Hi, Thanks for purchasing the Epic Glow Photoshop action. __________________________________________________________________________________________ This action has been tested and working on Photoshop (English version only) CS3,CS4,CS5,CS6,CC Higher __________________________________________________________________________________________ Please check: 1. Your photo is in RGB color mode 2. Your photo is in 8bit color mode 3. You are running the English version of Photoshop. 4. If you are experiencing errors, try resetting your Photoshop preferences. To do this, hold down Alt, Ctrl, and Shift keys (Mac: Command, Option, Shift) while starting up Photoshop. A dialog box will appear asking if you wish to delete the preferences/settings file. 5. Avoid using small resolution images. For the best results, use Photos between 1500px - 3000px high/wide. ------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO INSTALL THE ACTION ------------------------------------------------------ 1. Inside Photoshop, go to the 'Window' menu and select 'Actions'. A window will now appear to the right hand side. 2. Inside the Actions window, click on the top right hand corner icon to reveal the drop down menu. From here select 'Load Actions...'. Select the action which came with the download. 3. The action will now appear in the actions panel. ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO USE THE ACTION (Check out the PDF file) This action comes with two effect: 1. Number one applies the action and keep the original background of your photos 2. Number two applies the action and make a default Background, which you can easily edit and change it to match it with your photo colors ------------------------------------------------------ 1. Open a photo to work with 2. Leave the photo layer locked and set as the 'Background'. To set your photo as the Background, select your photo layer and go to the menu 'Layer' --> 'New' --> 'Layer from Background..' 3. Set foreground color black and the background color white. 4. Create a new layer above the background layer called 'brush'. MUST be all lowercase. 5. With the 'brush' layer selected, brush onto the areas of your photo that you want to apply the effect.Please note that the "brush" layer must cover all area of face, body, and object you want to apply the effect. 6. Create a another layer above the brush layer called 'strok'. MUST be all lowercase. 7. With the 'strok' layer selected, brush onto the areas of your photo that you want to apply the effect.Please note that the "strok" layer determine the edge and the shine area you want to see and the dispersion effect...(Check out the PDF file) 8- strok" layer must be selected. 9. Now click play on the action! 10. After the action is done , you can duplicate the folder/ layers to add more details. or even change the colors and blending mode of all layers or folders to add more effect to your photo Please Check tutorial file for a demonstration of these steps. ------------------------------------------------------- If you need any help with the action please email me. rojsun@gmail.com Thank you for your support. Adam