Kerry Bebeau

Even just for the coding my son will be using this for? 

Can you give me your thoughts on this one? 

https://www.staples.com/lenovo-flex-5-14iil05-81x1-14-notebook-intel-i7-16gb-memory-512gb-ssd-windows-10-81x1002sus/product_24435792

Holy cow, I guess so. I got my amazing laptop for editing a couple of years ago for a good deal, and a couple hundred dollars cheaper than what I would be looking at for my son's. Guess he'll be using the school provided chromebook if they have to go virtual, until prices come back down some.

Thank you!

We're going to be looking into getting our son a laptop, primarily because the hand-me-down one he is using is on its last legs and he will likely need to do some virtual learning this school year.

Major uses will be school work and zoom/Google classroom meetings. But he also likes to code with scratch (basic games and animation using code blocks, if you're not familiar), and may want to branch out as he learns more.

What minimum requirements should I be looking for?

Thanks!

It's the height of my busy season now, so I'm sure I will be posting more soon. I'm usually pretty dead January through June but have a bunch of sessions ready to edit now. I'll probably join as soon as I'm able. Thanks.

Thank you so much, Damien. My nephew is finally graduating (2 years late) after a lot of growing up and hard work. He allowed me to do "senior" photos as a surprise for his mom, who I'm sure will be happy to not have his sweaty pits hanging in her living room on a 16x24.  I'll be sending a beer your way soon.

Here is the second one and the full photo. 

Okay, I think I may have figured things out. How did I do on the first side?

Okay, usually I can follow your suggestions and tutorials with no issues and get a great result. This one has me stumped. So when I follow the method you suggest in the link, am I clicking on the dropper tool and inputting the RGB values in the color palette popup? Or am I inputting them in the levels box using the RGB dropdown on the white slider area like you had me do when I was fixing transitions glasses? Because it seems that no matter what I try I'm not getting a good result.

What is the best way to remove the sweat marks on the underarms here?  Thanks!

Thanks so much for your help!

Crap. lol. Ok.

Of course, here you go. Thanks.

I have another photo where he is not wearing his glasses, so I can swap them out if needed, but if I can just make an adjustment to this photo to lighten his lenses I think I would like the results better.  Thanks for any help you can give!