Hi,

Thank you for the support.

This guide will cover the installation and basic usage of the package.
For a detailed walkthourgh about basics and techniques for customization
to use after the action playback, please watch this video tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hms2aNmHq7I

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This Action has been tested on the English version of Photoshop CS3, CS4, CS5, CS6,
CC+.
If you’re using Photoshop in another language This Video shows how to change it
temporarily:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJAiu5W2gLE

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INSTALLATION
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1. Open Photoshop go to menu 'Window' then select 'Actions', the Actions panel will
open.

2. On the acions panel click the arrow icon at the top-right corner,
when the drop down menu opens select 'Load Action'.
Select the action file 'Artista - Mixed Media Art - Action'.

3. Go to menu 'Windows' then select 'Brush Presets'

4. Click the arrow icon at the top-right corner of this panel,

when the drop down menu opens select 'Load Brushes'.
Select the brushes file 'Artista - Mixed Media Art - Brushes'.

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BEFORE PLAYING THE ACTION
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1. Make sure your image is in RGB 8 bit color mode.

2. You're on the English version of photoshop

3. Your image has a good resolution, use images between 1500-3000 pixels
height/width
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HOW TO USE THE ACTION
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1. Open an image to work with in Photoshop

2. Make sure that the image's layer is locked and it's set as 'Background'.
To set a layer as Background go to menu 'Layers' -> 'New' -> 'Background from
Layer'

3. Create a new layer above the Background layer and call it 'mask'.
The name MUST be lowercase.

4. Select the mask layer and brush over the interested area of the image below.
For better results use a hard or slightly soft brush, you can use the brush
'Artista - Standard Hard'
from the Brushes Preset panel

You can use your preferred method to make this mask (wand tools, magnetic lasso,
pen tool...) just
make sure at the end that you have a nice mask of the front image and the rest of
the layer
has transparency.

5. Select the Brush tool and make sure that Opacity and Flow of the brush is set to
100%.
Also make sure that the Airbrush mode is set to OFF.

6. Open the Actions panel. Select the Action and click play!

7. The playback will take about 6 minutes and it will generate many graphic
elements
that can be tweaked and combined.

8. During the action's playback if the message 'Smart filters stacked on top of
this layer will not preview...' appears,
you can check the 'Don't show again' option and click OK, the action will continue
with the playback.

9. During the action's playback and ONLY on Photoshop versions CS3,CS4,CS5, when
the Layers Styles panels appears,
click OK to make the action continue.

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! Please watch the video tutorial for a better demonstration of this basic steps
and also
a walkthrough of customization techniques.
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ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT INFO
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1. If you get stuck for any reason during the action's playback and want to go back
at the History state you had before playing the action,
you can do it easily, the action saves a History Snapshot at the beginning of the
playback.

Open your History panel by going to menu 'Window'>'History' you'll se there's a

snapshot saved, double click it to go back
to the starting history state.
Another good way is to simply save your file before playing the action and if any
error occures close withouth saving and re-open it.

The Action also saves a second snapshot at the end of the playback,
if you make some variations that you don't like and want to start again the
customization phase,
use this second Snapshot in the History panel.

2. Always make sure to have the 2 layers 'mask' and 'Background' before playing the
action,
and also play the action only once in each psd.
If you already have a 'Artista - Output' folder in your file and want to plaback
the action again,
delete the folder and play the action.

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If you need any further help please contact me through my profile page on
Graphicriver:

http://graphicriver.net/user/BlackNull

Photocredits: www.pixabay.com / www.flickr.com

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Please don't forget to rate this product in your download section if you like it.

Thank you for the support,

BlackNull