How to Build Custom Photoshop Brushes That Actually Work Inside Actions

How to Build Custom Photoshop Brushes That Actually Work Inside Actions

Last spring I was setting up a new dodging-and-burning action for a cosmetics client, one of those workflows where consistency really matters because the same action runs across 300 product shots in a single batch. The action broke on the third image. Not a layer issue, not a color mode conflict. The brush I had defined for the Healing Brush step had a texture applied that referenced a pattern the client’s machine didn’t have loaded.