Damien Symonds

The red of Santa's suit is ok?

Is the Christmas one printed exactly the same way as the others? Same lab, same paper?

Oh gee, is that all you got? There's no variety there. There are a heap of colour of the spectrum that aren't represented.

What? No, upload the same digital files that you sent to the lab. Unless you have solar-powered internet, the brightness of your room has nothing to do with it.

From the posting guidelines:

Excellent.

Hi Cathy, thanks for reporting in. Can you post the photos here for me to see? Upload the exact jpeg files that you sent to the lab.

I reckon the hard dark rim of shadow around it looks odd.

Sorry, I don't know of a way either. The only way I'm aware of is to select them all and temporarily add them to a Collection. Then the stars filter will be accurate for that set.

Your brush tool is on "Difference" mode in the Options Bar.

I don't have any shortcuts for this, sorry. It'll have to be very careful cloning.

There isn't a link for that, sorry. Every photo is different. May I see yours?

Oh, Lara uses Plex!

Fair enough. PLEASE start posting some photos in class.

It certainly does add complications, but lots of people do it.

Have they arrived yet?

What did you decide in the end, @Melissalile?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/tut_noise.html

This looks really excellent, well done. Did you remember to add the noise layer to the gradients?

@Jamie Brown, I can't help checking in to find out if you've been receiving compliments about this job?

Whatever happened with this job, @abfriesen?

That and a heck of a lot of other stuff. When I sent you that email prompting you to take the Layers & Masks Class before embarking on Levels and you said "It's ok, I know the basics" you were rather mistaken, I fear. It's not too late.

No, I just used the brush and the Shift Key.

Gosh, that's such a good question. I suspect it works best for higher-key photos (that is, where more than half of the photo is bright-ish). I also think it wouldn't work so well for a blonde subject. I think it might work really well for some scenery shots. But I'm guessing, honestly.

Have you tried this method on any other photos, @Eran?