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Adobe Photoshop Help
Automating Tasks
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Do one of the following:
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Choose Insert Set Optimization Settings to
current file format
from the Actions palette
menu. (The command indicates the optimization file format currently applied to the
selected slice.)
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Drag the droplet icon
from the Optimize palette onto the Actions palette.
Playing actions
Playing an action executes the series of commands you recorded in the active document.
You can exclude specific commands from an action or play a single command. If the action
includes a modal control, you can specify values in a dialog box or use a modal tool when
the action pauses.
Note:
In button mode, clicking a button executes the entire action—though commands
previously excluded are not executed.
To play an action on a file:
1
Open the file.
2
Do one of the following:
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To play an entire action, select the action name, and click the Play button in the
Actions palette, or choose Play from the palette menu.
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If you assigned a key combination to the action, press that combination to play the
action automatically.
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To play part of an action, select the command from which you want to start playing, and
click the Play button in the Actions palette, or choose Play from the palette menu.
To play a single command in an action:
1
Select the command you want to play.
2
Do one of the following:
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Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) the Play button in the Actions palette.
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Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS), and double-click the command.
To undo an entire action:
Do one of the following:
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(Photoshop) Take a snapshot in the History palette before you play an action, and then
select the snapshot to undo the action.
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(ImageReady) Choose Edit > Undo
Action Name
.
Setting playback options (Photoshop)
Sometimes a long, complicated action does not play properly, but it is difficult to tell
where the problem occurs. The Playback Options command gives you three speeds at
which to play actions, so that you can watch each command as it is carried out.
When working with actions that contain audio annotations, you can specify whether or
not the action will pause for audio annotations. This ensures that each audio annotation
completes playing before the next step in the action is initiated.
