Photoshop Action The Command Select Is Not Available
Florene Pothoven
1.) Make sure your bottom layer is named Background and it is locked.
2.) Make a fresh layer and name it, brush use all lower case letters.
3.) This is the step that got it all to work. Load the brushes the ABR file that goes with that action.
4.) Apply your brush and paint over the parts of the image you want the action applied to on the brush layer.
5.) Choose the layer you named brush and play the action. Easy!
All works Great again!
I have the same problem and have followed all of the above still getting message Select not currently available it happens right after the Gaussian blur but wants me to say ok to the the guaussian blur step then right after I say ok it says select not currently available
I purchased the Cosmic photoshop effect action
I've installed a Greater Than Gatsby Action but cant run it because I get 'The command SELECT is not currently available. I tried running a default Action and get 'The command FEATHER is not currently available.'
I had this exact same issue with an action I was using. Look down the action list at the first "Select" command. Make sure that your layer is named the same as what is in that command. After that it should work.
For some strange reason, it didn't like using an image that I had previously ran the action on. Luckily I had the original image. Or maybe saving it as a different file? I opened the original the saved a copy, ran the script, and it ran just fine. I don't know how or why but it worked.
For anyone else... I had the layer named correctly "Brush" and got the "command select is not available" i noticed by looking at the action wording it was looking for "brush"... so it is case sensitive... then it took off.
It is better to select layers relatively in an action rather than by name. Layer names need not be unique a Photoshop document can have many layers named Brush or brush which layer would your action select if there were more then one layer with a matching name. Layer name can also be changed a document may have had a layer named brush which was later renamed to something else like soft brush.
For anyone else... I had the layer named correctly "Brush" and got the "command select is not available" i noticed by looking at the action wording it was looking for "brush"... so it is case sensitive... then it took off.
To do this, stop recording, then select a layer, then start recording again, double click the layer name and rename it. This way when you select the layer later in your action, by name, it will always exist. And the action will work on any "Current Layer" that is selected.
2. Create a duplicate layer to manipulate - on layered psds.
If you're creating an action to work on any PSD documents that may have layers, try recording this little sequence before a desired operation:
You can use any of the save commands in an action, and navigate to where you want to save the file, even create a new folder to put the files in, but don't touch the name field or every time you run the action it will save with the same name.
Make sure also that you didn't uncheck the box "add "copy" to Copied Layers and Groups" cuz if you did, most actions are programmed to select the copied layer by it's name "layer 1 copy" this option is in the layers panel options
Also NB - if the layer is named "background" which it seems PS does by default, the action will not run. It calles for the layer to be named "Background" with a capital "B". Doing so will fix the problem.
I have yet to get any actions to work it just keeps telling me that command is not available. won't do anything on its own you have to click each piece in the action I sit here clicking and clicking it's never-ending I thought the purpose of the actions is so it does all the actions itself ? after you hit play I have to ask it to perform each step I get tired and just quit there is something wrong that nobody can answer
I had the same problem, "The command SELECT is not currently available" and after reading the solution here from aeolate, I realized that my brush layer was named "Brush" once I renamed it "brush" without the cap B it ran fine. Crazy.
I don't have a brush layer they are different names the point of an action
is to do multiple steps on it's own and if you want to do it you have to
click the box on 50 steps ok for this ok for that not available ? if i
SELECT a command why would it not be available? but anyway I have no brush
layers they are numbered layer #1 and so forth.
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I am currently having this issue. I have tried all of the solutions noted and it still does not work. The file I am working with is a png with a transparent background, when I flatten the image it runs, but then the background is no longer transparent and the file becomes completely unusable. I even played with rename the layers and that did not work either. I am at a complete loss on what to do.
I'm not a developer but it shouldn't be impossible to free the action commands from layer name on Adobe's end instead of asking users to fix layer name by hand 35 times for an action that has a hundred commands, this is ridiculous.
It took me hours but at the end i solved it. In my particular case i was having a problem with brushes needed. I installed them and somehow they disappeared from the library in the middle of the action process. I loaded the brushes to the preset manager like five times one after another and they finally stayed there. IT WORKED.
You might try stopping the action and seeing what it's unable to select. I was having a problem and it turned out the brush that it was trying to select wasn't loading, I had to brush files with the same name and the wrong one was loaded.
Hi! I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm a bit desperate. I need to send over 1,000 photos that I took this weekend of a volleyball event and I am trying to put 3 different logos on them with no success. That's the message I get every time. I tried different things and even putting just one logo at the time, but it is still not working. Been doing this since last night. Can you help?
Action have some dependencies you may need to have three different actions and it look link you may be using a watermark with transparent borders and may well have positioning problems for the bordered may well be primed during place or paste. If you image have different sizes and orientation you may also have sizing and position problems with action. I have posted a script the will place in water marks based in the current document size. You could modify it and create three scripts on for each of your logo. Record three one step action that use these scripts then batch the actions with the Images Processor Pro to create the three version of each image. Scripts can use logic naming output files Actions have many limitations but are easy to record. So keep actions simple and use the with features like menu file>Automate>Batch or Automate>Image Processor Pro, and Scripts like menu File>Scripts>Image processor. PlaceWatermark.jsx customize the firs few var statements in the script. You can right click the link and save the script.
Thanks for the answer, but everything you said sounds like german to me lol I'm sorry, I tried to find a tutorial but i have no idea how to use scripts. I have done this before for a friend and never came across this issue.
When you get the message look at the step in the action pannel and look at the document open in Photoshop and look ate what is the curreny target Why is the command not useable is the document perhaps 16bit color look atr the tab or image window info.
Any document you run your action against MUST have a layer named "Layer 1" and a layer named "Layer 2" or those select steps will fail as the dialog is showing you... Photoshop cannot select "Layer 1" in the current document. Indeed, it appears that document (the logo) has ONLY one layer, but you've covered it over so we can't see what the layer name actually is (most likely it is "Background"). The dialog is also covering over other steps, so we can't tell what may be going on with those.
In addition you have steps "Select Document -3" and "Select Document +3"... if in the course of your action you close and open documents, the ordering of those documents may change. It's not likely a problem here, just something worth pointing out.
What command is not available? Commands have requirements if a requirement for using the command is missing the comment is not available for use. For example if the background layer is the current target is the background layer and there is no selection command Cut, Copy, and Deselect would not be available. If there were a selection those command would be available but command add layer mask using active selection would not be available because the background layer does not support transparency that layer transparency is locked. You do not show a screen capture showing the error massage the Photoshop UI that shows the action step the document and the image window layers palette etc. We can not see what you see there is not way we can tell you why the command is not available please read these guidelines
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