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Old November 22nd, 2008
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Actions you can record yourself. If you have a lot of files that need identical formatting/processing then they are ideal to use either individually as needed or batch process. Recording actions is not hard, just need to know you are doing the right things each time (can always go back & edit the action if needed by adding or removing a particular process.)

Click the Actions palette, then click the small arrow at top right of the palette & a drop down menu will appear. There you can create a new Action & then start to record all the processes you do until finished (then press stop recording), else experiment with the included ones. I think you will find some sites around that offer extra actions to download & use.

Keep in mind how much you wish the action to do itself. Be it just processing or create a new document & process it from scratch. Can go right through to saving the document in a particular format. As mentioned above, you can create sub versions of a particular action of variations are needed.

Actions can save a lot of personal processing time & personal time, particularly if the actions are complex processing that would normally take a long time, concentration & finesse to do yourself.

If you experiment with the sample ones, watch how they work you will get a better idea. Also open the little arrows to see each specific process, this is where they can be customised too. From memory a process can be changed in order or added reasonably easily if editing the action.
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