I have downloaded an action (*.ATN) file from a trusted source and saved it in the Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Presets/Actions folder. When I explore this folder via windows it shows the action I saved plus the default actions that came with Photoshop. When I click on "load actions" from the actions pallete I get a message that says the same folder is empty. Under file type it is looking for the correct file type (*.ATN).
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View 3 Replies View RelatedPhotoshop CS6 has been working like a dream, and recently it has pushed some very large files.
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But, upon trying to open Photoshop this morning, I get these two messages:
Could not load actions because an unexpected end-of-file was encountered.Could not initialize Photoshop because the Preferences file was invalid (it has been deleted).         - although the file was still in the AppData...Adobe Photoshop CS6 Settings.
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Tried to 'restore' Preferences:
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Keyboard - CTRL ALT SHFT upon clicking PSD iconSaid 'Yes' to allow changes to systemStill received same two messagesRemoved the Adobe Photoshop CS6 Prefs.psp Restarted Photoshop, still received same two messages.  Tried resetting, CTL ALT SHFT, again still same two messages.
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Read Adobe thread to 'rename' the Actions Palette.psp, but keep it in the folder:
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I renamed it 'renamed' and left the Adobe Photoshop CS6 Prefs.psp in the folder as well.Did not receive the 'load actions' error, butStill received the 'Preference file was invalid' message.Tried CTRL ALT SHFT to reset,Still received the 'Preference file was invalid' message.Left the Actions as 'renamed', but removed the Adobe Photoshop CS6 Prefs.psp file as well.Still received the 'Preference file was invalid' message.Tried CTRL ALT SHFT to reset,Still received the 'Preference file was invalid' message.Â
I recently upgraded from CS5 to CS6. The CS5 license was on a PC, the CS6 license is on my new Mac.
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I have access to my old PC still, but I have not been able to figure out how to transfer my Actions or my Camera Raw presets (.XMP files) to the Mac. I need access to these Actions asap and am not able to recreate them.
I was on CS6 and my layouts got all messed up so i resetted the workspace, only to find my actions pallette gone.
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When I create a new action, apply it and close it, at a latter date I cannot find that action in the Action Panel.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI wanted to add effects to text. The "help" feature said that the easiest way is to use the text effects in the Action palette.
The instructions were very sketchy. I tried, and didn't see any effect, so I closed that particular file and went on to something else.
Well, I guess I did SOMETHING, because now those effects seem to be permanently stuck ON. I've tried everything that I can think of. I even deleted all effects from the Actions palette (apparently you can restore the defaults later.) No effect!
The effects that are haunting me are "rippling water" and a shadow. Also, if I click anywhere in a .gif with the text tool, instead of creating a new text layer, it "highlights" the entire image.
What can I do?
is it possible to create an action in the action palette which chooses a specific color I want , instead of doing it manually with the magic wand? For example something like "Set selection all blacks"?
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Clear the selected object
Fit the Artboard to the Selected Object
Save for Web and Devices
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I can get it to clear and save but I'll be darned if I can get the Fit the Artboard to the Selected Object to register in the recording of the action. No matter what shortcuts I use, menues I use it just won't record it. Is this just a thing Illustrator won't do or any I just missing something?
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I do those 3 things listed above ALL the time and it would be nice it I could make those 3 things into 1 action, then add that action to a hot key on my tablet.
Is it possible to trigger actions from the actions panel using javascript? I see that you can do this with AppleScript but I've written everyting so far in javascript and don't know AppleScript, though could learn it if I need to.
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I'm writing a script that creates a lot of complex graphic files and have all the prototypes done except for wanting to change the color of a few of the points in a mesh object. Apparently this can't be done in javascript, so I was hoping to mid point in the script, trigger an action from the panel to edit the mesh, then let the script carry on its way.
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Is this possible?
I'm using CS2 on a Mac and I'm in the actions palette trying to run various actions on things like text or images.
It seems like I'm not doing something right.
At least half of the actions will not complete, whether they are actions downloaded from a website or not. The actions are both Mac and PC compatible but I think they are supposed to be by their very nature..
Anyway, I never modified them.
I get a message, sometimes two or three in just one play of an action, saying "The command '_____' ("make", for example) is "not available."
As a result of this problem, I have countless actions that do not complete! If I let it play to the end, and they DO complete without stopping, the intended result of the action does not execute because of the step(s) that got left out.
