Damien Symonds

The focus is fantastic, but yes, much too noisy.

What? No, the Ask Damien one. https://www.facebook.com/groups/195567190503489/

As I said, I don't know if any of the suggestions have been successful. You'll have to try them for yourself.

This is being vigorously discussed in AD on Facebook. Lots of suggestions, not sure if any of them have been proven successful yet. Go and check them out. Why don't you like the new layout?

Before you do that, though, try resetting Photoshop and Bridge's preferences.

Yes, absolutely.

Maybe your monitor profile has gone bad? Perhaps you should recalibrate?

Nice.

Good!

You've done a very good job here, well done. Yes I can. This means that even though you thought you were painting with black on the mask, it wasn't quite black. It must have been dark grey.

May I see the original photo to compare?

No, the Step 3 is the same, no matter which Step 2 you did.

Hi @Gabriela, I've moved your comment into a thread of its own so we don't clog up the other thread. You can't skip Step 2. You have to do it, or the alternate one.

With the "Fx" button at the bottom of the Layers panel.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/traininglevels1-signup.html

The SpyderTune feature needs direct access to the graphics card, I figure. So yeah, it sounds like the connection is interrupted when going through the Startech device, eh?

Hi @RAGjr, how much troubleshooting have you done? If you connect one of the Acers direct to the dock where the Philips is presently plugged in, do you then have SpyderTune control?

Because that particular photo doesn't have floor shadows, you could do it with a plain solid colour layer instead of levels.

There's just a little light patch on the right-hand side I can see, where the front leg meets the back leg.

Yes. You need to read my linked instructions very carefully.

First, make a marquee selection across the top of the image, then add a Solid Color on that area, with the colour you showed me. Then add a Levels layer below that Solid Color layer, and use the white eyedropper to turn the white (and the dog!) into teal. Then mask around the dog carefully. Then turn off or delete the Solid Color layer.

I urge you to avoid transparency if possible. It's hard to do, and impossible to do well. Try to ask them for the exact colour they need, then you and I will work together to change the background to that colour.

There are several ways, yes. Can you tell me a bit more about the job? For what purpose do they need to have transparent backgrounds?

Yeah

You didn't try the Warp that I showed you?