Eightlake,
It's really quite easy. Open Photoshop...open any pic you
want...now click on the action so that it opens....but don't run
it. Now go pick the effect that you want to change the default
on....say Palette Knife...it is set for 10,3,0...set it to whatever
you want your new default to be..and press ok. For example
purposes...set it to 1,1,0...press ok. Now go over to the edit
menu and choose undo palette knife....so that it won't affect your
picture. Now run the action and see what the default is when the
palette knife comes up.....it should be the 1,1,0.
Now if you want to make this default permanent...click the action
closed...highlight the main action....Bud's Actions....now click
the arrow in the upper right...scroll down to save actions, and
save the action in the photoshop actions folder in
photoshop.....the same place that you installed it to in the first
place. You can at this time rename it to anything you want so that
both copies are available. You can, of course, put your name on it
if you like if it makes it easier to find for you.
Also, the little stop messages that pop up can be eliminated. They
were put there for your convenience so that you would know what is
happening. While you have the action open and you are modifying
it.....just click the little arrow to the left, when there is no
arrow, that step doesn't run. Once you've ran the program a few
times you might not need the information....again I put them there
as a help. You people that have the latest action will notice when
looking at the paint action that I have unclicked the little arrow
next to image size....it used to change the image size....I stopped
that just by unclicking the arrow. Also,(this is really getting
geeky of me) next to the arrow box is another little box. With
that box highlighted it tells the program to stop and let you
adjust the settings...if you unhighlight that box the program will
just run and do it's own, defaulted thang.
And as we always say save and save often.
I hope this helps, any other questions and I'll give them my best
shot.
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bud guinn
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