Cindy Young

The gentleman in this photo asks me to edit photos for him from time to time.  He sent me the RAW image (12+ MB).  After my levels work, the PSD file was 89+ MB.  When I flatten it, it is right at 6MB.  He requests that I "add size to the image" because he is going to crop it.  Is there a way to add size to an image?

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Color Munki Display

I am trying to recalibrate my monitor, but want to see if there are new software downloads.  I have gone to the X-Rite site, but I cannot find the software downloads.  Could you/someone point me in the right direction?

OK, thank you--will work on the fountain patiently. So I should not go higher than 70% opacity on the sky?   I do not have any sunset skies in my repertoire (is that the right word?).  Unfortunately, the clouds all dissipated before the sun set.

OK, I lowered the opacity of the sky to 70%.  Still too strong?  The orange around the trees seems too strong.

Is there an easy way to mask the sunset replacement off of the spraying water from the fountain?  When I get outside the water with my masking and try to correct, the sky seems to be a different color.

OK, just wondered about the orange around and in the trees.  Will replace with another sunset photo.

Yes, I used that to replace the sky in another of the photos in this series.  Are you saying that that is my best choice? I'm not sure about using an all white fill layer if the sky isn't completely blown out.  Does this sky look blown-out enough?

The mom in this photo asked if I could put a "good sky -- perhaps a sunset" behind them.  The sun was setting behind them, but there were no clouds in the sky.  I do have a sunset replacement sky I took a couple of days ago but also no clouds.  Would it be better/easier to replace the sky or underexpose and put that image on top of the exposed image and mask off of the people?

Thanks, Brian.  I have a couple of sessions to edit for clients, then I will upgrade and see what people have been complaining about!

Just double checking.  I need to work with some ORF images and my version of Camera Raw/Bridge doesn't support them.  I cannot download Adobe DNG Converter until I update my OS to OS X 10.9 or later. I am currently on OS X 10.8.5.  Is there some other way to be able to work with these Olympus RAW images?

Well, I lowered the Scale % from 73 to 63 and that seems to have done the trick.  

Uhhh, not sure I can do that.

"Tweak" as in using the stops?

I may not have gotten my Scale % low enough to completely cover the bar in the photo.  Do I re-do?

I MAY be ready for the next step.

What about the bright color behind that hair on the right?  

What about the little bit to the right and left?

No, I didn't really know where to sample.  I will re-do.  I "thought" the whole ceiling would match the spot where the backdrop started.  

Even after I re-edited, and did the eyedropper thing after masking everything except the ceiling, the ceiling does not match the light wall at the rest of the hair.  So frustrating for me and a million times more frustrating for you, I'm sure!

But it doesn't.  I will start over from my SOOR.

1) clicked on layer icon   2) double clicked on white eyedropper   3) selected a color near baby's head   4)OK>No   5) clicked on darker part of backdrop   6) selected mask

The tutorial says to start masking.  If I mask on the ceiling with the white brush, little to nothing happens.  If I mask with the black brush, it darkens the area.

OK, I have the PSD in front of me, both mine and yours.  I don't have a clue as to what to do with *that* levels layer.