Actions Not Working | Photoshop

Maya reset preferences. She restarted the computer. She sacrificed a USB drive to the tech gods. Nothing.

Frustrated, she double-clicked the first raw file—a silver watch on a marble slab—and ran the action manually, step-by-step. photoshop actions not working

She opened the Action. Clicked the offending step—the “Select Layer” command. In the dropdown, she changed the specific name “Layer 0” to the wildcard: Maya reset preferences

Maya stared at the screen, her reflection a pale ghost in the darkness of her studio. The deadline was in six hours. The client wanted thirty product shots retouched, color-corrected, and resized. Normally, that was a two-coffee job. Let the Action run, lean back, watch the magic. Nothing

Photoshop whirred. Then, a red pop-up of doom: “The command ‘Select’ is not currently available.”