photoshop action question?

Question

how do you get an action to repeat without recording the same thing over and over again?

Answer 1

Automate a task by recording commands and operations in the Actions palette.

If you have to perform the same task on multiple images, you can save time by recording the steps of the task in an action, and then playing the action on each image. An action can include menu commands and most operations you perform with tools from the toolbox. You can even record the playing of other actions. You store the actions in sets within the Actions palette. The Actions palette lists all actions you record, as well as several predefined actions. Before you create an action, break your workflow down into simple steps that can be repeated on other like images.
1. Open an image file.
2. Click the Actions tab to bring the Actions palette to the front or, if the palette isn't open, choose Window > Actions.
3. To create a set that you'll add actions to, click the Create New Set button at the bottom of the Actions palette. Name the set, and click OK.
4. Click the New Actions button New button.
5. Type a name that describes the action in the Name text box. Choose the set that you want to add the action to from the Set pop-up menu, and then click Record.
6. Choose the commands and perform the operations that you want included in the action.

Note: Photoshop can't automate paint strokes, zoom settings, scrolling, and window selections.
7. When you have performed all the steps you want to record, click the Stop button Stop button at the bottom of the Actions palette.
8. To test the action, open another file, select the action in the Actions palette, and click the Play button Play button .
Keep in mind the following guidelines when recording actions:
* You can record most--but not all--commands in an action.
* You can record operations that you perform with the Marquee, Move, Polygon, Lasso, Magic Wand, Crop, Slice, Magic Eraser, Gradient, Paint Bucket, Type, Shape, Notes, Eyedropper, and Color Sampler tools--as well as those that you perform in the History, Swatches, Color, Paths, Channels, Layers, Styles, and Actions palettes.
* Results depend on file and program setting variables, such as the active layer or the foreground color. For example, a 3-pixel Gaussian blur won't create the same effect on a 72-ppi file as on a 144-ppi file. Nor will Color Balance work on a grayscale file.
* When recording actions that include dialog boxes and palettes, the settings recorded will be the ones that are presently in the dialog box and palette at the time of the recording. If you change a setting in a dialog box or palette while recording an action, the resulting value will be the one recorded.

Note: Most dialog boxes retain the values of their previous settings; when they next appear they may already have values. Be sure to check carefully to see if the values are the ones you want to record.
* Modal operations and tools--as well as tools that record position--use the units currently specified for the ruler. A modal operation or tool is one that requires you to press Enter or Return to apply its effect, such as the transformation and crop commands. Tools that record position include the Marquee, Slice, Gradient, Magic Wand, Lasso, Shape, Path, Eyedropper, and Notes tools.

Tip iconIn Photoshop, when recording an action that will be played on files of different sizes, set the ruler units to percent. As a result, the action will always play back in the same relative position in the image.
* You can record the Play command listed on the Actions palette menu to cause one action to play another.
* In ImageReady, you can drag a command from the History palette to the action in the Actions palette in which you want the command recorded. Commands in italics are not recordable in an action. You cannot drag italicized commands from the History palette to the Actions palette.
* Photoshop and ImageReady cannot share actions.

Answer 2

I don't thin you can repeat... You will have to press play... again and again...

Maybe i am right... or maybe...nOt