User's Manual

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS2
User Guide
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—although commands previously excluded are not
executed.
To play an action on a file
1 Open the file.
2 Do one of the following:
• 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.
• If you assigned a key combination to the action, press that combination to play the action automatically.
• 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:
• Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) the Play button in the Actions palette.
• Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS), and double-click the command.
To undo an entire action
❖ Do one of the following:
• (Photoshop) Take a snapshot in the History palette before you play an action, and then select the snapshot to undo
the action.
• (ImageReady) Choose Edit > Undo [action name].
To 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 palette menu.
2 Specify a speed:
Accelerated Plays the action at normal speed (the default).
Step By Step Completes each command and redraws the image before going on to the next command in the action.
Pause For Specifiesthe amount of time Photoshopshouldpause betweencarryingout each commandinthe action.
3 Select PauseFor AudioAnnotationtoensurethateachaudio annotation in an action is played before thenextstep
in theactionisinitiated.Deselectthisoptionifyou want an action to continue whileanaudio annotation is playing.
4 Click OK.