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No, nothing of substance has changed. Everything you learned in class is still relevant.

I have a Mac desktop running Big Sur 11.7.10 and Photoshop 24.2.0. It is over 8 years old, and has 16GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 706GB free out of 1000GB, and it runs a Radeon Pro 555 2GB graphics card. The last time I shut down was last night. I run a cleanup program about once a month. I recently updated my Bridge and Camera Raw programmes. Bridge is now 2022 ver.12.0.4.286 and Camera Raw 16.5. When I go to do noise removal there is AI and Manual. I no longer have Sharpening and things are different. Do I need to re-take one of your courses so I know what to do now? I expect to get a new computer this year and expect I'll update programmes further (I can't go any further with my programmes at this point). Will I need to re-do courses since everything will have changed so much? Thanks Damien. I see sharpening now but I'm still confused.

Yeah, that might be okay.

Less wide.

That's too much now

This has not been edited in RAW yet. I'll just leave it here and move on to other photos.

Maybe the whole thing needs to be wider?

When I restarted the computer it let me edit a picture in Bridge

Not quite vertical at the top left corner?

How does this correction look? Not sure if it's worth it to correct the distortion of the building here--your thought?

Could you do this for me? https://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html

Not that I can think of. It's been on...

Hmmm ... has anything changed with your computer since the last time you edited a raw file?

Why is it saying this?

Because Adobe has a habit of changing our colour space at random times without us knowing, so we ALWAYS have to watch that field. https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html

I'm not sure I knew that. What's the difference?

Yes, your photo needs some perspective correction in both directions.

I started over to refresh and follow the tutorial step-by-step. I entered "control T." First, I rotated it slightly so that the horizontal brickwork was, in fact, horizontal:" When I line up a building line, the one below the main subject's head: the lines higher on the building; the "horizon" at the spectators' feet; and the curb close to me are not straight. OR, best to refer to your second example photo (I will try this now): For the sake of the exercise, I used the Perspective and Skew functions to do this:

What makes you say the lines on the building weren't accurate?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2014/03/distortion-or-perspective-correction.html 1. I straightened the horizon by eyeballing it; is this the best starting point? (The line of the feet in the background was not accurate, nor were the lines on the building.) Shot at 20 mm. 2. Using the scale, how to "stretch" the stubbiness of the people, namely the tall Nigerian guy to the right? I've pulled at the different handles with no result. Yes, I need more practice with this. SOOR photo for reference:

That would work and this is the best one yet. I’d still upgrade the RAM to 64GB, but the rest is fine. You might want to use the NVIDIA Studio Drivers, which are meant for Adobe’s products.

Yeah, you will never get it right with a new Mac and Millers. Regardless what specs they give. We have had many users over the years in your situation and never had good results. They could never get things matching. Stop. Using. Millers.