How to write an action:
1. Open your Actions Palatte and click "create new Set" (the folder icon) on the bottom. Name your set "My Actions" (or whatever)
2. Click the "Create New Action" icon at the bottom (looks like a page with the corner folded) Call it "Sharpen" or whatever you plan to write/record.
3. Notice the red "record" button is now on. WHATEVER you do will be recorded in a list of steps in your actions palatte under the new action you just created. When you are done with all the steps of a certain process that you want to record, click the stop button (little square on far left). The red button should go off.
4. Now you can open any image and hit the play button (triangle at bottom) and all the steps you recorded/wrote (your new action) will be applied instantaneously to that image.
5. Alternatively, to have this new action that you've recorded (or written) applied to a large number of images, go to FILE > AUTOMATE > BATCH and run it on a folder.
Things you might like to write actions for to save time:
Sharpening
Embed copyright info
Curves Brightening
Make a duplicate copy of a tiff and flatten it
Save for Web
SCRIPTS:
to save a folder of tiffs into JPGs in an instant, go to FILE > SCRIPTS IMAGE PROCESSOR
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