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New to the site and I'm wondering if anyone could give me a little assistance!

I have jpegs of a LOT of fabric swatches that are to be inserted into a PSD file of a living room as the window blinds and this needs to be achieved via an Action.

 

The way they are intended to work is:

• the fabric swatch is opened

• a pattern is generated from the swatch

• a PSD file is opened

• the relevant layer is selected and a pattern overlay is chosen which makes the swatch appear as if it is used on the blinds

All well and good.  BUT of course when I record the action and create the pattern from one swatch, whenever I run the action with a DIFFERENT swatch it still uses the swatch that was used when I recorded it!

For example I create the action with olive_swatch.jpeg and it works a charm.  But when I open teal_swatch.jpeg it still chooses olive.swatch.jpeg when I apply the pattern to the layer.

Anyone got any ideas?

Dave