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Automate Boring, Repetitive Stuff?

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Go under the Window menu and choose Actions to bring up the Actions panel. This is Photoshop’s built-in tape recorder, where we basically record boring, repetitive tasks, and then have Photoshop automate the process by playing them back for us super-fast. To create a new recording (or action, as it’s called in Photoshop), click on the Create New Action icon at the bottom of the Actions panel (it looks the same as the Layers panel’s Create a New Layer icon). In the New Action dialog, name your action, then assign ...

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