Action not recording as I told it to

I am recording an action. I have selected an area of the image. The action I recorded, does this:

Transforms the selection to 155 x 155 pixels
copies it
opens a new file
changes the image size of the new file
pastes the image into the new file

Problem is, even though when recording the action I specifically tell it to transform the selection to 155 x 155 pixels, the resulting action has changed that to a percentage and stored it that way. I need it to be a value in pixels and not a percentage as my original file will always be changing.

Check your preferences - the actions record in your default units (so you can specify the behavior as exact or relative).

That's the rub. My preferences are set to pixels.

Naw Chris, he's right. Looks like a bug oversight. There's no way I can figure to get absolute pixel transformation either with Edit|Transoform or Select|Transform Selection in an action. It always records percent. It was that way in PS7 too.

If the resolution changes, the post transformation maintains a percentage of the original; so it's really using percent in the transformation, not just recording the value.

The Action records:

Transform Current Layer
* Center: center
* Translate: 0 pixels, 0 pixels
* Width: 26.8%
* Height: 33.1%

The last two values vary depending on the starting image size, of course, but they're always percent.

Peace,
Tony

OK, report it as a bug, and we'll work on it.

Thanks Chris. Done.