This is a demo version* of the chapter Automate It that will help you to save your time and effort. Sometimes Photoshop jobs can be very tiresome; especially, when you repeat the same operations time after time. Fortunately, any repetitive activity can be automated. Did you know that most of your routine tasks in Photoshop and ImageReady can be accomplished with a single click? And not only a single image, but an entire folder of images can be processed in virtually no time. This chapter will tell you how to save your time and effort by reducing the routine work to a single click.

*In the fresh (CS3) version of "ASAP" courseware, actions are covered in the "Skills" chapter.

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