3. A Call to Actions: Creative Suite’s Native Automation Tool
Action is eloquence.
—From Coriolanus (William Shakespeare)
Actions are Creative Suite’s version of application macros—mechanisms that record and play back the steps a user performs manually. Able to act on both single files and (in Batch mode) multiple files, actions are easy to create, edit, and use, and they provide a great introduction to automation.
Actions are perfect for smaller automation routines that don’t require a great deal of customization, such as a typical Photoshop workflow of resizing, cropping, and changing the resolution and color space of a small batch of images. Using an action, you can quickly and easily record the steps you perform manually for the first file ...
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