5 Replies Latest reply: Jun 1, 2010 6:56 AM by Lance Warley RSS

    Problem With An Action - Help, Please

    Lance Warley Community Member

      I wrote an action in CS4 that worked correctly for at least a year. Then it stopped working correctly for no apparent reason, and now I can’t get it to work in CS5 either.

      The action does the following:
      1-Creates a black mask on a layer (Layer-Hide All)

      2-Sets fg color to white 255 255 255
      3-Loads a saved selection named “1” (I save the selection prior to starting this action. I always name it “1” in every photo, and it’s always the first saved selection in every photo).
      4-Contracts the selection 1 px
      5-Feathers the selection 1 px
      6-Fills the selection with white (Paint Bucket)
      7-Deselects the selection.

      The action works correctly when I record it. And it intermittently works correctly on the same photo. Other times, it completes on the same photo with just a black mask.

      When I run it on other photos, it also completes with just a black mask, rather than a black mask with a white selection.

      As part of the debugging, I created an action to do steps 1-5, and it worked correctly. So the problem seems to be with the Fill step. I even tried changing the fg color from white to anything else, and then changed it back to white, to make sure it was white. That didn’t help.

      Any help, please?