Damien Symonds

Positive indeed! Wonderful news.

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

Oh yeah, your overall editing is awful. PLEASE don't waste any more time - get stuck into the Raw Class.

Do that BELOW your sky layer, by the way.

Ok, I don't think the haze on the heads is the fault of your sky layer. It was there in the original photo. There's nothing to it, just add a Levels adjustment layer and pull the black slider in to about 100. Then invert the mask, and gently paint on the hazy areas with a 10% brush.

@Haylee_QDD?

PLEASE hurry up and take the Layers & Masks Class. You're making everything WAY too hard for yourself by denying yourself that knowledge.

Too late.

No, the SELECTION! With the lasso tool! Look where my marching ants are: https://www.damiensymonds.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/white03.jpg And look where yours are.

Well duh, you selected the lady instead of the background!!

Of course.

After you've made the selection, can you pause and show me a screenshot? This is REALLY fundamental stuff. PLEASE hurry up and take the Layers & Masks Class.

Lol, yeah, that'd do it!

@SWhit, here's one.

He'll be very flattered, well done. You've given the plane a bit of a tummy bulge, but I don't think anyone will notice.

This fix involves liquify, and is the same as this method. First select the whole hair area and put it on its own layer, then put a blank cloning layer below that. Clone the bricks in far enough to cover all the hair that will be shrunk: Return to the top layer and enter Liquify. Mask his face and the base of his hair, so that it doesn't get moved by the liquifying: Using a big brush with the Forward Warp Tool, gently nudge the hair in. Of course it will make the wall all bendy, but that doesn't matter: When you've finished liquifying press OK to return to Photoshop, where your file will look like this: Then add a mask to the liquified layer and mask out the bendy wall:

Can you check on this for me? Great news.

Yes, I agree.

Whoa! No, not a duplicate layer! NEVER a duplicate layer. Just add a proper D&B layer on top. https://www.damiensymonds.net/simple-dodge-and-burn-tutorial.html

You don't. You uninstall Lightroom, you don't need it any more. Make sure you have this turned on before removing it.

Still too much of a curve there, I think.

Sorry, I can't see the moire here.

For the moire: R 0, +100, 0, -4 But don't do that before the liquifying, of course. When doing the liquifying, DON'T FORGET the line of buttons on the middle of his tummy. That will have be to straightened. That's the most important part. Of course, you would also tuck in the sides a bit. Once you've done that liquifying, show me.

@diamante67?

@Adinah?