Damien Symonds

Oh no, that's dreadful news!

@Tarria?

No, dragging won't work because they won't be the right size. You'll need to create them on your own file. The "Dodge and burn" layer, in case you're not familiar with it, is this: https://www.damiensymonds.net/simple-dodge-and-burn-tutorial.html Note how all the layers are clipped to the first one (the Channel Mixer one).

Reproduce them, yes.

Yep, I see you there! You took the class in roughly 2014. That's great. It means you don't need to pay full price to take it again, only the renewal price ($46 for another year). https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/8494-raw-signup-1/

Hi @Sp2019, yes, Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. https://www.damiensymonds.net/what2buy_soft.html

No, sorry, there's no single method for this. It might be D&B, or liquify, or cloning, or fabric extension, or any combination of those. I need to see the photo.

@Benjamin Anderson, PLEASE post some photos in the Raw Class for me.

@Mummaducka, PLEASE post some photos in class. Don't let your memberships waste away.

You'll need to know, and you'll need to write it down somewhere so you remember it for each monthly recalibration, you know? I fear not But try it. No they don't. The prints are what they are. They are your benchmark. What you mean is that the screen looks slightly cooler than the prints. On that basis, go to the "Troubleshooting" part of my calibration instructions and follow what to do when the screen is a bit too cool.

What target did you end up using for the brightness? 80? All the prints? Or only the black-and-whites?

What???? Because PDF files have vectors, of course.

Don't leave me hanging, @seraphim!

I'm so sorry, I don't know.

For now (the next couple of months at least) I don't want you to worry about all your old photos. They can stay in Aperture. What we must concentrate on at the moment are the new photos you shoot. Establish your new Bridge workflow with those. For heaven's sake stop saving photos in folders on your desktop! That's really bad for Macs. Please?

Terrific. I've been googling this like crazy, and I can't find out where on your hard drive Aperture has put your photos. This is so damn frustrating. Can you do this for me?

Great. And have you installed Bridge too?

Gee, it's about a million years since I used Aperture, so my memory is more or less nil. Do you have a version of Photoshop on your computer?

Whoa, no, the noise layer mustn't be separate, and it mustn't be masked separately. It must be clipped to the gradient layer, and have an all-white mask. And yes, the mask on your Gradient layer is too distinct. Towards the top it should fan out a little more softly.

May I see a screenshot so I can see your layers?

How did you go with the fixes, @StudioPopJess?

What have you got to show me, @seraphim?

How did you go, @Brandicm?

@StudioPopJess?

Needless to day, you can add more colour markers if you need to, and you can move the position of any of the colour markers.