Damien Symonds

How is this?

If she needs Frequency Separation or some other kind of smoothing, then yes, do it first.

How's your screen going, @Elizabeth G?

Hi @Phoebe, did you get my email yesterday afternoon?

It will add noise if you use a very low radius, yes. Your radius needed to be higher.

Nope, that's all good too. I'm stumped, I'm so sorry.

Ok, that all looks fine. I'm running out of ideas. What about in the "Refine Edge" window (button in Options Bar)? Anything fishy there?

Ok, I need you to go to Edit>Preferences>Performance, and show me a screenshot of that screen.

Also, could you do this for me?

Anything further to report, @Jamie Brown?

Have you finished reading the class, @dwalker_23?

How did you go with this, @Ella Heath?

Are you still there, @Anthony Glick?

They must be back at school by now, @Stacey Sedgman?

Are you still there, @Zisi Kirzner?

Are you still there, @MacMama80?

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

Download PSD

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?