Stock photo sites such as Stock. adobe.com or shutterstock.com are excellent sources of visual resources, for example, when you need an image to illustrate a poster or a flyer. You can also use stock photos as components for your creative projects, such as replacing a dull sky in your landscape shot with a more interesting one from a stock site.
However, stock images can be expensive, so we've teamed up with software company Franzis to give you 500 bonus stock images that you can use wherever you want, for as long as you want - without worrying about licensing issues.
This walkthrough is designed to help you get creative with a couple of images from this free $500 Stockfotos collection by using Photoshop CC's Replace Sky command and its Neural Filter menu's season-shifting Landscape Mixer.
1 Open a stock shot
Choose File > Open. Go to the stockphoto500 folder, then to the Landscape folder. Click on Mountains and choose the file called mountain_006.jpg. Click Open to view the shot in Photoshop.
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