Maybe it is just me but I was pretty excited to discover actions n my Photoshop course last month. Until now I hadn't realised such a feature existed.
Actions allow you to record a number of operations in Photoshop and then apply them to another picture or a number of images in a folder. They are application scripts that record a sequence of events like converting an image to monochrome. This sequence can then be replayed on other images.
These are really useful if you have a particular processing routine that you run in Photoshop. If you record this routine then you don't bother having to do it on every single image you process. I think actions would be beneficial to me for formatting images for output on the web. I can make the adjustments to one image while recording them and then play them over the entire folder I want to put online.
If there is a process in the sequence that you don't want to run you can stop that from being applied to other images by turning that action off.
I still feel that in my workflow I work better at the processing stage in Lightroom. I also feel like I want to consider each image individually and therefore running actions like monochrome conversions would not be suitable for me at the moment.
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