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Explaining an action with a custom stop

Explaining an action with a custom stop - Photoshop Tutorial

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Explaining an action with a custom stop

In this exercise, I'm going to show you how to pause the playback of an action by adding a custom stop. The idea behind the custom stop is it either provides an alert message to the user so that they know how your action works, or it just goes ahead and stops the playback temporarily and instructs them to go ahead and perform a manual step that the action can't accommodate. So imagine for a moment that you've created a series of actions for me, and I work for you. I'm not the most proficient Photoshop user. I'm just doing what you tell me to do. You feed me a bunch of these images here, and I've got to play back this action. So you want to make sure everything is clear. Anyway, you give me this image here that you shot, and it's called Vertical garden.psd. It's this Vertical garden that's growing on the side of a grocery store wall in Avignon. It features these rich, lustrous emerald greens, and I'm thinking these are awesome colors. They're going to come out great when we print this…

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