black_roses426

Yes, that's where the banding is.  I guess I was just confused about how replace whole the background without interfering with the shadows.  I'll figure it out when I dive into your tutorial head first tomorrow.  Thank you so much for the help! 

Will it be possible to preserve the shaddows cast by the eggs and basket if I replace the background though? 

Sent.

Also, the bands appear more prominently in this image in Chrome and file explorer than they do in LR/PS... does this mean I have a color space issue?  I made sure throughout the process everything was saved or converted to SRGB and the images printed perfect and matched exactly with my monitor. 

I so stupidly edited an image in Lightroom using a radial filter (yes, I know, I'm an idiot for using LR!)

The image looked beautiful on the screen.  Sent it off to print an 8x10 at Bay Photo, and I received it back and there is banding where I used the radial filter to lighten the background while keeping the subject the same exposure.  I know 100 things I would do different next time (mostly, uninstalling Lightroom), so my question is, is there anyway to fix this without starting the entire editing process over?  Since this image is part of a set and the rest are already printed, I would hate to start over and make guesses about what edits I did to them and have it look slightly different than the rest when printed.

FYI, I did the same thing to the other images, but the banding isn't showing up much on them since this is the only print that was ordered at 8x10.  

Does anyone else use both Damien's workflow advice and Mastin Labs film emulation presets?  If so, what is your workflow?  

I am trying to re-structure my workflow.  Most skilled editors who use Mastin Labs presets say that they should be used prior to making other global adjustments.  How does this fit in with Damien's principles?  He advises to add artistic touches at the end, but Mastin presets aren't really designed to work that way.  I want to avoid Lightroom as much as possible or at least avoid "ending" there so I don't run into issues with shadow clipping lies.