Adobe 13102498 User Guide - Page 618

PHOTOSHOP CS3 611 User Guide View actions by name only ❖ Choose Button Mode from the Actions palette menu. Choose Button Mode again to return to list mode. Note: You can't view individual commands or sets in Button mode. Select actions in the Actions palette ❖ Click an action name. Shift-click action names to select multiple, contiguous actions, and Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) action names to select multiple, discontiguous actions. Play an action on a file Playing an action executes the action's recorded commands in the active document. (Some actions require that you make a selection before playing; some can be executed on an entire file.) You can exclude specific commands from an action or play only a single command. If the action includes a modal control, you can specify values in a dialog box or use a modal tool when the action pauses. Note: In Button mode, clicking a button executes the entire action-although commands previously excluded are not executed. 1 If necessary, select objects on which to play the action, or open a file. 2 Do one of the following: • (Illustrator) To play a set of actions, select the set name, and click the Play button in the Actions palette, or choose Play from the palette menu. • To play an entire single action, select the action name, and click the Play button in the Actions palette, or choose Play from the palette menu. • If you assigned a key combination to the action, press that combination to play the action automatically. • To play only a part of an action, select the command from which you want to start playing, and click the Play button in the Actions palette, or choose Play from the palette menu. • To play a single command, select the command, and then Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) the Play button in the Actions palette. You can also press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS), and double-click the command. In Photoshop, to undo an action, take a snapshot in the History palette before you play an action, and then select the snapshot to undo the action. Specify playback speed You can adjust an action's playback speed or pause it to help you debug an action. 1 Choose Playback Options from the Actions palette menu. 2 Specify a speed, and click OK: Accelerated Plays the action at normal speed (the default). Note: When you play an action at accelerated speed, the screen may not update as the action executes-files may be opened, modified, saved, and closed without ever appearing on-screen, enabling the action to execute more quickly. If you want to see the files on-screen as the action executes, specify the Step By Step speed instead. Step By Step Completes each command and redraws the image before going on to the next command in the action. Pause For __ Seconds Specifies the amount of time the application should pause between carrying out each command in the action.