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<p>Well not crazy about the nudity on the front page- and would like to see some kind of feedback from viewers- not necessarily a popularity feature, but more of a feedback system/comment system<br> If you want a winning design, create something like 500px had BEFORE their latest crappy design change- The developers there are refusing to listen to the large amount of complaints about the new design, because they want to attract more snapshooters and weekend photographers because they apparently weren't making enough money off of professionals because professionals were dropping out of the site them ore amateurs that came in- so now 500px is evidently courting amateurs-<br> The 500px design was a winning design 10 months ago or so- before their latest design change- it was clean, easy to use, looked great- uncluttered- and it showed the photos front and center-<br> I really think that if a site were to crop up that creates a site like 500px used to be, and was geared towards more professional photographers, semi-pros, and serious amateurs, it would attract a pretty good following, but would take some time to make it well known- You could advertise it like "What 500px should have been" or something lol </p>

<p>500px really stinks now- uit was ok before- although like you the whole popularity thing kinda stunk- but was tolerable- now however, with their most recent design change, they cram your photos down at the bottom of your portfolio page, cut them off, with a huge ugly wasted space at the top now- then you click on a photo and they have crammed all the info for the photo beside the photo now- it looks awful, and now they are displaying OTHER people's photos on YOUR portfolio</p> <p>I asked htem about it and they basically told me to lump it- "all sites change with itme" and so I went into their forums and noticed that many many people were complaining- more people every day were complaining- and for weeks we got no response from the leadership- then we got a canned lame excuse- and next thing I know they deleted the whole forum- I asked them why and got another lame excuse</p> <p>500px is the most unprofessional website I've ever had the4 misfortune of signing up to- I waited for years for them to get through their growing pains- with one broken update after another- and when they finally get a design that looks and functions ok- they decide- nope- not going to keep it- and they begin cramming OTHER people's photos onto our portfolio pages- WE pay for the site- we should not be forced to display other people's photos- and when we pay for a photo site to display Our photos- our photos should be front and center- not crammed at the bottom of the page and cut off just so the site can jam social networking crap into the headers of the portfolio, and when people complain about the change, the leadership should be professional enough to address the people and not simply delete the forum so that the public can't see that people are upset about the change</p> <p>I'm done with 500px- their attitude sucks and they are immature and unprofessional! I know of no pro who would want to pay for a site only to have OTHER people's photos displayed on their portfolio- who in their right mind thought that would be a good idea? Unreal! Apparently they no longer care what their paying customers want and are simply interested in selling- hence why they are forcing OTHER people's photos onto our portfolios- and they apparently are now too lazy to fix the other design flaws and so they are now just ignoring the people's complaints and suggestions.</p> <p>I really tried to like the site- I was patient through Lots of growing pains- endured one broken design update after another- and said nothing- then they started shoving the horrible social networking crap on us- and it started to become apparent the direction they were going in- I had hoped I was wrong- but this latest design update, and their lack of concern about their paying customer's reaction just shows me they aren't worth bothering with any longer-</p> <p>Anyways- try viewbug.com they run contests as well, and have a pretty good amount of people on the site- The contests usually have several hundred to thousand entries, so it can be hard to get recognized In the contests, as the photos get buried pretty quick pack a few pages- but all in all they are a pretty good site- however they do have the like and award system- but I simply ignore it- You can also try pbase- or 1x.com- not my favorite setups for a photo site- but they have a good amount of people on them- haven't checked out dpchallenge.com but they run contests too-</p> <p>I too am looking for an alternative, and if I find a great one i'll post here-</p>

<p>Hey thatnks Pete- Yeah I work with a mouse- just got used to it- I can get pretty precise with the mouse- enough for what I do anyways- I don't ever do any precise masking or anything- for more complicated selections I sue luminosity masks and feather the mask slightly- I have a ten step luminosity mask action I run which makes pretty good selections based on luminosity levels-- I just subtract where not needed-</p> <p>I didn't realize you can copy paste between actions- that will save me loads of work as I use many of the same masks, layers for a number of actions- I just learned I can actually run another action within an action I'm creating- for instance, I am creating action #11, at any point of recording, I can run action # 4- 5 or whatever and it will record that and incorporate action 4 into the new action- pretty cool- didn't realize that could be done-<br> Wish I had learned photoshop years ago though- back when I was able to grasp things better- But I grew up in generation where there weren't any personal computers really- All we had for toys were sticks and twigs- rocks too- kids today know more than I do about computers- phones etc- oh well- I'm slowly picking it up-</p>

<p> think I figured it out- I had to do a really weird work-around- while recording the action, Ihad to make a group for my second action, put the layers into the group folder,, then delete just the group folder- leaving the layers intact, then make another group folder- (I also have to make a stamped layer on my first action set before running the next action set)- for some weird reason this seems to work- Wish I knew more about layers/groups etc- but oh well- If I didn't delete the group folder- and create another one, when I ran the action both my first action set and second would be linked together- in other words, I would collapse the top group folder, and my first group would be inside the top group folder (I guess- I would collapse the top folder and the base, bottom group folder would 'dissappear'- I just assumed it was inside the top group folder)</p> <p > <br> I know it sounds weird, but that is what was happening- but since doing the workaround, I can collapse the top group folder, and work on the base/first group folder layers, edit the layers I need to, then expand top group and edit those as well-</p> <p > <br> I don't think I'll ever get the hang of groups, folders, layers etc- within actions-</p> <p > <br> Not sure why that all happened like that- but it seems to be working now- tried it on several action sets that I have- and it's working now- I can run one, then another right on top Not even sure how I stumbled on that solution- or why it works, but it's working now- I'm sure there's an easier way- but it's not big deal to do it this way-</p>

<p>Thanks Pete- I tried making a stamped layer of the group- and could run another action over the first group that way- but I run into an issue where if I take one of the top layers, make a correction, such as erase part of the effect- like erase or mask out where 'lighten' is (like makes it out from a face, or whatever) then go to my lower/first group, and try to adjust some layers, the face doesn't get adjusted (the part I erased in top layers)</p> <p>However, this only happened when I erased from one of the layers which I changed the mode to LAB (then back again to RBG after it ran)- I'm afraid I just don't understand layers and masks and groups that well I guess- not sure why that one layer would act like that on lower group beneath it</p>

<p>Ok folks, I am trying to run an action ABOVE a GROUP that is in another action-</p> <p>In other words, I want to run an action which as a group in it- leave te group active, so that I can use the layers I n that group t adjust things- bu I want to run another action immediately above this action without having to flatten the first action. But when I try to do this- what happens is that some layers will dissappear in my original action, and some of hte layers i nthe second action will end up below the group of the first action</p> <p>Is this making sense? Florabella actions for photoshop has it so you can run an action- and run another action above the first, and run as many as you want- erach action has a group in it- but I'm unsure how to gwet my actiosn to play aboe an action with a group in it- becuase thep roblems I mentioned occur-</p> <p>in the following video you'll note that she runs an action, then immediately runs another one right on top- the second one is right around 1:18 of the video- Somehow she gets her actiosn to run above a group- Then she runs another one above that at around 1:58 or so- she runs several infact- I've tried stamping my image above the group, and running an action above that- but that doesn't work either- there must be soem trick to this- getting actions to run ABOVE an action with a group in it? </p> <p>http://www.florabellacollection.com/video-tutorial-9---florabella-trinity-photoshop-actions.html</p>