What Is an ATN File?
A file with the ATN file extension is an Adobe Photoshop Actions file. It’s built to record steps/actions in Photoshop and is meant to be “played” again at a later time to automate those same steps. ATN files are basically shortcuts through Photoshop that are useful if you find yourself going through many of the same steps time and time again. These steps are recorded so Photoshop knows exactly what to do when you run the Actions file. The file can be used on any computer that opens it, assuming the same actionable items are present in that installation of Photoshop.
How to Open an ATN File
ATN files are used with Adobe Photoshop, so that’s what you need to open them. If double-clicking or double-tapping doesn’t open the file, follow these steps:
How to Convert an ATN File
ATN files need to be in a specific format for Adobe Photoshop to recognize them. Plus, since there isn’t other software that uses these types of ATN files, there’s no need to convert the file to any other format. However, you can convert an ATN file to an XML file so that you can edit the steps, and then convert the XML file back to an ATN file for use in Photoshop. Here’s how to do that: ATN files are nothing more than instructions for how to maneuver around Photoshop, so you can’t convert one to PSD, which is the actual project file that contains images, layers, text, etc.
More Help With ATN Files
You can download ATN files made by other users and import them into your own Photoshop program using the steps in the first section above. If your file isn’t working with Photoshop, it’s possible it isn’t really an Actions file. If the file extension doesn’t read “.ATN” then you’re most likely dealing with something totally different. For example, the ATT file extension is very similar to ATN but belongs to either Alphacam Lathe Tool files or a Web Form Post Data files, neither of which can be used with Photoshop. Pro Tools Elastic Audio Analysis files are similar. They use the AAN file extension, which can easily be mistaken for an ATN file and attempted to be used in Photoshop. Instead, these open with Pro Tools from Avid. Finally, there’s the ATM file extension that’s used as either a 3D scene file by the 3D modeling app Vue, or an audio file used by PSP games.
