Grab a file, any file, and press F8 (or whatever function key you assigned). (Does it sound like I learned this the hard way?) If you do not stop recording, you could end up with a very long action that does all manner of things you did not count on. This is important enough that I have made it its own step. Push the square in the Actions palette (turns blue when you hover over it) when you are done with the steps for the action. Choose pixels (or whatever you had before). This time, choose Horizontal and type in 50%. In the dialog box, choose Vertical and type in 50% for Position.Choose percent in the dropdown for Rulers.Then when you are ready to finish the action, you will reset your preferences so that they are back to pixels (or cm or whatever unit you were using). Then you will tell it "halfway," and it will understand.
To tell Photoshop you want it "halfway," you need to first change your units to percentage in the preferences. Some things record better than others, and for some operations you have to give directions in a general way.įor example, if you tell Photoshop to drag a guideline to the 250 pixel column on your 500 pixel-wide image, it will always drag the guideline to the 250 pixel column, and won't know that you meant "halfway!" This is like pressing the record button on a tape recorder, except that this "recorder" will only pick up things that you do in Photoshop. Click the round Record Action button at the bottom of the Actions palette.I use mine often, and I actually ended up assigning it to F2. Assigning the action a function key is very cool, if this is an action which you will use often.Give your new action a descriptive name.Once you are in the right folder, click the New Action icon, as I'm doing to the right.If you need to make a new folder for it, click the folder icon at the bottom of the palette.
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