Damien Symonds

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

Oh, don't worry about that. You'll get used to it very fast, and very soon you'll be wondering how you ever tolerated it so bright before.

Oh, fabulous.

Ah, I wouldn't worry about that too much.

That's great news. And have you followed the troubleshooting part of my instructions?

Absolutely right. Have you followed the troubleshooting part of my instructions?

So is the "blacker blacks" problem fixed now? Just the colour problem remains?

As long as you share links to them, it's absolutely fine. Make sure it's a link to the page they're on, not directly to the image. We need to give credit to the owner.

Did you try it, @EB Photography?

Correct.

Right. Well, it doesn't have to be dark, per se. Dim will do.

ALWAYS edit in your bright room. I can't stress this enough. It's so important. Yes, if the prints are brighter than your screen, calibrate again with a higher brightness target.

Of course!!

This is almost always a good thing. Screens are always too bright before you calibrate them. The important question is - does your screen match your prints now?

Have you calibrated since reinstalling the software?

Yes, very annoying. But now that you know about it, you can make sure you convert her files before you start.

Ok. Never mind, the brightness part isn't critical, as long as you have adjusted it beforehand to match your prints. Did you do so?

Remind me which Spyder you have?

Sorry, yes, try again now.

I'm so sorry. This is done using Channel Mixer, and I see from your profile that you have Photoshop Elements, which doesn't have Channel Mixer. However, there are workarounds possible, in some cases. I'll need to see more links to examples, though. That one is just darker, you know? It could be just as easily achieved with Levels. I wonder if this is the kind of thing you've seen? The first photo is a colour original, the second is a standard black-and-white conversion, the third is a red Channel Mixer conversion: Typically, red channel conversion tends to make blues (like water and sky) really dark.

Yes, I know. You don't need to pay full price to take it again, only the renewal price.

This is the crux of it. This is why you're both doing it right. If your presets don't adjust Exposure and White Balance, then yes, you need to do those things first. But if their presets DO adjust Exposure and White Balance, then it would make no sense for them to do those things first, because the Preset would just override them afterwards. So of course they must apply the presets first, then tweak the Exposure and WB afterwards.

I'm sorry, I can't discuss class matters here. https://www.damiensymonds.net/trainingialm-signup.html

At first glance, the two photos you've chosen do look like good donors for each other. The trouble is, you can't swap then enlarge - the swapped bit gets blurry. So you can swap from the first to second photo, but not from second to first. The only way you could swap from 2nd to 1st is if you were prepared to add fake background blur to the whole photo afterwards, to disguise the issue, you know?