Certiport ACA Photoshop Certification Practice Test

Recording an action creates a reusable sequence of edits that you can apply exactly the same way every time. By capturing the steps you perform, you build a single, repeatable recipe. Once that action exists, you can run it on a whole folder of images with Batch Processing, applying the same edits quickly and consistently across all files. This combination is what makes applying identical edits to many images efficient.

Cloning focuses on copying pixels within a single image, not applying edits across multiple files. Manual edits are simply too slow for a batch, and Batch Processing by itself isn’t useful without a defined set of edits to apply.