Using Actions in batch editing??

Is there any way to use Actions in Batch Editing in Photoshop Elements 10 or any Elements??  Thanks!

No, this is one of the lines adobe has drawn to differentiate between PS and PSE. In PSE you can only run an action on one file at a time, not on a folder as in PS. It might be possible with an add-on like elements+, which claims to allow scripting for batch processing, but I've never tried that. Perhaps someone else will know for sure.

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