what is an action for?

Hi everyone!
This is my first post...
I just donloaded a .atn (a tv lines action)
I wonder what is that for...
at first i only wanted to create this tv lines on one pic.jpg...but it appears that an action is more comlicated that i thought..:-/
i can't open it, i can,t find it in my actions palette...i don;t know what is that for..:-/
any help would be greatly appreciated

3Dzigner
----still llearning.....

It's basically like a Macro in Microsoft Word. It records a set of steps that you perform in photoshop, then you can play back all those steps at the push of a button. It helps with repetitive tasks like resizing images and adding an effect to a series of images. With Actions, you could resize an entire directory of images to certain dimensions at the press of a button.

To use them, you just need to put it in your Actions folder, which is in the same directory as where you installed Photoshop. Then you find it in the list of actions in the Actions palette and press the play button. If it isn't listed in the actions palette, click the "right facing arrow" at the top of the palette and the click load actions or whatever it says there. Then choose the file that you unzipped to your actions directory, and it should be added to the list. then you can select it and play it.

Thanks Deker for ur time!
But still it didn;t work...
it appears there is some error..
anyway..
do u know a good tut to make tv lines over a pic?

1

2

3

4

5

notice some idiot posted the same question TWICE!!!! within only a few weeks of eachother no less...what a f00l

hmm...
the day before 9/11 he was going about his dreams of making scan lines while people were about to execute some horrible thing thousands of miles away....

hehe! thx dude!;-)