Actions Not Working | Photoshop

It should work. It had worked yesterday on the test images.

Select. Fine. Color Range. Fine. Curves… Error. photoshop actions not working

Maya didn’t laugh or cheer. She just closed her eyes, listened to the soft hum of the hard drive, and poured a third coffee. The action wasn't the problem. The problem was assuming the past still fit the present. It should work

She tried again. New error: “Could not complete because of a program error.” Curves… Error

Frustrated, she double-clicked the first raw file—a silver watch on a marble slab—and ran the action manually, step-by-step.

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:

Back then, she’d recorded Pro_Gloss on a simple JPEG with a layer named “Layer 0.” But her new raw workflow converted every image to a background layer named “Background.” The action was looking for “Layer 0.” When it didn’t find it, it choked.