Christina Keddie

2784x1848 is about 5.1 megapixels (5,144,832 pixels). That's just barely in the bold/desperate zone for an 8x12 print. http://www.damiensymonds.net/2014/03/how-aggressively-can-i-crop.html Canvas *is* more forgiving, but I'm really not sure about this one... Maybe post the full image (resized for web) plus a 700x700 crop of your master file, and Damien can give his opinion on what you can do with it?

You mean making a before and after?

Just went through the troubleshooter myself to check, and you only get the screen telling you to have that flatten box checked if you've previously clicked a link saying you don't care about the quality of your photos.

Yep, this is in both sets of instructions.

It's a link from the instructions on the watermarking action. I pulled it directly from the fixed watermark, no border instructions, but I imagine it's also in the fixed watermark with a border instructions.

Wait -- we never ever recommend flattening your files. When converting to sRGB, you should make sure to UNcheck "Flatten image to preserve appearance."

Eek!! You've got color space issues! Go all the way through this, please, to fix them: http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html

Add some large blurred out branches/leaves to the bottom to make it look like you shot through a tree (like your inspiration pic's blurred out birds in the foreground) and that might help!

Were you following these instructions? You don't use the "record again" button to change the position of the fixed watermark.

Really, really simple steps. Come on back if you have any questions!

Have you read this tutorial? I think the basic principles in it will help you here.

No, please post your SOOR. All your raw processing done, NO other work, and definitely NO cropping!

So go alllllll the way through the troubleshooter to fix this, if you haven't already.

What are KISS's trim and bleed guideline requirements? And what size album spread are you trying to design?

And you've gone through the troubleshooter now, I trust, and fixed things? Because you were in AdobeRGB and 16 bits, and the Color Settings window isn't where you fix that.

I thought that might be the case, but had to get on my computer to figure out which of the maximize buttons would do that to my PS. Glad it was something simple! NOW go through the troubleshooter and fix your color space and bit depth problems.

And what happens if you click the green circle at the top left when that bar is showing (like in the first screenshot of your second set of screenshots)?

No, do all your raw processing, save your SOOR as a JPG, and post that JPG here. Any cloning work will of course be done in PS, not in raw. Also: don't crop in raw, or while you're editing, at all, ever. Keep all your pixels, and only crop for specific outputs (on your disposable JPGs, not your master file).

You've got to show us an example.

And please fill this out for us? http://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html

But at least this file is in the correct color space and bit depth now, and your defaults have been corrected?

Looks like you tried to rename a set of web files by adding the ".web" to the ends of the file names? Anything you add has to come BEFORE the .jpg extension, and you can't use periods. Simply rename these files DSC_0855-web.jpg and you'll be set. (And you can rename by clicking on the file here, waiting a second, then clicking again to get a cursor where you can delete and change characters in the file name.)

With something like this where the adjustment is going to go over a small portion of the photo and you'll need to fiddle with sliders to match the color, I find it a ton easier to do the masking first, and then fiddle. So invert the mask of your hue/sat layer, mask it to show up just on the ear (and I would probably do one ear at a time), and then click colorize and fiddle with the sliders.

It's "combine" in your version. See how the icon is the same as in Damien's screenshot?

Have you tried hitting tab? If that doesn't work, can you screenshot your window so we can see which status bar(s) you mean?