Sam B

You should find some help with these videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lightroom+color+grading

Here's some video tutorials for you.  Hope this helps you. https://www.youtube.com/c/Photoshoptrainingchannel/search?query=color%20grading

Not sure if this will help, but it is worth a try.  Open Nik Preferences and uncheck the Selective Tool automatically on launch option..

Take a look at some of these tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+replace+eyes+in+photoshop

Yeah, it has been awhile since it was updated.  I just installed it on Win 11 and it seems to be working ok still.

Another option is FastPicture Viewer Codec Pack.  It's $9.99, but it shows PSD thumbnails as well as a host of other thumbnails (RAW files for example). https://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/111706-buy-from-affinity-store-or-mac-app-store/

Take a look at Affinity Photo. A nice cheaper alternative to Photoshop. A quick note, if do decide to buy Affinity Photo, buy it from the website not the App Store.

Take a look at Openshot: https://www.openshot.org/

That's funny, 2.5 is the first version I bought those many years ago.  I would never go back to it.  :-D

I always check the Downdetector website to see if there are problems being reported. https://downdetector.com/status/xfinity/

Here is the technique I use to turn B&W into color: https://blog.designcrowd.com/article/889/colorize-a-black-and-white-image A couple of examples:  Click on original size to see larger pictures.

Hi Ray, This tutorial from Piximperfect might help: https://youtu.be/sRMFYKiXB6U

Nice work Lyle!

I did a general Youtube search and came up with some results: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mirrored+sunglasses+photoshop

Take a look at https://ezgreenscreen.com/ It is a plug-in for Photoshop.  It looks like you can do batch processing: https://ezgreenscreen.com/green-screen-batch-processing-using-hot-folder.php

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/block_windows_11_from_installing.html

Try setting your PC to Ultimate Performance power plan.

Agreed, NEO might be a good starting point for your standard powerline shots.  Certainly not for the type that MJR tackled with manual cloning of a ton of wires. :D