Jayce

Damien, let me start with how much I miss seeing you in my Facebook feed everyday! You are a wonderful teacher! My question is that I am running Lightroom 5.7.1 and my adjustmet brush is only brightening where I apply on the image and nothing else. I have reset and tried to increase shadow or exposure and it just lightens. Let me know if you have any ideas. Thank you.

You are a true genius and can feel tears in my eyes. Thank you for your help on this, your website, and all you teach us. Thank you!!

Damien, Rookie editor here. I had a wonderful senior girl ask to do the following pose while I had my narrow backdrop on. I have followed the extending background instructions you posted, but I feel I am losing shadows and making her look like she can hover. I tried hopelessly to add a gradient adjustment layer. I will attach the adjusted original. I use PSE and this image was shot as a jpeg (I forgot to switch my camera over after) shooting video). Sincerely, Hopeless Editor