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<p>VSCO Film Pack is good but expensive. All Packs can be used for portraits or landscapes with some tweakings to meet preferences.</p>

<p>https://www.digitalanarchy.com/primatte/main.html<br>

I don't know if it's better than PhotoKey, but it's the same price anyway...</p>

<p>Alt+right click is not the way to select a clone point, you must do Alt+left click for this.<br>

Alt+right click allows you to change brush size or hardness when you move the mouse horizontally ou vertically</p>

<p>The easiest way to copy this look (or any other look) is to get the photoshop plugin 'PhotoCopy' (Digital Film Tools), it does a pretty good job, you can adjust the settings and save the result as a preset for further use.<br>

If you send me an image, I'll process it, so you will see the result...</p>

<p>I would suggest these:<br>

https://www.creativelive.com/catalog/all?qd=ben+wilmore&sort=1&upcoming=0<br>

You will find everything you need there. Ben Willmore is a top teacher and his explanations are always clear and easy to follow. </p>

<p>Nik is now a Google brand and as far as I know, you can't buy a single application such as Silver Efex: you must buy the whole collection<br>

http://www.google.com/nikcollection/</p>

<p>I have Fractalius (version 1.85) installed in Photoshop CC on Win7 64 bits and the plugin works properly. But if you have a high resolution image, the process is quite slow and the progess bar must complete several steps...Try the plugin with a low resolution image (800 pix width for example) and you will see if the plugin works properly.</p>

<p>I have many FLO and PTM actions. These actions are good but expensive. They are adjustable, since you have access to all layers. The best thing is to try some of these actions to see if it's what you are looking for.</p>

<p>Lr5 will support Raw files from these cameras. About a step by step LR5 book, I would suggest the Scott Kelby Book:<br>

http://www.amazon.com/Photoshop-Lightroom-Digital-Photographers-Voices/dp/0321934318</p>

 

Snapseed is great, very easy to use too. You have all important basic adjustments and many great photo effects too. And it's now free but limited to android and ios I think. Google had decided to stop the desktop version for Win and mac (the bastards...)

But I have the Win version and I can send it to you upon request.

<p>I have installed PS CC on my win7 64 bits system and everything is working fine except one thing: there is no 3D panel available when I go to the Window tab (there is no Window/3D at all). And I can't open any 3D file neither. Is there something wrong in my installation? ?</p>

<p>You are right, you can install again on another machine.</p>

<p>The PS setup installs the 32 bits and 64 bits versions automatically on a 64 bits machine, but the 2 versions are in two separate folders on the C drive.</p>

<p>You can add a new blank layer above the otiginal image and set the blending mode to color. Then all you have to do is to paint any color you want with the brush. This is a non destructive workflow.</p>

<p>You can do HDR fusion in Elements without using a plugin. It's very easy to do:<br>

Go to <strong>File/New/Photomerge exposure</strong> and here you are.</p>

 

<p>I have Windows 7 64 bits and I have installed this codec pack:<br>

http://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/<br>

It's worth the 15$ cost. You can adjust the thumbnail size from small to extra large.</p>

<p>Herma, you can't use the mouse wheel to size a brush in CS5. Here is a nice trick for this.<br>

Select the brush tool, press the Alt key and the right mouse button, then move the mouse to the right to increase size and to the left to decrease size. If you move the mouse up or down, this will increase or decrease hardness!<br>

And this work with many tools such as: clone tool, healing brush, eraser tool, smudge and burn tool.</p>

 

<p>-To make the fence look more horizontal, you can use the Free transform tool (duplicate the image layer first), but the trick here is to keep the Ctrl key on when working on a control point, so only a small part of the image is affected.<br /> -To straighten the posts, you can use the warp tool (Edit/Transform/Warp) and select appropriate points in the grid to straighten these posts.<br /> Here is an example with your image:<br>

http://postimage.org/image/2ve2khld0/</p>

 

<p>A pretty nice work Randall. Here is a very useful trick to control the brush size when you have to do some painting over many parts of the image:<br>

Select the brush tool. Hold on the <strong>right mouse button and the Alt key</strong>. Move the mouse to the right to increase brush size and to the left to decrease the size. I love this trick. And it works also with other tools such as the clone tool, spot healing brush, eraser tool, smuge, blur or sharpen toll.</p>

 

<p>Here are some important details:<br>

1- Open the base image and the texture image. You don't have to create any layer here. Check if both images have the same size: if not, resize the texture.<br>

2- Click on the 'arrange' icon (the last icon in the top bar) to split the workspace to make both images visible. Select the move tool and click on the texture image and drag it on the base image (press the Ctrl key so the 2 images will be automatically aligned). Go back to the 'arrange' icon to have only one image visible. You now have 2 layers: the backgroung layer and the texture layer above.<br>

3- OK<br>

4- Add a mask to the texture layer: this mask is white (default). This mask has no effect for now. Click on this mask to select it and check if the foreground color is black; then paint with a soft brush to erase texture on any part of the picture (remember this: black hides and white reveals).<br>

If you pefer. you can invert the mask to make it black (ctrl+i) and paint with white to reveal the texture on any part of the picture.<br>

5-OK</p>

<p>If I understand right, you want to apply a texture on your image and you want the image to retain some of the texture (for example the texture would be visible in the sky but not too much on other parts of the picture).<br>

If this is your goal, this can be done easily in Elements 9: open both your image and the texture image, then drag this texture on top of your image and set the blending mode of the texture layer to linear burn. Adjust opacity to taste. Add a mask to the texture layer and paint with a soft brush on this mask using black color (at 100% brush opacity or less) to erase the texture on some parts of image.<br>

If I had your images, I could make a short tutorial for you to show how to do all the above steps.</p>

<p>You can use the 'save for the web' option (File/save for the web). You will have total control on image parameters.</p>

<p>You can buy or download for free tons of Photoshop actions online (google...). But these actions are created in photoshop CSx (you can't record an action in Elements, but you can play any Elements compatible action).<br /> Most of the time, an action done in CSx won't play in Elements, unless this action uses only features supported by Elements...<br /> You will find useful informations here: http://www.texaschicksblogsandpics.com/<br>

PS: the free downloads are safe: actions are .atn files and you won't find viruses hidden in these files!</p>

<p>When Photoshop tools show unusual behavior, it is recommended to reset preferences.</p>

<p>I think this effect was done with Fractalius</p>