Damien Symonds

29 minutes ago, pattyfhorne said:

Also, the photos look really "touched up" on the faces when I remove noise until I can't see it.  Is there a way to dial that back without having noise?

Please let's discuss this in class, on a photo-by-photo basis.

28 minutes ago, pattyfhorne said:

I have two questions for you.  I bought a calibrator.  No wonder you told me so many of my photos were dark.  My monitor was at over 560 and I had to lower it to 120 "ish".

No, 120 is too bright.  Please follow my exact calibration directions here.

Yes.

You can get away with it, but it won't be as accurate as it should be.

Different watermarks will require completely different actions, yes.

I'm sure I referenced it in the epilogue module of the Bridge Class.

Let's start over. May I see your SOOR, straightened?

9 hours ago, shalea said:

my editing then saved it to my computer as a jpeg and then opened pic to just "crop and straighten it that way"

You NEVER open a jpeg into Photoshop.  Ever.

You open the raw file into Photoshop, then you do the straightening as the VERY first step.

Before you've even saved it as a PSD.

Then why the heck are you saving as a jpeg?????

Good.

Use a 100% brush.

No, channel mixer is taught in the channel mixer class of course, not levels.

Let's not go any further with this until you've taken the Bridge Class.  Your workflow is clearly an awful awful mess.

First, add a Channel Mixer adjustment layer.  Go to "Output Channel: Blue" and change the numbers from 0, 0, +100, 0 to 0, +100, 0, -7.  (Make sure you get the order exactly right).  Then mask to the area inside the glasses.

Then add a new blank layer above that.  Choose your Clone Tool and make sure it's set to "Sample: Current & Below" in the Options Bar.  Carefully clone over the remaining problem areas.

Possible, yes.  But not easy.  Her arm in her hair will be the trickiest part.

Go ahead and do your raw processing first, then we'll discuss.

12 minutes ago, shalea said:

This one is harder because of the big rocks in the background.

Do you have any other photos from this same set, that would provide the missing background detail?

9 minutes ago, shalea said:

This one will be dead easy.  After doing your raw processing, the first step in Photoshop is the straightening.

Then use this method to remove the other girl.

Phew!

Crikey!

Gee, I don't know!

What about if try rearranging the windows?  https://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/07/photoshops-arrange-functions.html

How weird!  Have you also deleted that profile from the bowels of your system?  Should be here: C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color

The 8GB of RAM is definitely going to be a problem.  Modern programs need more than that to run smoothly.

But for now, you should definitely run CMM right away.

Hi @Vivek Nayyar, could you do this for me?  https://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2014/06/the-wide-gamut-myth.html

You're right, the colour space is definitely the problem, but neither of those are right.  You must only work in sRGB.

Please ditch stupid Lightroom.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/bridge-30-day-challenge/

Yep.  Time to buy new.