batch-process using multiple actions,
create a new action and record the Batch
command for each action you want to use. This
technique also lets you process multiple folders
in a single batch. To batch-process multiple
folders, create aliases within a folder to the
other folders you want to process.

Editing actions

You can edit actions in the following ways:
Rearrange actions, or rearrange commands
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within an action and their order of execution.
Add commands to an action.
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Record new commands or new values for actions
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with dialog boxes.
Change action options such as the action name,
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button color, and shortcut key.
Duplicate actions and commands. This helps
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you experiment with changing an action without
losing the original version, and for creating an
action based on an existing one.
Delete actions and commands.
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Reset the actions to the default list.
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