Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Preset actions are actions that have been created by the kind folks at Adobe for Photoshop. You can also get other preset actions from Adobe's Web site, as well as third-party vendors.
Photoshop's present actions are located in a series of files in the Actions folder. The default actions are loaded by, um, default when you first open Photoshop. However, other present actions are available for you to open and use. They include Frames (for putting frames around your images), Text Effects (for enhancing your text), and Image Effects (where you can give you image the appearance of being aged or neon, for example).
Follow these steps to load preset actions:
In the Actions palette, click the palette pop-up menu arrow and choose Load Actions.
Select one of the action sets.
Click the Load button.
Photoshop's additional actions presets also appear at the bottom of the Actions palette pop-up menu. You can add any of them to your current list of actions by choosing the set's name.
The new actions presets appear in the Actions palette, appended after the default actions that are already there. You can show or hide the actions in the Default Actions or Image Effects sets by clicking the expand/collapse arrow in the third column.
You can also make actions available or unavailable for an entire set by clicking the first column in the Actions palette next to the action set's folder icon.
Photoshop's present actions are located in a series of files in the Actions folder. The default actions are loaded by, um, default when you first open Photoshop. However, other present actions are available for you to open and use. They include Frames (for putting frames around your images), Text Effects (for enhancing your text), and Image Effects (where you can give you image the appearance of being aged or neon, for example).
Follow these steps to load preset actions:
In the Actions palette, click the palette pop-up menu arrow and choose Load Actions.
Select one of the action sets.
Click the Load button.
Photoshop's additional actions presets also appear at the bottom of the Actions palette pop-up menu. You can add any of them to your current list of actions by choosing the set's name.
The new actions presets appear in the Actions palette, appended after the default actions that are already there. You can show or hide the actions in the Default Actions or Image Effects sets by clicking the expand/collapse arrow in the third column.
You can also make actions available or unavailable for an entire set by clicking the first column in the Actions palette next to the action set's folder icon.
