Brushes & Textures
How to Build Custom Photoshop Brushes That Actually Work Inside Actions
Every few months I get a message from someone whose Photoshop action is breaking at the brush step. The dodge-and-burn sequence runs fine, the curves adjustment layers drop in perfectly, but the moment the action tries to paint with a custom brush, something goes wrong. Wrong size, wrong opacity, wrong texture entirely. I know exactly what’s happening because I made the same mistake for two years before I figured out what Photoshop is actually doing when it records a brush stroke.