: Disable each step from being show on screen when using user-defined actions I have created a few actions to add border and guide marks on images. Depending on the border required, a different

@Ogunnowo857

Whenever I run batches in Photoshop, I reduce the program's window to it's minimum size, thus effectively 'hiding' the images being processed, which speeds up batch processing considerably. That's been my experience, anyway. And that experience has been on Windows machines, not Macs, FWIW.

There was a time when I could simply minimize the window to the task bar, but some time ago, Photoshop started popping back up to it's maximum window size when opening the next image to batch process. So I started manually reducing the window borders to the minimum size allowed. Hope this helps!

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@Jamie315

It sounds to me like you have Step by step selected in the action playback options and maybe Allow tool recording, or perhaps both.

You need to go to the Actions panel and:


Click the menu icon at the top right corner
Uncheck Allow Tool Recording
Go to playback options... ( jump to the second image below this one ↓ )
Select Accelerated, if it's not selected.


With these settings the actions run as fast as they possibly can.

I forgot to mention that if you have recorded an action that uses full step by step animation recorded by Allow tool recording, just disabling this option is not enough. You'd need to remake that part of the action with it disabled.

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