The watch blurred. The curves adjusted. The gloss appeared.
Tonight, the magic was broken.
The fix was stupidly simple.
Select. Fine. Color Range. Fine. Curves… Error. photoshop actions not working
She saved the action. Took a breath. Clicked
She froze. Curves. Why would Curves fail?
Her stomach dropped. She realized the truth. The action wasn't broken. She had broken it six months ago. The watch blurred
She opened the Action. Clicked the offending step—the “Select Layer” command. In the dropdown, she changed the specific name “Layer 0” to the wildcard:
She clicked on her lovingly crafted action, “Pro_Gloss_V3.”
It should work. It had worked yesterday on the test images. Tonight, the magic was broken
The cursor blinked, smug and indifferent. Panic began its slow crawl up her spine. She opened the Action panel, peering into the code of her own creation: Make Layer > Select Color Range > Curves > Gaussian Blur.
She looked at the Layers panel. The watch was on a locked Background layer. Her action was programmed to create an adjustment layer above the active layer. But the action was also trying to apply a mask based on a selection that… no longer existed the moment the adjustment layer appeared.
She tried again. New error: “Could not complete because of a program error.”
“You are currently available,” she whispered to the machine.