Question on Editing Actions

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Jim
Jan 13, 2005
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Hello,

I am using Pshop CS and there is a multistep action that I would like to edit. Specifically it is a step that creates a gradient. I would like to change the X,Y coordinates that were used when the gradient step of the action was originally created. I have found the section of the action associated with the application of the gradient but can not figure out where the positional information is stored and how it is encoded. I have looked in the manual, in the online help and on Google but can not find a solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Please respond to the list as the email address is a fake to foil spammers.

Best Regards, Jim Plaxco
National Space Society http://www.nss.org
Astrodigital http://www.astrodigital.org
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John Doe
Jan 13, 2005
Try double-clicking that step in the action palette. On many things this will bring up a dialog box for editing. Will that happen for gradients since the gradient tool doesn’t have a dialog box I don’t know. You may need to select that step, click record and re-record that step and then delete the old one making sure the new one is in the old ones position. Editing actions in Photoshop isn’t that great. Another fine example of Adobe adding a half completed feature and then never finishing it.

John

"Jim" wrote in message
Hello,

I am using Pshop CS and there is a multistep action that I would like to edit. Specifically it is a step that creates a gradient. I would like to change the X,Y coordinates that were used when the gradient step of the action was originally created. I have found the section of the action associated with the application of the gradient but can not figure out where the positional information is stored and how it is encoded. I have looked in the manual, in the online help and on Google but can not find a solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Please respond to the list as the email address is a fake to foil spammers.

Best Regards, Jim Plaxco
National Space Society http://www.nss.org
Astrodigital http://www.astrodigital.org
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Jim
Jan 14, 2005
Hello John,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:15:42 GMT, "John Doe"
wrote:

Try double-clicking that step in the action palette. On many things this will bring up a dialog box for editing. Will that happen for gradients since the gradient tool doesn’t have a dialog box I don’t know.

I had tried the double click method before posting this. It apparently works only for those events that use a dailog box for input vs a mouse drag.

You may need to
select that step, click record and re-record that step and then delete the old one making sure the new one is in the old ones position. Editing actions in Photoshop isn’t that great. Another fine example of Adobe adding a half completed feature and then never finishing it.

What I was doing was trying to go into the 8bf file with a hex editor and just change the coordiates in question directly. I have not tried re-recording just the gradient step. I would prefer to just be able to directly edit the coordinates within the action file itself.

I searched Google thinking that perhaps someone had produced an action editor but I had no luck finding any such thing.

Has anyone reading this ever tried to directly edit an action file?

Thanks, Jim

John

"Jim" wrote in message
Hello,

I am using Pshop CS and there is a multistep action that I would like to edit. Specifically it is a step that creates a gradient. I would like to change the X,Y coordinates that were used when the gradient step of the action was originally created. I have found the section of the action associated with the application of the gradient but can not figure out where the positional information is stored and how it is encoded. I have looked in the manual, in the online help and on Google but can not find a solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Please respond to the list as the email address is a fake to foil spammers.

Best Regards, Jim Plaxco
National Space Society http://www.nss.org
Astrodigital http://www.astrodigital.org

Best Regards, Jim Plaxco
National Space Society http://www.nss.org
Astrodigital http://www.astrodigital.org

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