Loading Action Sets
When Photoshop is installed, only one default action set is loaded into the Actions palette. (It’s listed as Default Actions.atn at the top of the Actions palette.) Seven more libraries of action sets ship with Photoshop.These action sets include actions that create frames, special image and text effects, and textures. To load an action set into the Actions palette, open the Actions palette menu, and then choose the action set from the bottom of the menu, as shown in Figure 8-7.

Figure 8-7: Select an action set from the bottom of the Actions palette menu.
Figure 8-8 shows some of the great actions that you can load into the actions palette.

Figure 8-8: Check out the great actions that ship with Photoshop.
Many Photoshop artists have come up with actions of their own that are available for download from the Web. For some great resources, check out Adobe Studio Exchange at share.studio.adobe.com , Team Photoshop at www.teamphotoshop.com , and Action Addiction at www.actionaddiction.com . To find other sites offering actions, just type Photoshop actions into your favorite Web search engine.