Saving and loading photoshop actions

Like other photoshop preset actions are automatically saved every-time you quit photoshop. If photoshop crash and not quit properly your actions that you just created will be lost (will be reset to last saved preference).

You may want to save your action to use in other machine or load downloaded action. You can save your actions to a separate actions file. And you can also load a variety of action sets that are shipped with Photoshop.

To save a set of actions:

1. Select a set.
2. Choose Save Actions from the Actions palette menu.
   
3. Type a name for the set, choose a location, and click Save.

You can save the set anywhere. However, if you place the file in the Presets/Photoshop Actions folder inside the Photoshop program folder, the set will appear at the bottom of the Actions palette menu after you restart the application.

TIP: Press Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Command+Option (Mac OS) when you choose the Save Actions command to save the actions in a text file. You can use this file to review or print the contents of an action. However, you can’t reload the text file back into Photoshop.

To load a set of actions:

Do one of the following:

• In action Palette Choose Load Actions from the Actions palette menu.
• Locate and select the action set file, and then click Load. (In Windows, Photoshop action set files have the extension .atn.)

Or you can select an action set from the bottom of the Actions palette menu. If your action is save in action presets folder in your photoshop installed directory. You can simply copy your action file to action preset folder. The action preset folder are named as photoshop action (for example ” /Photshop CS/Presets/Photoshop action”).

Note:Photoshop will read presets folder only when it start, if you update your presets folder while photoshop open you may have to restart photoshop to see your update.

You can find tons of free useful action at atncentral.com that is devoted to the exchange of Photoshop actions among users by Photoshop user Jim Lewis. And also check it out at our action directory here.

To restore actions to the default set:

1. Choose Reset Actions from the Actions palette menu.
2. Click OK to replace the current actions in the Actions palette with the default set, or click Append to add the set of default actions to the current actions in the Actions palette.

Related Article:

• Using Photoshop Action
• Creating a droplet from an action
• Using the Photoshop Batch command

Photoshop Action:

• Create Text Water-Mark Action.
• Convert to JPG action.
• RAW to PSD Action.
• Free Photoshop Action Directory

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