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It would be hard to give you an example search term for that specific feature as basically the painting with the brush is just making a selection which the action will be able to defineby turning the area you brush into an active selection, which then can be used for multiple purposes, apply an effect (adobe cs6 and cc not cc 2014 can then apply the oil painting filter for example. Or it can be used to mask out out an area, whilst the action populates the rest of the background or edits either etc.

The most common actions that use these effects are

Particle effects

Dispersions

 or any of these http://graphicriver.net/search?utf8=✓&term=dispersion+action

You could look up custom control actions

Sorry it really does not help you much but the painting is 99% just so the action knows where to make a selection.

I have been meaning to do a tutorial series on creating advanced actions which includes this kind of feature, but just have not got around to doing it yet, but check back over the next few weeks and I will probably have started the series.

Or better still subscribe to our youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBulkl5TbOoZynv1S78HtuQ

THis is where I will probably upload them and best thing is it is free lol