Josie Stahl

Is this what you had in mind?

Ok. Does this look any better? (rough masking)

Hi Damien, I'm attempting a background swap and I'm having a bit of trouble blending the 2 part. 1st photo is original SOOR 2nd is my edit 3rd is the new background that is not my photo. I got it from here: https://www.1zoom.me/en/wallpaper/525353/z15887/1600x1200 4th photo is my best attempt at blending the 2 images. 5th is the area I'm having the most trouble with - down the side of the gentleman's leg. Would you do anything different? That area is masked a little rough because I'm not so sure about what I did. I also added a few unrefined shadows. Do I just need to polish it or something else? Or is that not my biggest problem?

Aaaaaaand..... as soon as I posted, I had another idea to try. That actually worked. I cloned at 20% opacity. That got me non-blotchy skin.

Hi Damien, I'm not having much luck removing the strands of hair on the lady's forehead and temple. There's also a strand going through one eye. I've tried cloning and the dust and scratches filter. With both methods I'm having a hard time with skin color that changes too much. How would you go about it? Maybe I'm just not careful enough... I dunno. I've spend so much time on this already. Can it be done?

ok. Thank you for your time.

And by cloning, you mean just getting rid of this part? Or is there more I can do?

Hi Damien, I need your help again. In this image, bride is not happy with the hair flying up and away. I am not sure how to fix them. I have tried taming the flyaways abover her hair with liquify like I saw in a recent post on Ask Damien FB group, but it doesn't work because of the grain of the wood and also, it doesn't fix the short hair going straight up from the top of the forehead. Don't know if I'm explaining things correctly here... Anyway, I've also thought of borrowing her hair from the rusty background. I can align them pretty good, but can't match the colors. What would you suggest?

Now his arm is the only thing I can't get back to it's former self. Does that look ok? Is CS6 supposed to have the freeze parts of the photo option when liquifying?

New version. I can't even delete the skinny guy layers.

Well Damien, joke's on me. I got rid of the wrong belly. And they don't even want to keep that guy skinny. ?

Thank you, Damien.

Gosh, I was careless. I hope I didn't miss anything here.

Well, I'd be happy with this one. thank you Damien!

Ok. I'll give it a go.

Hi Damien, I've been asked to get rid of the fat belly look on the groom, as he doesn't have one in real life. Both photos are SOOR with some cloning on the background. The second one I have liquified a bit and did a little dodge and burn. It has helped somewhat but it's not quite right yet. Maybe I wasn't aggressive enough. I'm not sure anything more can be done because that's the way he's standing. What do you think?

Does the shadow look ok? Goodness, you gave me a much easier way than I would have attempted.

Thank you! I will give it a go.

K. I'll get that tomorrow.

Really? Man, you've made my day! I'll see if I can add shadowing. that's the part I'm struggling with.

Hi Damien, I got myself in a pickle by using a blanket that the couple now wants removed. I have added in part of a boot, a pant leg and some grass and leaves. I know it still needs shadows and darkening, but I'm stuck. Can you help me out? How does my fix look so far? First photo is SOOR.