{"id":1344,"date":"2012-01-20T02:58:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T06:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2012-01-20T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T07:00:44","slug":"photoshop-cs5-how-to-create-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/photoshop-cs5-how-to-create-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop CS5: How to Create Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recording an action in <a title=\"Rock pattern text with floral design using Photoshop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/rock-pattern-text-with-floral-design-using-photoshop\/\">Photoshop CS5<\/a> is incredibly simple. Simply open up the \u201c<strong>Actions<\/strong>\u201d palette and hit the <strong>new action button<\/strong> seen in the image below.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"imageclose-1345\"><div class=\"lb-album\"><a href=\"#image-1345\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/How-to-Create-Actions1-300x191.jpg\"  class=\"size-medium wp-image-1347 aligncenter\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/div>              \r\n<a href=\"#imageclose-1345\" class=\"css3lightbox-close\">\r\n\t\t\t\t   <div class=\"lb-overlay\" id=\"image-1345\">\r\n                   <img src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/How-to-Create-Actions1.jpg\" alt=\"image-1345\">\r\n                   <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This should pop open a new window containing various options for the action. Here you can name the action and place it in a set. You can also assign a keyboard shortcut that will activate the action immediately in Photoshop CS5. This is quite handy for those actions you find yourself using on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"imageclose-1346\"><div class=\"lb-album\"><a href=\"#image-1346\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/How-to-Create-Actions-in-photoshop1-300x142.jpg\"  class=\"size-medium wp-image-1348 aligncenter\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/div>              \r\n<a href=\"#imageclose-1346\" class=\"css3lightbox-close\">\r\n\t\t\t\t   <div class=\"lb-overlay\" id=\"image-1346\">\r\n                   <img src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/How-to-Create-Actions-in-photoshop1.jpg\" alt=\"image-1346\">\r\n                   <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you hit \u201cRecord\u201d in the window above, all that\u2019s left is to carry out the steps you\u2019d like to be recorded in the action. Keep in mind that selection sizes, saving and other very specific steps will be replicated exactly in the action. Try to keep your steps generic enough that they\u2019ll work on the full range of images you\u2019ll need the action to apply to.<br \/>\nWhen you\u2019ve finished carrying out all the desired steps, hit the \u201cStop\u201d button in the <strong>action menu<\/strong>. Then hit the \u201cPlay\u201d button to perform the action on another file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recording an action in Photoshop CS5 is incredibly simple. Simply open up the \u201cActions\u201d palette and hit the new action button seen in the image below. This should pop open a new window containing various options for the action. Here you can name the action and place it in a set. You can also assign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,5],"tags":[101,100],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photoshop","category-photoshop-tips","category-web-design-tips","tag-create-actions-in-photoshop-cs5","tag-how-to-create-actions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}