Action advice – background colour.

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Rob
Mar 21, 2007
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What I am doing is making thumbnails with drop shadow, from the web photos, for a website. This has a grey background, I just place the thumbs on a page, and make them navigate. So I need the thumb background the same as what’s on the page.

In the action is a resize, increase canvas size, delete background layer, add new layer > (plus more)

fill new layer > using foreground colour,

Using foreground layer is the problem.

I want set the background colour in the action. The action works except for setting the colour from within the action.

How do I add that to the action?

thanks
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edjh
Mar 21, 2007
Rob wrote:
What I am doing is making thumbnails with drop shadow, from the web photos, for a website. This has a grey background, I just place the thumbs on a page, and make them navigate. So I need the thumb background the same as what’s on the page.

In the action is a resize, increase canvas size, delete background layer, add new layer > (plus more)

fill new layer > using foreground colour,

Using foreground layer is the problem.

I want set the background colour in the action. The action works except for setting the colour from within the action.

How do I add that to the action?

thanks

You could set it as foreground then switch with background by hitting X.

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Rob
Mar 21, 2007
edjh wrote:
Rob wrote:

What I am doing is making thumbnails with drop shadow, from the web photos, for a website. This has a grey background, I just place the thumbs on a page, and make them navigate. So I need the thumb background the same as what’s on the page.

In the action is a resize, increase canvas size, delete background layer, add new layer > (plus more)

fill new layer > using foreground colour,

Using foreground layer is the problem.

I want set the background colour in the action. The action works except for setting the colour from within the action.

How do I add that to the action?

thanks

You could set it as foreground then switch with background by hitting X.
Thanks I think I found the solution.

by using – New Fill Layer > solid colour etc – in the action then the colour is locked into the action script.

Rm

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