Action Basics, Part 1: Running Actions
Submitted by mitch on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 20:59.
I got up this morning and cut six short videos to walk viewers through the basics of Photoshop automation with actions. How to run them. How to create them. How to edit them.
This is the first video in the new series. It covers the topic of loading actions and running them. You'll learn how to run actions in their entirety and how to step through them step-by-step.
Coming next: Creating actions
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Single Stepping -- After a fashion
You can single step through an action in the way I mentioned. If you want to run a step and then move along to the next step without having to close dialogs, you can hold down the ctrl/cmd key as you double-click on an aciton step. Optionally, you can hold down the ctrl/cmd key and click the Play Action icon. That will run the action step and move the selection to the next step.
It's still a kludgy way of implementing single stepping through an action, IMO. For example, it can cause issues with some keyboard monitors, like Sticky Keys.