Damien Symonds

So sorry about the delay. Download PSD

Can you elaborate on your concerns about her hair? How is it different to the hair on the sample one you provided?

Is this anywhere close?

Come on, let's keep it legal. You can't just rip off somebody else's photo to use for your work.

Can you provide links to the page that the images are on, not to the images themselves, so that their owners get proper credit and traffic.

Are you still there, @Whiskers and Tails?

You have done a STAGGERINGLY good job, well done. If you could just fine a suitably-angled ear to borrow from another photo, this would be perfectly fine (for what it is).

How is this?

I'm worried about your white balance on this one. How sure are you of its accuracy?

There's really not much needed to make your photo into the other photo. Just some more saturation for the background, and less for the foreground. Download PSD Of course it's more effective on Natalie's photo, because she has some other colours (such as the blue fence) to work with. So please feel free to post some more photos of your own, with perhaps a bit more detail.

Yes, that's good now. Please don't let that happen again. I can't tell you how bad it is.

Whoa. Danger! Danger! We'll get to the editing, I promise. But first we have to fix a CATASTROPHIC problem with your file. Please follow this troubleshooter all the way to its conclusion, then post your photo again.

Please let me help. Did you find some examples?

Control Panel > Autoplay I think, anyway.

Download PSD I hope this is sufficient.

Yep, I think we should be able to manage this easily enough. Of course we would never do Photoshop work before the raw processing is done, so go ahead and do your raw editing, then post the photo again.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/importing-video

I'm going to tag @Brian to step in for the camera part of the discussion.

Please stop trying to upload through Bridge. Just put the card in your computer, open the folder (go to "My computer" if the folder doesn't open automatically) then copy the files safely to the correct folder on your hard drive. Don't overcomplicate life.

Yes. a raf file is a Fuji raw file. That's exactly right. Sounds like you had the Fuji camera set to Raw+Jpeg? You'd better check its settings.

Hi Sue, when you put your card into the computer, does it open up as it should? I mean, the window opens up so you can see all your files on the card?

Did you check the Options Bar for your Marquee Tool? It looks like it might have a feather set.

Hi Stacey, may I see a screenshot showing the whole screen? Well, at least the layers panel. Oh, also, make sure you zoom in to 100% to see if the line is really there. Sometimes this occurs as a trick of zoom.

The nature of your question indicates that you didn't use the Shape Tool to make vector clipping masks the way you should have? https://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/12/simple-clipping-mask-and-storyboard.html If you had done so, you'd simply Ctrl T the shape layer and change its size/shape to your heart's content.

Hi Melissa, may I see a 100% crop? https://www.damiensymonds.net/2013/09/grabbing-700x700px-100-crop.html