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Ohhhh yes, it looks great! 

Sorry I thought you were referring to the first photo I posted before the proper raw editing was done. The new version you helped me with looks really good!

Sure am! Sorry kids just woke up. 

How do i feel about it... hhmmmm I hate it now that I look back at it!!

I really appreciate your step by step help to get it back to looking normal. I would like to donate where can I do that please?

Ok I will post tonight 

Alright I might give it another try tonight, thank you.

Well that's a better reply than what i thought I was going to get!😨

I want to know how do I keep some of the saturation in the first photo but remove the pink from her eyes and make them pop more? 

Hi Damien,

I used Gels for the first time over the weekend and it's only my second photoshoot ever in a studio so please go easy. Oh and did I mention it was the first time I had a crack at frequency separation. I know I have a long way to go! Hence why you are the man!

Anyway I tried editing these pics (one is more saturated but it looked too much) and the eyes weren't looking right. So i found the eyes popped more when I desaturated and adjusted colours. Only issue is I still think I prefer the saturated version better but I want to tone it down slightly and fix the eyes so they aren't pink. I have tried several things but I'm failing! I tried to fix her underarms a bit too as they were a huge distraction and probably still are. The end photo will be cropped to just under her bra. 

Ok can you give me a quote for the 3 pics to edit? I have edited all the others and I just don’t want to spend anymore time on this job as I’m on now about $2 an hour 😂 in future I will definitely not be doing any photoshop work to peoples images for the same rate! I know I will need to learn how to edit properly I just don’t have the time right now. 

26 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

You open the raw file into Photoshop, then you do the straightening as the VERY first step.

Before you've even saved it as a PSD.

I had never used this straightening method before, did you discuss this in your classes? If so I have missed it and will look at it again. So what do i do now with editing the people out seeing as my cloning was a hot mess. 

Sorry let me explain myself again. I edited in ACR, then finish off the finer details in PS THEN once I'm done I save both jpeg and PSD. I would never edit a jpeg.

I save both. I save the JPEG to upload to their gallery and for socials and I save as a PSD also so if i need to go redo any editing. Im reading through your Bridge class now to see what im doing wrong.

I have done the bridge class. Is there a service you can recommend that can do these edits for me? I am happy to pay someone to do it. If i knew how to edit like a pro I wouldn't be here. f I am doing things wrong then that is how I will learn. Some people are quicker than others I guess to catch on. 

Ok first pic I had a crack at straightening it, not 100% sure if I did it right but I didn't change it to jpeg when I opened. If i change it to a jpeg file then how do I continue doing all my edits? My next question is, I have always done all my editing then saved it to my computer as a jpeg and then opened pic to just "crop and straighten it that way". I thought this was right as all my editing was done and I haven't been losing pixels this way? Then i tried cloning but it didn't work ha ha what have I done so wrong?

Second pic I will do tomorrow 

I will sit down tonight and do all 3 photos then upload again. Thank you Damien!!!!

Hey sorry me again! 

I love this photo but need her fist removed as it's very distracting. Is this even possible? Photo unedited as yet, straight out of camera. 

Hello, my client has asked for the second girl behind to be edited out, I am no expert with this. Is it east to do or is there someone i can pay to fix this for me? I haven't edited these photos yet at all, this is straight out of camera. She has also asked for similar thing on the other picture except she wants both girls behind removed. 

Ok how do I check the quality of the jpeg please? You said you save yours at 70, just trying to work out how I can check mine? Sorry for all the questions, but no point me pretending to know what I'm doing.. ?

Have now! Perfect!! I get it now. Thanks Damien!

So essentially I am saving two files? One as a PSD (master file) and one for my clients as a jpeg? Why can't I save the files just as Jpeg's? Why do I need a master file? I keep the CR2 files as well as jpeg

When I upload my photos to pixieset for my clients gallery of photos, they must be in jpeg right?

So after photoshop I was doing "save as" and saving it as a Jpeg in my folder that said "Edited", is this incorrect? It should be saved as a PSD? If i was to send off the photos to a customer are those files still the same as a jpeg in terms of opening them etc?

Hi Damien, just wanting to check if my photos are still too dark? Not sure if I am allowed to post this here or not, but genuinely want feedback after calibrating. Thanks. (I have just started the RAW class so please bare with me in terms of editing)

Thanks all done!

No I didn't. I only ticked the first one. How can I go back and change that option? I have tried starting the calibration process again but it skips this section. 

HI Damien, I've completed the calibration process and it did not take me to the above part (the adjust colour temp preset), it come up with the section to start calibration process. So i started it anyway, and the only section that I had to adjust was the brightness. It did not ask me to adjust any of the colours. What part have I missed or done wrong?

Hi Damien, not sure if my display is WIDE led or standard led? How can I tell? It's the Samsung 4K j590 32" (please ignore this) found my answer further along, sorry.