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Photoshop Actions - Automate Your Photoshop Workflows With Actions - HigherLearningLab.com Photoshop actions allow you to automate repetitive actions. The more you systemize your Photoshop workflows the more you'll be able to leverage the power of Photoshop actions and save loads of time by having the software do the heavy lifting. The great thing is that Photoshop actions are quick and easy to create. Well, that's not entirely true. How fast you can create the actions depends on how complex your workflow is. You'll see what I mean in a minute. First, you need to identify a workflow that you want to automate. This needs to be something that is done the same way EVERY time. In this example, I've chosen to automate the process of resizing images. Next, you'll need to have the Actions panel active. Click on the Window menu then click on Actions. If the Actions panel is already in your work area it will have a play button (right pointing triangle) as it's icon. Click on it open the actions you currently have. You may have none, and that's okay. Next, click on the folder icon in the Actions panel to create a new Action Set for your Photoshop Actions. Give it a descriptive name, so you know which actions will live in that action set. You can have many actions in a action set, or just one. It's up to you. Next, make sure you click on the action set folder you just created to highlight it and click on the page icon to create a new action. Give it a descriptive name as well. Now it's time to start recording your action. How it works, is you click on the circle icon at the bottom of the actions panel. The circle will turn from light gray to red, meaning it's recording. Now, all of the actions you take are recorded. It records menus you open, keyboard shortcuts you use, and things you click. It does not record actual mouse movements or delays in mouse movements. Once the recorder is on, go through the photoshop workflow you're automating just like you normally would. When you're done, click on the record button again to stop recording. Now, to test your newly created action you set up at the beginning of your workflow as you normally would. Then click on the action you just created to highlight it and click on the play button at the bottom of the actions panel to begin the action. Hopefully it does exactly what you want. If not, make note of where it went awry. Depending on the situation you can choose to re-record the action or delete certain parts of the action and re-record those. You can see each action by clicking on the down arrow to the left of action and then highlight the ones you want to delete and drag them to the trash can in the actions panel. That's all there is to it. You'll probably have to do some trial and error at first, but you'll get the hang of it. Let me know in the comments below which awesome Photoshop workflows you've automated! I hope this tutorial helps you. Visit http://higherlearninglab.com today for more great tech tutorials!