Returning after years away
I have been away for 3d modeling for moe years thet I care to share but am now retired and want to include it again so not totally new but a little lost all the same. I have a question on software brush type products. If something says it needs photoshop 7+ will it work with Photoshop Elements? I don't know if there is a better spot to ask but searching the forum didn't give me and answer. Thank you for any and all help or advice.
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Which version of Photoshop Elements do you have? I have a shedload of brushes (many Ron Deviney's, but some others too) and most but not all work in PSE9. The ones that say "PS CC only" don't always work, but those labelled "PS CS6" do.
More recently I bought PSE2018 and (as far as I can recall) all of the brushes work there.
Thank you for responding. I haven't picked up PS Elements yet so if I do it will be the current one. I do however own a few Daz products like, Rajraja Windsome Water Backgrounds, that say the brushes require photoshop 7+. I am wondering if I purchase PS Elements if that will suffice? I own photoshop 4 on 3 1/2 inch disks but no longer have a computer with that drive and PS4 is almost as old as I am so not sure it would work with win10 at all.
Well PS 7 is even older than the PS CS-series, so I would suspect they would work in any recent PSE version. But I don't own any of RajRaja's brushes so I can't test them to see.
There's always the Daz3D 30-day money back guarantee if they don't work ...
I think you are correct and have been wanting to pickup ps elements. I guess I just needed a bit of encouragement. Thank you.
Well PS compatibility should not have been my question. I am unable to load in a background image or change the background color. I searched the forums, read about using the environment tab, when I do nothing pops up to allow any change, and I can't chnage the backgound color from the viewport 3bar thing either? I have been stepping through the tutorial but so far that just has me load scenes not backgound images. I know how to make a primitive plane, add it to the viewport and add an image to that plane but it use to be possible just to add/import a background to the view port. Anyone have advice on where I could look for step by step directions?
You need to be in the Environment tab, then at the top there's a drop-down list which defaults to "None" - click on that and select "Backdrop". Then you can either put in a background colour by clicking on the colour bar (which defaults to fully white), or click on the arrow next to the bar under the "Background" heading and browse to the location of your image file.
The drawback is that the image will stretch or compress if it's aspect ratio is different from your render setting. There are a couple of ways round that, one is to use a plane (as you have been doing), another is to click on the context menu at the top if the Environment Tab and select "Adjust Aspect Ratio to Backdrop" or "Adjust Dimensions to Backdrop", but these are only useful if you don't mind what shape your render turns out to be. Personally I use Photoshop Elements to crop an image to the shape I want. In fact I've been building up a mini-library of images to use as backdrops with the typical ratios I use for renders: 1:1, 4:3, 3;4, 16:9.
Thank you again for your response. I was trying to use the environment tab but the window it was suppose to open would not open. After reading and try a number of tutorials or other forum comments I decided to reload dazstudio and after doing that the windown would open and offerr me the choices you detailed. I was able to load in and adjust the sizes. I just moved to Florida and want somesea type rederings, made into canvas, for a few walls. Here is an example. It is just a rough start but at least I know how to make it. So much to relearn.