How to use action action in Photoshop

The action "action" in Photoshop can help us quickly complete a series of repetitive tasks, and when we use "action", we actually play a series of commands for a single file or a batch of files. For example, if you often want to handle a large number of similar digital photos, you need to adjust the photos to a uniform size, and automatically adjust color, contrast, brightness, color, and so on, where you can record all of these commands as actions, and then play these actions for these files.

Photoshop provides a number of preset actions that you can use directly to help users do many common tasks, such as creating image effects or text effects, making textures or frames, and so on.

Now let's say we're going to do a lot of pictures in batches, in addition to resizing the photos, in addition to color, contrast, and brightness, include the "Photo card Corner" effect shown in Figure 1, where you can change the "photo card Corner" in the action preset after you have finished recording the basic image Adjustment command Action is recorded together, which is called "Add action to Action" in the title.

Figure 1 Photo Card Corner effect

In fact, the implementation of the method is not very troublesome, below we use Photoshop CS2 Chinese version as an example to introduce the complete procedure.

Recording basic image adjustment actions

1. Start Photoshop CS2 Chinese version, open one of the pictures you want to work with, select menu Command Window > action, let the action palette appear before, click the arrow on the upper right corner of the palette, open the Palette menu, and select New action, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2