Automate photoshop creating and recording actions

When you create an action, Photoshop records the commands (including any specified values) and tools you use, in the order you use them.

The following guidelines can help you in designing actions:

• Most, but not all, commands can be recorded. However, you can allow for commands that cannot be recorded. (For more information, see Inserting nonrecordable commands.)
• The gradient, marquee, crop, polygon, lasso, line, move, magic wand, paint bucket, and type tools, and the Paths, Channels, Layers, and History palettes can be recorded.
• Actions created in Photoshop 4 are compatible with this version of Photoshop, but not vice versa.
• You can record the Play command listed on the Actions palette menu, and record the Batch command listed in the File > Automate menu to cause one action to play another.

• Modal operations and tools, and any tools that record position use the units currently specified for the ruler. A modal operation or tool is one that requires you to press Enter or Return to apply its effect, such as the transformation commands or the crop tool. Tools that record position include the gradient, magic wand, lasso, marquee, and path tools.
• When recording an action, keep in mind that playback results depend on such variables as the current background and foreground colors, and on file and program settings, such as the image color mode, resolution, and active layer. For example, a 3-pixel Gaussian blur won’t create the same effect on a 72-ppi file as on a 144-ppi file. Likewise, Color Balance won’t work on a grayscale file.

Because Photoshop executes the commands as you record them, it’s a good idea to record a complicated action using a copy of a file, and then play the action on the original.

• Until you specifically save a set of actions with the Save Actions command, actions are automatically saved in the file Actions Palette.psp (Windows) or Actions Palette (Mac OS) located in the Adobe Photoshop Settings folder within the Photoshop folder.