Damien Symonds

8GB of RAM is the bare minimum to run Photoshop properly. Make sure you don't have too many other programs open at the same time, and don't have more than one photo open in Photoshop at a time. Did you mean TB, not GB? Yes you bloody are. Shut down EVERY DAY. This is serious. Run CleanMyMac right away, and every month hereafter. All of these factors combined definitely explain your lagging healing tools.

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Looks very flattering. I like how you haven't overdone it. Lots of people fall into the trap of trying to remove wrinkles too much, and the outcome is weirdly too perfect. This is nice.

Oh! Good point. Ok, do one layer for the pimples and stuff. Then once that is done, duplicate that layer and do the wrinkles.

I urge you to do all of it on just one copy of the Background layer. Make him "perfect" on that layer (no wrinkles at all), then lower its opacity later.

Is this the method you tried? https://www.damiensymonds.net/patch-tool-for-eye-bags.html

Ok, now we've fixed that, can you tell me what wrinkles you were trying to repair? Is it the under-eye ones?

Oh, this isn't right. Can you post this photo in the Raw Class please?

Ok, show me the photo with the wrinkles.

You can use the Alt key in LR too. It just doesn't work

Histogram, yes. Clipping, no. Very sadly. Correct.

If it makes you feel better, then yes, go ahead and get some new test prints. But I assure you, it won't make a shred of difference. If your screen now finally matches the prints you already have, then I assure you your calibration is correct, and you may proceed to edit with confidence.

It's difficult to say, exactly. As far as I know they represent Melissa RGB, which is the colloquial name of the colour space that Lightroom uses for its internal calculations. It's a huge space similar to ProPhoto RGB. Therefore, Lightroom accurately shows clipping in whites (where detail is blown out completely white) but not accurately for colours.

@Gabriela, where did you go?

It looks like you're not viewing in filename order?

Hey @Gabriela, what's up? What were you trying to repair with the Healing Tool?

You assume incorrectly. Any prints you already have are absolutely fine, as long as they're from your usual pro lab.

Did you get one, @sla453?

How did you go, @SRubyor?

These are easily passes. This one I'm nervous about.

Easily good enough. In fact, it's hard to imagine it being any better.

No. Elements is incredibly powerful, and skilled editors can make incredible images with it. Sadly, many beginners choose Photoshop over Elements because they think a more expensive program will make them better editors. Of course this is not true.

I haven't heard of this either, sorry.

Yes, the Advanced Levels Class.

Looks great. Did you find this worked ok? That you could just brush loosely over the spikes?