Photoshop Actions – Recording an Action

Adobe Photoshop is a widely used photo editing software that is widely popular among designers all over the world. We use it as our daily photo editing tool and day by day it is becoming more and more popular in our community. This tool has some amazing functionality that helps designers to work shortly. We can take a preview of our previous working history and later on implement that on our current project. Photoshop action is a brilliant feature that helps us to go for multitasking. In this tutorial, we will teach you “Photoshop Actions-Recording an Action” How you can record an action and later on implement it on your current project? Let’s go for a detailed discussion.

What is Photoshop Action?

In short, we can discuss Photoshop Action as a sequence of things done to an image and it is using for editing purposes that can save us again and again. Photoshop Actions are widely using for batch editing. When we are working on a big project and the same kind of editing needs for a group of images then this strategy might be effective for us. It will reduce our working time and make the project a lot smoother than the previous time. Repeating the same task, again and again, could be boring and it will kill our precious time too. For fast and smart work Photoshop has introduced action and we can use the same action for a group of images.

Photoshop Actions – Recording

For an instance, we are editing a group of images and their size is quite different and after doing color correction, retouching, and all other work it is needed all the images with the same shape. Now how do we do that change? The easy solution is to use a Photoshop Action and implement that action for a group of images. After that, see the magic all are converted to the same width and height.

Importance of Photoshop Action while going for a big project

When we are dealing with a giant image editing project then it is quite impossible to manage all the tasks separately. Think for a second when we are dealing with almost a thousand images to complete a project then separately dealing with every image could be a challenging task and in this regard, we must have to take the advantage of Photoshop Action. We can simply select all those images and then apply action if all of them need some type of editing. It is an easy task and makes the project a lot smooth and flexible to the editors.

Recording a Photoshop Action

When we are creating a new action in Adobe Photoshop the command and tools that are being used in the action should not stop until you terminate recording.

Steps of recording a Photoshop action

• Firstly, we have to open up a new file.

• Then from the Action panel, we need to click the new action button either you can directly choose it from the action panel menu.

• Now we have to select the action name and later on set up the additional option that we require here.

• Now we have to assign a color to display the button mode.
• Our next task is to click begin recording. At this time, the action panel will turn red.

• Now it is your time. Perform the action that we want to apply. Not all tasks in the action cannot be recorded at that time we might need to take some other tricks to do that. Sometimes non-recordable tasks need to be done by command. That’s all the total procedure of recording action in Photoshop.

• Now, we need to stop the recording and end this procedure. To do that, we need to select stop from the action panel menu.

Add command to an action

So you are thinking that how we can add something within this recording? Let’s follow the tricks!

• Firstly, we need to select the action name and later on add a new command at the end of the action.
• Now we have to click begin recording button and should follow the procedure like the previous one.

• This time we have to record the additional part.
• Select stop recording and end this procedure.

Final few words

I hope you got the details about Photoshop action and how you can record them? If you do not understand anything do not hesitate to comment below. Our team is always ready to help you.