Marina S

Hi Brian,

I have been experiencing some focusing issues with my gear lately. I shoot with Canon 5DM3. These examples were shot with different lenses 24-70mm and 70-200mm. I use back button focus and I have calibrated all of my lenses to my camera. My gear had its last service a few months ago. The focus falls somewhere else rather than where I want it so often I just don't know what to do anymore. I have a plug in for LR that shows where the focus point fell and in both images its supposedly right on the face/eyes yet the photo of the child has the hands in focus and the photo of the woman is not in focus at all.  Is it the camera, the lens, calibration? I have so many sessions coming up I wonder if I should buy a new camera body until I have this problem figured out. I need back up anyway...

I right click on the file in LR and choose edit in PS. I think i have actually figured it out. As i was doing manual lens corrections for the recent session in LR it changed the transparency of the files and thats why it was opening in PS as layer 0. I tried flattening the image in PS and it changed it back to background.

Hi Damien,

I currently do my raw processing in LR and then edit in PS CC. With my last session i haven't been able to run any actions because my background layer name is being changed to Layer 0. I have no idea what's causing it. 

Thanks! I might just leave it green then! i have about 15 images with him holding the damn ball!

Thanks Damien, can you let me know how you did it? Hue/sat?

Hi Damien! Can you please help with changing the color of the green ball to blue. I tried the hue/saturation layer but it gave a horrible yellow cast on the fingers no matter how careful i tried to mask around.

thank you!

Hi Damien,

I have a Spyder 4 Pro and i calibrated using your instructions. Now my first reminder after initial calibration came up. I'm slightly confused as to which option to choose - ReCAL or CheckCAL?

It took me a while to get everything right in the first place so i don't want to mess it up! 

How does this look? Is it passable? 

Ok, thanks. Will work on it now

Yeah, I know its not great. I have only started going through your layers and masks class but this client is pushing for her images so i need to show her something

Hi Damien, 

I would like to hide the blue line running on the top of her shorts and also match the color of the shorts to her dress. Same thing with the bra showing.

What is the best way to go about it?

 I have done the raw processing already.