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To display the Actions palette:
Choose Window > Actions, or click the Actions palette tab if the palette is visible but
not active.
By default, the Actions palette displays actions in list mode—you can expand and collapse
sets, actions, and commands. In Photoshop, you can also choose to display actions in
button mode (as buttons in the Actions palette that play an action with a single mouse
click). However, you cannot view individual commands or sets in button mode.
To expand and collapse sets, actions, and commands:
Click the triangle to the left of the set, action, or command in the Actions palette.
Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the triangle to expand or collapse all actions
in a set or all commands in an action.
To select actions:
Do one of the following:
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Click an action name to select a single action.
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(Photoshop) Shift-click action names to select multiple, discontiguous actions.
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(Photoshop) Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) action names to select
multiple, contiguous actions.
To display actions as buttons (Photoshop):
Choose Button Mode from the Actions palette menu. Choose Button Mode again to return
to list mode.
Recording actions
Keep in mind the following guidelines when recording actions:
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You can record most—but not all—commands in an action.
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You can record operations that you perform with the marquee, move, polygon, lasso,
magic wand, crop, slice, magic eraser, gradient, paint bucket, type, shape, notes,
eyedropper, and color sampler tools—as well as those that you perform in the History,
Swatches, Color, Paths, Channels, Layers, Styles, and Actions palettes.
In ImageReady, you can drag a command from the History palette to the action in the
Actions palette in which you want the command recorded. You cannot drag italicized
commands from the History palette to the Actions palette. (Commands in italics are
nonactionable.)
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Results depend on file and program setting variables, such as the active layer or the
foreground color. For example, a 3-pixel Gaussian blur won’t create the same effect on a
72-ppi file as on a 144-ppi file. Nor will Color Balance work on a grayscale file.
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When recording actions that include dialog box and palette settings, keep in mind that
only changed settings are recorded. For example, to record an action that sets a
particular preference to its current value, you must first change that preference to some
other value, and then record the action as you change the preference back to its
original value.
