Adobe Photoshop CS2 On Demand [Electronic resources]

Adding a Stop to an Action

There are times when you want to make changes, based on a specific image. For example, you create an action to balance the contrast in an image, and one of the commands you use is the Levels adjustment. Although all of the other commands do not need modification, the Levels adjustment is specific to each individual image. What you want is the action to perform (automatically) all of the action steps, except Levels. For the Levels adjustment, you want the action to stop, and let you make changes, and then after you click the OK button, to move on and complete the rest of the steps.

Add a Stop to an Action

Open a document, and then select the

Actions palette.

Click the

expand triangle of the action you want to modify.

Click the command directly above where you want to place the action.

Click the

Actions Options button, and then click

Insert Stop .

Enter a text message associated with the purpose of the stop action.

Select the

Allow Continue check box to add a Continue button to the stop alert box.

Click

OK .

Click the

Play button on the Actions palette to run the action.

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