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My camera has over time developed a few bad pixels that show up noticeably on my images, no matter the exposure. I have a few hundred of photos to go through from a wedding and I wanted to make an action to clear them up. Noise reduction and dust and scratches won't clear this and I don't think there is a way to create an action that uses the clone or spot healer on specific parts of the image. After a little thinking, here's what I tried last night.
I shot an image with the camera with my lens cap on. Brought it in to PS, adjusted it so that it is perfectly black (noiseless) except for the bad pixels which I made white and saved it as sort of a template. Then, I tried recording this sequence as an action:
1. Take the image I want to fix, and make a duplicate layer.
2. Gaussian blur filter at about 15.
3. Create a mask on that layer.
4. Go to my "template" image I made (above) and select all, then copy.
5. Go back to the image I want to fix.
6. Paste in to the mask channel of the duplicate layer (alt-click on the mask and paste).
7. Flatten the image.
This works really great when I do it. But when I try to play back the action, it doesn't paste my template image in to the mask channel, it pastes it as a new layer. I am pretty sure this is possible because of some other actions I've used in the past, but I can't figure out how to record step 6 properly.
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