Suzanne - I am certainly no expert on this, but here is what I found using the Little Perk action. After it runs you have 2 new layers - sharpen and little perk. You can adjust the intensity of each applied layer change by reducing the opacity using the slider at top of the layer palette. You can also turn off either effect by clicking on the eye for that layer.
If you only want the effect applied to a part of the image, the action has ended with the paintbrush selected and you can use it to "paint" sections of your photo with black to mask that part out of the change.
I found that the action was okay without any adjustments most of the time. Sometimes I didn't like the sharpen effect and turned it off, or slightly decreased the little perk effect with the opacity slider.
Hope this helps some. Maybe someone else will have a more comprehensive comment on Actions.
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