When an PS action doesn’t work

Posted on 07. Dec, 2008 by Oneter in Photoshop

Another frequent question is what to do when action doesn’t work. Here are a few things to check.

First, make certain you haven’t changed the name of the Background layer which should be the bottom layer on the stack. Some actions requires this naming convention, and if you’ve changed the name to, for instance, Layer 0, the action fails.

Second, make certain that you were on the background layer when you initiated the action. If you had a curves layer selected, the action will try to affect that, and it won’t work as expected.

Third, see if your image is in 16-bit mode. If so, the action make by making calls to filters that are unavailable in this mode. Take these steps:

-Image|Duplicate (This duplicates your image)
-Image|Mode|8-bit … (This changes your new duplicate image to 8-bit)

Now try to run the action again.

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