How I Build Custom Photoshop Brushes That Actually Work Inside Actions

How I Build Custom Photoshop Brushes That Actually Work Inside Actions

Last year I was building a retouching action for a mid-sized e-commerce client who needed consistent skin softening applied across several thousand product shots. The action worked beautifully in testing. Then I handed it off to a junior editor on their team, opened the results two days later, and found that the softening brush strokes were painting at 40 pixels on their machine instead of the 400 pixels I’d set on mine.