Graphics Programs Reference
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Conditional Actions (At Last!)
Actions are basically tape recordings that live inside of Photoshop and you can use them
to automate boring, repetitive tasks. Actions have been in Photoshop for many years now
and ever since they were added, users have been asking for the ability to have conditional
actions (meaning, a step in the recording where you can insert a condition, like “if this par-
ticular thing exists, then do this instead”). For example, if you wanted to have one action
that properly resizes both your wide and your tall images for your online portfolio, you'd
want your action to be “conditional” (if it's wide, run this action; if it's tall, run this one
instead).
Step One:
