Although you can customize digital photo utilities to operate the way you want it to, it comes preconfigured with a set of Actions that perform common tasks that you may find useful.

Email Attachment

This Action is designed to help you easily share your pictures to your friends on the internet.  In order to keep from overloading your friend's inbox, it is  customary to resize your images before sending them.  This Action creates a smaller version of the image(s) you drag and drop onto it and attaches them to an email message.  You can edit the action to change the size of the images that it creates.. 
Built-in tasks: Resizer, Mailer
 

Frame Picture

This Action renders a matted frame around your image.  The result looks as if you took a picture of your framed image hanging on the wall.  You may set a multitude of parameters including mat and frame colors.
Built-in tasks: Framer, Saver

 

Organize

This is a very powerful action that renames and organizes your images.  Simply drag and drop your images or complete directories onto this Action to copy all the images into a directory called "organize" in your "My Pictures" directory.  The files will automatically be organized by year and month.  The images will also be renamed by date.  With this action you will be amazed how quickly you can organize your images.
Built-in tasks: Saver

MetaEdit

This action allows you to edit the EXIF metadata of your image.  Using this action you can add a title and description to your images that is saved in the same file as the image without changing the image itself.  Other elements of digital photo utilities such as the WebGenerator, Saver and Caption make use this information.  Because this data is in standard EXIF format, it can also be used by other applications.  This Action also sets the Artist and Copyright field.  You can edit the Action to set these to a constant value.
Built-in tasks: MetaDataEditor, Saver

WebGen

This Action creates a web gallery of HTML pages in the style you choose based on your images.  The result is a web site suitable for posting to a server on the internet or viewing on your local computer.  This Action resizes images to 640 x 480 pixels.  If you have added metadata to your images, WebGen uses this information to fill in the details of the website.
Built-in tasks: Resizer, Caption, WebGenerator