Playing and managing actions – Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 v.14.xx User Manual
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Playing and managing actions
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Accelerated
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Play an action on a file
Specify playback speed
Manage actions
Manage action sets
For more information about actions
Play an action on a file
Playing an action executes the action’s recorded commands in the active document. (Some actions require that you make a selection before
playing; some can be executed on an entire file.) You can exclude specific commands from an action or play only a single command. If the action
includes a modal control, you can specify values or use tools in a dialog box when the action pauses.
In Button mode, clicking a button executes the entire action—although commands previously excluded are not executed.
1. If necessary, select objects on which to play the action, or open a file.
2. Do one of the following:
(Illustrator) To play a set of actions, select the set name, and click the Play button in the Actions panel, or choose Play from the panel
menu.
To play an entire single action, select the action name, and click the Play button in the Actions panel, or choose Play from the panel
menu.
If you assigned a key combination to the action, press that combination to play the action automatically.
To play only a part of an action, select the command from which you want to start playing, and click the Play button in the Actions panel,
or choose Play from the panel menu.
To play a single command, select the command, and then Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) the Play button in the
Actions panel. You can also press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS), and double-click the command.
In Photoshop, to undo an action, take a snapshot in the History panel before you play an action, and then select the snapshot to undo the
action.
Specify playback speed
You can adjust an action’s playback speed or pause it to help you debug an action.
1. Choose Playback Options from the Actions panel menu.
2. Specify a speed, and click OK:
Plays the action at normal speed (the default).
When you play an action at accelerated speed, the screen may not update as the action executes—files may be opened, modified,
saved, and closed without ever appearing on-screen, enabling the action to execute more quickly. If you want to see the files on-screen as
the action executes, specify the Step By Step speed instead.
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