Three incentives for recording actions

This chapter is all about actions. An action allows you to record a sequence …of operations so you can play back those operations automatically. …So the upshot is the next time you find yourself performing a series of steps …that you've performed before, you ought to go ahead and record those steps as an …action, and that'll help to eliminate some of the drudgery of working in …Photoshop in the future. Now, as obvious as that argument is, I …find that a lot of people are reticent to use actions because they seem like more …trouble than they're worth. For example you've gotta figure out your …approach sometimes you have to problem solve, other times you have to …troubleshoot the action to get it to work and if you fall into that camp then I …have three more incentives for you to use actions in the future.…

1 you can use the batch command to plan action on an entire folder full of images …at a time and then you don't even have to be there. …Photoshop will automatically open, save and close those files for you. …