Jason

Sorry, been dealing with a VERY sick cat. It came out great. Way better than the way I was trying to do it Thanks

I'll give that a go. Thanks for the tip

Alright. Here's another question. My Red Riding Hood model arrived with orange jack-o-lantern nails. Best way to paint them red and still look real? I did it on another photo but after the gradient thing you did to my other image I'm wondering if that would work here or if there's a better way in general. My method involved spot healing all the black off and the hue/sat layer to the orange. It's not working well for this particular image though. Thanks D

Wow. Glad I had a similar shot I was able to place over it. I don't think I could pull off that gradient trick. Amazing as always!

You mean that artistically and strategically placed noise? Crap, busted, lol. Alright. Posted new 100% crop. I took your advice for rebuilding and used another image taken at a different angle and warped it into perspective. I probably went about it all wrong but the results worked. I'll let you do your thing for teaching purposes if you want. I can even supply a small crop of the image I warped in if you'd rather go that route

Hi D. I need some help with a reflection if you could. If this would be better in a class we can move it to there. Is there an easy way (hahahahaha, yeah I know better) to remove this glare. First shot is the 100% crop. The other picture is pulled back slightly for a better reference. I can't share the entire image as it's for a commercial job. Thanks bud

I'm not familiar with the error, but if your backup loads fine then maybe you're okay? Go to edit>preferences and in the general tab look for "default catalog" and see if you can change it to "Load most recent catalog". Then it should open the backup catalog if it was the last thing open in lightroom. You can also move the corrupt catalog to a different location so you have it if you need for some odd reason, but if you don't move it, lightroom will always know it's there. Or you can just delete it, again if the backup catalog doesn't show the same corruption.

If you're sticking with canon, look at the 6d for astrophotography.