Copying Steps within Actions
You can copy specific steps from one action to another in Photoshop. By copying a step that performs a specific adjustment, you can create complex Actions that greatly reduce editing time and yet simplify your workflow, ensuring consistency across different projects. Specific adjustments include sharpening, resizing, or saving to a specific file type (say JPEG, size 10) and colour space, or naming a file and saving it to your desktop, but they’re not restricted to that, of course. I have set up actions for different things, such as borders and frames, and by adding additional steps this way, you can fine-tune them endlessly.How to Copy Action StepsOpen the Actions Panel:
Go to Window > Actions or press Alt + F9 (Windows) / Option + F9 (Mac)
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