I am extremely frustrated with action writing in CS6. I cannot paste a selected object in an action! It would work fine in CS5. I open my logo doc, select all, copy and close. Go to my base doc and paste-- NOT AVAILABLE>

So I tried select all first before pasting. When I play the action, it says SELECTION NOT AVAILABLE, but when I continue, it does actually paste and finish the action! Why wont it let me select all OR paste in an action now?

I am an advanced action writer and an adobe influencer and presenter, so I know what im doing, but this has me totally stumped. Thanks for your response! suzette@suzetteallen.com

Why would you open a file, select, copy (edit: forgot the closing step) and paste instead of simply placing the file?

Well, I still think your Action probably includes unnecessary steps.

Some warning, though:

Placed images honor resolution – so images of the same pixel dimensions may appear differently sized if they have different resolutions and the Prefrences’ »Resize Image During Place«-setting.

Suzette

If you continue to create actions for images files some day you may become frustrated again when to try to create avtions the will work on any size image.  Action can not use logic like Photoshop Scripts can.  You need to become a little creative to handle document thac can vary greatly in number of pinels. you may want to look at my crafting actions package if contains a sample action the can put a logo on any size image.

Crafting Actions Package Contains

• Action Actions Palette Tips.txt
• Action Creation Guidelines.txt
• Action Dealing with Image Size.txt
• Action Enhanced via Scripted Photoshop Functions.txt
• CraftedActions.atn Sample Action set includes an example Watermarking action
• Sample Actions.txt Photoshop CraftedActions set saved as a text file.
• 12 Scripts for actions

Example

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