Loading Actions from Other People


This is a continuation of the previous tutorial on saving and sharing actions. After all, what good is saving a new action without knowing how to load it? Also, if you're working with actions a lot, it's likely you'll be downloading them from websites such as the Adobe Studio Exchange (http://share.studio.adobe.com). You'll need to know how to get those actions into Photoshop so that you can use them.

Step One

Before you load an action, make sure you have an action to load. This could be an action that someone else has given you, one that you've saved and are relocating to another computer, or one that you've downloaded from the Web. Whatever the source, the action will be a file with a name and an ATN extension. Make sure that you have that action somewhere on your computer.

Step Two

To load the action in Photoshop, click the small, right-facing triangle at the top right of the Actions palette. From the flyout menu, choose Load Actions and you'll see the Load dialog appear.

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If you want to quickly get your Actions palette back to the way it was when you loaded Photoshop, just choose Reset Actions from the Actions palette's flyout menu.


Step Three

Locate the action file that you've previously saved or that someone else has given you. It should have an ATN file extension after the name. (Honestly, the only files that should even appear in this dialog have that extension after it, so you shouldn't have to worry.) Once you locate the action in the Load dialog, select it, and click Load to load it into the Actions palette.

Step Four

You should now see the action set in the Actions palette and if you expand the set, you'll see the action (or actions) that belong to that set. Now, you're free to use it just as you would any other action.

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Get rid of that annoying red eye with a new tool in Photoshop CS2 called the Red Eye tool. It's nested under the Spot Healing Brush tool, and all you need to do is click once on the red eye to remove it.




Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic
The Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic: Automating Photoshop to Get Twice the Work Done in Half the Time
ISBN: 0321441656
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 113

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