Damien Symonds

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.

Gee, it's pretty haloey around her. But still, you might get away with it.

Have you tried Content Aware Fill? Sometimes it's good. (And sometimes not.)

I don't understand. Why do you need to change the background at all?

Sure! You'll need to give me the photo without your first gradient layer.

I'm fairly certain, yes.

Maybe big radial gradients?

It'll be no worse than any of the other photos on the page, if that's any consolation.

Oh gee. I'm worried too But I don't see what else you can do.

Thanks for posting. This is a very dangerous area. Please read this: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/05/please-be-wary-of-cmyk.html You MUST find out the correct profile to use.

Hi @dptolemy, I've just written to Kim.

Seems nice and clean to me.

Done.

Of course.