Brushes & Tools
How to Build Custom Photoshop Brushes That Actually Work Inside Actions
Every time I open a client’s Photoshop file and find a dozen unnamed brushes with opacity set to 37% and hardness at some arbitrary middle value, I feel it in my chest. Not judgment, exactly. More like recognition. That was me, fifteen years ago, before I understood that a brush isn’t just a painting tool. Inside an automated workflow, it’s a variable. And variables you don’t control will eventually wreck a batch run at the worst possible time.