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Creating the action
In order to create our action, we're simply going to do everything we did in the previous installment in this tutorial series, which you can read by clicking here. The difference is that while we're doing it, we're going to have our Actions palette open so that each step can be recorded for later using in a batch processing operation.
If you don't want to know how to create your own actions for merging documents, be sure to skip forward to the last section in this article ("Bonus Download") to download a set of seven complete preset actions.
The exact way you'll create you action depends on the sort of document merging you want to perform. The method we discuss here and the options for each step assume you want to maintain the layer structure of all of the documents you merge. And it assumes you want to merge the documents into a single new image file.
Begin by creating a new document at the final desired dimensions for your project. Make sure it's called "Untiltled 1" or some other name that you will use any time you run this batch process. For this procedure, the name must be consistent, or the batch won't work properly. (The names of the individual documents that will be merged don't matter.)
Then open up a sample document that contains multiple layers. It doesn't really matter which document. We're just using it for the creation of our action.
Now it's time to create the action itself.
Open up you Actions palette. Create a new set by clicking the folder icon at the bottom of the Actions palette. I'll name my set "Nagel Series 3 Actions (Merging)," since that's the name of the set of actions I'm providing for download later on.
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