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Building Your First Photoshop Action: Step by Step

Reading about actions is one thing. Building one is how it actually clicks. Let’s create a practical action together: a web export action that resizes an image, sharpens it, and saves it as an optimized JPEG. You’ll use this one constantly. Before You Start Open any photo in Photoshop. It doesn’t matter which — we just need an image to record the steps on. Make sure the Actions panel is visible (Window > Actions).