Why is my automation tools greyed out in photoshop 10?

II'm trying to batch my photos. However my automation tool is greyed. I have never used this before.

Well, you could try opening them all in the raw converter and using then noise reduction there, if that will do it. When you select multiple images in the strip on the left side of the window, changes made to one image apply to all selected photos, and you can open other formats than raw there, like tiff or jpg.
But otherwise, you are up against one of adobe's big brick walls between PSE and PS. They will not allow actions to run on more than one image at a time.
I've heard some people say that they've had success with Dr Brown's image processor, as another alternative, although I've not tried it.

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