Gather round! Because today Treva will teach you how to make Actions in Photoshop. What are Actions, you ask? Photoshop's help file defines them as:

"An action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files—menu commands, palette options, tool actions, and so on. For example, you can create an action that changes the size of an image, applies a filter to the image for a particular effect, and then saves the file in the desired format."

Simply put, they let you record what you are doing, and then you can play back those actions with one click. This is very, very useful for making icons if you run on the IJ crowd that has to make batches of 100. No, Photoshop cannot full color your icons for you, but if you are just doing something simple like applying a color, resizing the icon, and saving it for you. You'd be surprised how much time this can save when you add it up over lots of icons.

As a warning, THIS PROCESS CAN BE VERY MEMORY INTENSIVE, DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU ARE DOING. What I'm showing today shouldn't blow up any computers though.

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