Damien Symonds

Hi Brian, do you have any advice about reliable free email providers with POP3 capability? This is for my personal emails, nothing to do with business. For the longest time I've used my ISP for my email address, but we might be switching soon, so I'd need to transition away from it. I guess what I'm asking ... is there anything better than Gmail, or is Gmail where it's at?

@Cindy Young, PLEASE post some photos in class!

@Teresa, did you browse the site before posting, as I suggested? There are LOTS of threads with the same title as yours. https://ask.damiensymonds.net/forum/18-the-windows-pc-hardware-forum/

@calliechinen, PLEASE start posting photos in the Raw Class!

@paul hendrick, where did you go?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/10/using-photoshops-gradient-layer.html

Did you have a chance to read it, @paul hendrick? It doesn't take very long.

Hi @paul hendrick, thanks for posting. Before we get to the nuts and bolts of your question, can you have a quick read-through of this micro-class to see if we're on a similar wavelength about InDesign workflow?

Well, matching the edges is done by lowering the opacity of the layer. The same way you'd do it for a head swap.

Ok, cool. Well, as you can probably tell, I just used the cuff from the other photo, and swapped it in.

So I'm thinking it'll have to look like this?

Don't worry, you'll learn that soon. Keep the raw class posts coming, please.

No, just post them here as usual.

The second one, though, has a complete smooth curve of the suit cuff to work with (whereas in the first one it's partially obscured by the shirt). We might be able to work with that. Can you do the raw processing then post those two snippets again?

Oh gosh, this is unfortunate, isn't it? May I see the whole photo, or at least more of the guy, for context?

Download my PSD

I'd assumed you'd go for something more like this ... ... but as you can see, the possibilities are almost literally infinite.

Ah, this is pretty standard Gradient Map stuff. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/02/powerful-gradient-map-techniques.html

You'll learn about that in the Channel Mixer Class, but that's a little way down the road.

No problem. PLEASE give me a month to change your life: https://www.damiensymonds.net/bridge-30-day-challenge

It's impossible, sorry. Everyone's phones and computers are different. All you can do is work safely in sRGB and trust to the naiveté of the public.

Oh yeah, sorry, I should have warned you about that. Unfortunately, it's very common that the screens won't look exactly the same, even though you calibrated them with the same calibrator. Which screen is a better match for your prints? Were you following my calibration directions here?

Yep, that looks right.

How did you go, @cathm?

Are you there, @Melissalile?