PS CS Actions

Hi, (my first post in this community)
I have just discovered 'actions' in CS and started to use them to place a frame around some pics BUT one of the actions 'Recessed Frame' has me beaten & confused.
When I play the action I recieve the following messages:-

The command duplicate is not currently available. (and the others saying that others are not currently available) 'set, delete, set (again)' then the message 'warning no pixels were selected' and again currently not available, 'delete, channel frame edge' and at the end of all this I have a totally black picture area.
PShop help does not help me with this, how can I learn what to do with this and other actions??

I would suggest checking what mode your image is. Sometimes things don't work for certain modes like "Indexed color" etc. Also check that you have just one flatened layer, a lot of the default actions require flatened images, some also require selections etc.

I hope this helps in some small way.

Hi Cryptomanaic
Thanks for your reply I will give your ideas a try.

I checked. Recessed Frame requires a selection where you want the frame to be.