Damien Symonds

If you fully commit yourself to it, you can probably knock it over in 3 or 4 days. But must people take much longer than that.

Time is irrelevant. If this is how you process raw files, you NEED to take the class. Now.

Is it a raw file?

For the "high resolution" ones, don't resize at all. Send every pixel your camera took. For the "web resolution" ones, yes, resize to 2048px.

Oh gee, that's SUCH a good question, and one to which there's no precise answer, I'm afraid. These will be whatever your camera took. How many megapixels is your camera? I reckon Facebook size (2048px on the long edge) would be fine for this.

It looks too dark as well. But the background edit looks fine.

Still looks awfully dark.

I had just been trying it too: https://max.mailbigfile.com/c87c6df4269bbe6f610f4550a555ea4b/listFiles.php Why are you using the dark version of the photo again?

I cannot understand why ANYONE uses beta. It's nothing but trouble.

Cool. I can't tell why sampling isn't working, sorry. Everything looks the way it should.

Is there any reason why the scale is 136%?

Hex codes, are you nuts? Just use the RGB numbers that the info panel tells you.

Can you manually make it grey, though? Or another colour?

How did you go?

Sorry @dain it's too old, I don't have it any more.

Well ... you hadn't done so in the screenshot you showed me.

Are you remembering to click on the little colour swatch below the gradient before sampling grey?

May I see a screenshot?

Yes, of course you must only brush in one direction. From background towards the people.

This method: https://www.damiensymonds.net/preventing-banding-in-backdrops/ https://max.mailbigfile.com/c74bce897a200b06d35494ceda44e668/listFiles.php

Are you also wanting to smooth the wrinkled flooring?

I don't, sorry. I just kinda brushed downwards until it smoothed out. If you shift-click on the mask thumbnail on the layer in the layers panel, you'll see what I mean.

I used the Mixer Brush tool. https://max.mailbigfile.com/5f7b2bcdd33d2b07c07808c5f5c908ed/listFiles.php

Is this what you had in mind?

How bizarre. How are you saving the jpeg? I mean, are you using "Save As", or "Save for web", or "Export" or whatever? Never mind, I see it.