Make Action With Healing Brush

Hello,
I have a digicam with a single hot pixel, and I would like to write an action using the heal brush to fix the problem. This can be done easily with the clone tool, but the heal brush does a better job.
However, when I record the action of using the heal brush, the action doesn't work. It seems that is doesn't record the source and destination parameters the way it does with say, the clone tool.
Can anyone help?
Thank in advance.

PS. I am using Photoshop CS

edde wrote:

Hello,
I have a digicam with a single hot pixel, and I would like to write an action using the heal brush to fix the problem. This can be done easily with the clone tool, but the heal brush does a better job. However, when I record the action of using the heal brush, the action doesn't work. It seems that is doesn't record the source and destination parameters the way it does with say, the clone tool. Can anyone help?
Thank in advance.

PS. I am using Photoshop CS

This is not the answer you seek perhaps, but I have gotten very good results from this freeware
standalone program, hotpixelkiller:

http://www.girder.nl/hpk/index.php
--

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

Mike Russell wrote:

edde wrote:

Hello,
I have a digicam with a single hot pixel, and I would like to write an action using the heal brush to fix the problem. This can be done easily with the clone tool, but the heal brush does a better job. However, when I record the action of using the heal brush, the action doesn't work. It seems that is doesn't record the source and destination parameters the way it does with say, the clone tool. Can anyone help?
Thank in advance.

PS. I am using Photoshop CS

This is not the answer you seek perhaps, but I have gotten very good results from this freeware
standalone program, hotpixelkiller:

http://www.girder.nl/hpk/index.php

Besides, an action with the healing brush would never work for all photos. If you want to use the healing brush, it's important to sample in the right area of the picture: an area similar to the place of the hot pixel. Because each photo is different, there is no way that an action could do that for each photo. It will be a 'hit or miss' kind of method: working well on one photo, not working at all on another. It would be better to simply make the hot pixel darker (not pure black) using an action.

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

Late to the party by about 6 weeks, but potentially useful to someone else.

Instead of using the healing brush for a one pixel fix, use the patch tool, which can be recorded.

Before recording the action
* Zoom in to 1600% so you can see the individual pixels. * Right-click in the ruler and select Pixels
* Use View > New Guides to have PS position guides around the hot pixel and one adjacent to it
* View > Snap (on)
* View > Snap to > Grid

Start recording action
* With the rectangular marquee, select the hot pixel
* Choose the Patch Tool from the tools palette
* Drag the selection to the adjacent pixel. PS will record the Patch command into the action.
* Stop recording.

~DannyR~

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Mike Russell wrote:

edde wrote:

Hello,
I have a digicam with a single hot pixel, and I would like to write an action using the heal brush to fix the problem. This can be done easily with the clone tool, but the heal brush does a better job. However, when I record the action of using the heal brush, the action doesn't work. It seems that is doesn't record the source and destination parameters the way it does with say, the clone tool. Can anyone help?
Thank in advance.

PS. I am using Photoshop CS

This is not the answer you seek perhaps, but I have gotten very good results from this freeware
standalone program, hotpixelkiller:

http://www.girder.nl/hpk/index.php

Besides, an action with the healing brush would never work for all photos. If you want to use the healing brush, it's important to sample in the right area of the picture: an area similar to the place of the hot pixel. Because each photo is different, there is no way that an action could do that for each photo. It will be a 'hit or miss' kind of method: working well on one photo, not working at all on another. It would be better to simply make the hot pixel darker (not pure black) using an action.