Damien Symonds

May I see?

Oh, this is always tricky. You need to begin by cloning the people out of the darker photo. So that it's just a photo of scenery, you know? That removes a lot of the difficulty of "lining up".

Great! Emailed you.

Gee, don't keep me in suspense, @Shellylyn! How did it go?

All the channels are too damaged for any kind of "rescue" of those areas. It'll just be painstaking cloning, and/or swapping in areas of detail from another shot.

Great! So yes, go ahead and calibrate with a lower brightness setting. https://www.damiensymonds.net/calibration-instructions/

You don't need new prints. Of course your lab don't change they way they print just because one of their customers got a new calibrator. Please check the prints you already have.

Talk to me, @Shellylyn. In what way does your screen differ from your prints?

Oh yeah, I love that!!!

Ok, can you show me a screenshot of that image, with its layers panel visible?

I reckon just broadly mask the gradient layer out towards the right-hand side, so the gradient blends seamlessly with the existing backdrop.

levels, yes. But no gradient layer necessary.

Well, I still don't understand why you did anything. It looked fine before.

The last one, sorry.