Josie Stahl

Thank you, Damien! 

Food grief! I completely forgot about the patch tool. I haven't used that guy in a long time. What do you think of the letter job?

Damien, I'm giving myself a little space from this letters challenge. What would be the first thing you tried to eliminate the wrinkles from the background blanket? I've been trying your "Creating a fake blanket with texture" tutorial but it is not going as well as I expected. Is that what you would do? If yes, then I'll just keep trying.

Oops. I went to play with the high pass layer and didn't put it back to what you had yet. The lack of detail in the cloned area is bugging me a lot and wondered if a higher setting on the high pass layer would change anything. 

This is what I've managed so far. Not quite happy with it though.

On 8/14/2023 at 4:45 PM, Damien Symonds said:

I'm fairly new to it myself.  I just used the default settings, and swiped aggressively with it.

Funny because I expected you'd be the ultimate expert.

Correction: Not the last step, step 6.

Thank you for that explanation, Damien. 

When applying the High Pass filter, how do you decide on the setting for it? I just used the setting you did in your file.

I am stuck on the mixer brush step. I have used the mixer brush exactly 1 time before today. I have played with it and watched some videos on how it works but I cannot find how to do what you did in that last step. Any advice you can give me or keywords to look it up myself? 

Oh my word. That is not even remotely close to the frequency separation I did. I am going to try to copy what you did. If I can figure it all out. 

So, do you have any recommendations on where to learn from?

Wow!! That looks great!  I don't consider myself a frequency separation expert at all. I just followed somebody's tutorial online that had previously worked for me. Can you tell me how you did it? Do you have a tutorial?

15 hours ago, Damien Symonds said:

Please take the class again soon

Shoot. I was afraid of that.

Oops. I believe I am out of practice. I tried again. 

Hi Damien, is it possible to edit out the lettering on the tshirt? I've tried cloning and the texture made it really, really difficult.

SOOC, SOOR, my attempt at using frequency separation, raw crop, crop with frequency separation 

Sorry about the confusion. She said micros SD - I just shortened it to SD without realizing it would cause confusion. She is using a micro SD card and adapter.

How do you advise going about recovering the photos?

Camera is a Canon Rebel T6.

SD card capacity is 64 GB. She has been told that it was formatted for her camera.

Card is a SanFisk Ultra micro SD and was brand new. 

She has tried uploading to computer both ways.

Hi, posting a question for my friend if that is ok. She recently had a photo shoot where her photos started saying "can't play back image" when she went back to look at them. After pressing the shutter, they were visible. The 5 newest photos were visible but as she took new ones, the older ones started returning the same message. She could always only view the 5 or so newest photos. (Gosh, I hope my explanation makes sense.)

Upon uploading to her computer, she got the same message when trying to view them in Lightroom. 

Is there anything she can do to fix this?

ooh! that's simple! Thanks. How did I do?

Hi Damien, I had to borrow a collar piece from a different photo for the collar on the lady's left. I am having a hard time getting them to match. Can you help me out?

I actually did that from the start but must have had that layer turned off when I posted previous photo. This is my final image then. Thank you!

To me anything higher than 7 makes them look green. What do you think?