Stacey Sedgman

HI Damien,

I recently got photoshop CC however when I use bridge to open a raw image its using the old version of acr from my photoshop cs5.5 rather than the new version of acr that comes with photoshop CC. How can I change that preference?

Re-saturated arm

Here we go. HUe/Sat layer and desaturated the couple.

Best way to make it better than a pass?

Does this work? No amount of raw fixes the crappy background of the kiss so I took a pic from another day and composited. Does it work?

Subtle?

Yes definitely familiar I'll have a go now.

Hi Damien,

What would be the best way to lessen the appearance of a double chin here? 

Still too strong?

I'll just leave it bright

yup plausible....baby brain. Here are the two images SOOR.

Hi Damien, 

Is this feasible?

I figured out the healing tool. For some stupid reason create texture was selected instead of content aware so sorry. As for the lasso tool its working now. I have no idea what is going on there. I only had a duplicate layer of the original open and hadn't done anything else yet. If it does it again I'll repost in here. Thanks Damien,

Hi Damien,

My healing brush tool is showing the weird texture below instead of fixing the problem and now apparently my magnetic lasso tool is incapable of finding edges. I've rebooted but still getting the same problem. 

Is this feasible?  The sky was sooooo blah and the bride desparately wants a beautiful pink sunset.

Would something like this work? Bit darker but not so green. The photos above are links so hopefully doing this right?

Hi Damien,

I'm interested in Julia's backgrounds and how she gets this look. I imagine a certain amount in camera but they're almost matte compared to the subject if thats the right term ? Is this a feasible photo to try and learn this look with or not enough DOF?

18 minutes ago, Stacey Sedgman said:

I can see the white balloon top right Christina but where else? 

I cut them out with the magnetic lasso, feathered and smoothed and cloned the background, Could that be what you mean?

I can see the white balloon top right Christina but where else? 

Hi Damien,

I've added a  "lightscaping" overlay to this in an effort to make it more punchy. File - place and then changed it to overlay, masked off baby. The balloons are also composite as the wind was terrible! Does it look overbaked? 

haha its not visible at 100%. Point taken.

Does this work?

Ok it won't print like that though? I guess what I meant is it looks pixely compared to everthing else.