Okay, I was looking through my files and discovered that Photoshop has these automated action things called droplets. Cool. There's one called old picture I wanted to try. Looked in the help files and it said I was supposed to drag something or other onto the droplet icon, which appears to be a down pointing arrow with the adobe eye in it. Fair enough. Only one problem. Where the hell is the droplet icon? Does anyone know? Cause I sure can't find it anywhere.

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yes I know where the files are, where the hell is the icon once you have the program open? The help files say "A droplet is a small application that applies an action to one or more images that you drag onto the droplet icon" It shows the droplet icon. But I can't find that icon anywhere in the program.

Grab the file in the Droplets folder and drag it onto your desktop (or somewhere where you can see it at the same time as the image you want to process). A shorcut will appear on your desktop. Grab your image and drag it onto the droplet shorcut. Drop it. Photoshop will open if it is not already. After processing, your image won't stay open so you'll have to open it yourself to see the results.

huh, okay. What a strange way to do things though. Thnks

You can create a droplet of any set of actions. Saving the droplet to the desktop is a time saver if you plan to use those actions on many files in one folder or plan to use these same specs often. A droplet is a customized batch process application. Drag and drop file or folder of files on the droplet will open program and batch process the actions. In ImageReady you right click on the action in the actions palette and first select Batch Options to set where you want the resulting files to go then Create Droplet. In Photoshop click on action in actions palette then click on File - Automate - Create Droplet. It's great for repetitive work but can also be used on one image.