Question about "Actions" in PS CS4

[Carol]

I'm trying to learn actions in CS4. Will someone please tell me what it means when the "triangle" is opened, and the action skips a few, and reads "color balance" is not available. This is only a sample, many others say "not available". Did I do something wrong?

[Songman45]

Are there already multiple layers open? Try flattning the image or merging the layers before performing the action. Sounds like a task is being called for that cannot be done on a particular layer.

Steve

[verdesardog]

The best way to figure out what needs to be done is to step through the action one step at a time, some actions even have instructions written into them.

[felix.reichardt]

some actions and filters require that your image is in 8 bit mode and not in 16 bit.

[Carol]

Originally Posted by felix.reichardt

some actions and filters require that your image is in 8 bit mode and not in 16 bit.

Thanks for replying. You hit it right on the head. I use 16 bit for most of my photos.

[Carol]

Originally Posted by verdesardog

The best way to figure out what needs to be done is to step through the action one step at a time, some actions even have instructions written into them.

Thanks for the advice I'm now going step by step, but my images were 16 bit. I think that was the problem.