Is there any way to make the "unavailable" steps available?:O
I downloaded a couple of actions from the web to my actions palette and they worked fine, but then I got greedy and downloaded a few more and that’s when things went south. Now none of the actions work - by not working I mean when I mouse over the Play Selection icon at the bottom of the action palette I get that little circle with a line through it. This happens with the PS default actions as well (I also get the circle on the Stop Playing/Recording and Begin Recording icons).
Somewhere in the following is probably what messed things up.
I downloaded actions to my computer in zip files. Copied them over to the actions folder (or somewhere) and unzipped them. I went back to the actions palette and hit “load actions” and loaded them. On the second set of actions that I downloaded I remember thinking “why am I copying and pasting these files - I bet I should cut and paste them, so I did and that may have been the start of the great crumble of 2004. PhotoShop help says: (under Saving and loading actions) “Actions are automatically saved the the Actions Palette folder in PS7.0 Settings folder. If this file is lost or removed, the actions you created are lost”.
I have searched for the settings folder and couldn’t find it, but the actions still show up on the actions palette - they just don’t run.
I’m a little fuzzy on the details on the above steps. In fact, I probably did something different on each download.
one more thing, I reloaded PhotoShop, but still nothing.
My computer crashed and I removed all apps and reinstalled so now none of my actions appear. However I do have a backup file of all of them and want to reinstall but before when I was using cs6 ( Im assuming same thing as CC as it was all on the subscription plan ) I would click actions then the right arrows and it would bring me a big screen of all the actions ( even the ones that were just preloaded in ps ) and it was a big box with all the actions and some options to record etc...Now that box isn't there and it's just a single column drop down menu.
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Is there anyway to speed up the loading time. Like some code that will tell it load specific number of frames first and then load the rest in the background?
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I have compressed the images that are being used but cannot compress further as they may lose the quality.I've got the preloader working and now it seems to be showing up while the site is loading. Is there any way to speed up the loading time.
I like to put my actions somewhere special on my hardrive, not in apps folder.
Now, in past, when I saved actions CS2 would "remember" where this folder was, making real easy to save.
Lately, it keep defaulting to save as in the app folder-- even though I did navigate to my special area on last save as.
Is it possible to add the Properties Palette to a custom made palette set in .NET? And how to do this?
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I wan´t to delete a palette from Autocad Tool Palette. How can I do?
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View 1 Replies View Relatedi am trying to build an action where the end product is a channel listing that has all the channel (R-G-B-L-C-Y-M-K (forget LAB a-b)). this will allow me to look at all the channels for contrast and subsequent extraction. i'm actually able to do this as i RECORD the action. but when i RUN the action, nothing happens.
in recording the action, i create a DUPLICATE IMAGE, then convert the new image to LAB. i then drag the "L" channel to the original image. it goes into the original image as an alpha channel which i rename to "Lightness." i then convert the duplicate image to CMYK and then one-by-one DRAG the individual channels to the original image. at the end of this process, i have all eight channels visible in the channels palette. this is what i want.
but then, when i RUN the action on a new image, the action fails to RECORD the "drag step and drop" step. the "L," "C," etc. channels are not dragged during the running of the action.
why does the "drag" step not record in the action
needs to overlay a grid over a photo and then save it as another file. In CS5.5 or earlier, no problem, but in CS6 it is not working for either of us.Â
The batch action (run from either Photoshop or Bridge) stops and prompts at the Save command every time no matter what format we save it in (psd, png, jpg, save for web, etc.).
I have been through the Web and the Adobe Forums and cannot find a work around for this. He cannot just hit enter everytime the popup window comes up because he has over 2700 photos to put this grid on.
I've only ever used gimp sparingly and for simple stuff. I now need to set the palette of a 8-bit png to a specified palette, but I can't find any in gimp or online about how to load a palette. I need the palette to contain colors that may not be in the image if thats possible as these images are sprites of under 40 colors, but I need a full 256 color palette. Also is there any simple way to convert a string of numbers into a gimp palette? If not Ill probably just look at how they are saved and just write a simple script, but I thought i would ask.
View 5 Replies View Relatedtry to load Photshop 7, it goes through all the preliminaries and then the screen goes blank. thinking it was a program fault, I have reinstalled but all to no avail. What other fault could it be? I know it's getting on, as is the desktop,
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have joined Photoshop CC and it worked for a couple of hours. Now when I load it, when its loaded, it freezes and nothing works.
I have Windows 7 and plenty of computing power and disc space. I have tried reloading it 3 times plus signing off and on to my account.
cc locks up on loading
View 7 Replies View RelatedAllI am getting is a spinning circle in Creative Cloud. Photoshop CC is not loading.Â
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