Damien Symonds

May I see the whole screenshot? So I can see your layers panel and options bar and stuff as well?

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It's definitely possible. But it would take hours and hours.

This took me AGES to do just one, AND it's the easiest one, AND it's not very good.

I'm so sorry mate, I don't have any "tricks" here. It would just need to be incredibly painstaking painting.

Oh boy, that's not going to be easy. May I see 100% crops of a couple of the gaps?

Hi @Zisi Kirzner, this sure does sound weird. You have an iMac, is that correct? Which Spyder do you have? Which print lab do you use?

Good. Now, for the clouds ... go back to your Background layer and duplicate it. Immediately desaturate it (Ctrl Shift U). Then change its blend mode to "Overlay". Then go to Filter>Other>High Pass. Start with the slider at minimum, and slowly take it up, and find a spot you like.

Yes, that's right. And really, that's much too tiny. On all modern screens, that'll be weirdly small. It'll make people think there's a problem with your files, you know? Can you tell me a bit more about your situation? For what purpose are you saving these files?

No, this is a misunderstanding. The file size in KB is irrelevant. Only the pixel dimensions matter. What pixel dimensions are you preparing the files at?

Oh, just add a Solid Color layer of the colour you want, as vivid as you can make it (eg vivid purple) and put it on Color blend mode. Then just paint it on at very low opacity where you want it. Likewise, a layer for cyan/green.

Can you identify which layer removed the sunset colour?

It seems a bit too light in the centre area?

Regarding the sizing, just use your Crop Tool as normal. Set it to 12" x 12" in the Options bar, with the Resolution at 300ppi. Then crop.

No, the original isn't noisy at all. What you're seeing is jpeg damage (of course)

Well, with a mammoth amount of patience you could probably clone it out. But you'd need to find suitable eyelashes from another photo.

I'm on my phone at the moment. Are you saying that the snapseed edit has made things grainy and poor quality? The original quality was quite good.

It's done, mate.

Didn't you say you want to print it at 12" square?

Excellent!

Excellent! And is the snapseed version still 3024 wide?

Hey, that's pretty good quality, isn't it? And what are its pixel dimensions?

Tiffs are fine too, but they're just damned inconvenient. Why scroll all the way down to "T" in the file format list when Adobe defaults to PSD every time? Save your time.

Doesn't matter. Optimized and Progressive are unreliable, you can't be certain that every program will view them properly. Standard is the only one to use, ever. Size is irrelevant. No no no no no no no no no no no no no. ONLY save your master files as PSD, and ONLY use Bridge to view your files. After the job is printed, paid and put to bed, you can convert your PSDs to jpegs for archiving. But while the job is live, you MUST save PSDs.

Brian will have better wisdom than me. But here's my 2 cents ... even if you get two screens exactly the same, it's very likely that they won't show exactly the same colour, even after calibration. You'll find that one calibrated better than the other. So that one would be your editing screen, and the other one would be your secondary screen, for emails and such. So because of that, I've never thought it to be entirely necessary to have two matching screens. However, I'm aware of the attraction of having two matching screens sitting on your desk - it sure does look smart And strictly speaking, the two monitors don't even need to be the same size. (Mine certainly aren't.) But again - it looks nice if they do