Damien Symonds

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?

Yes, this doesn't look too severe. We can certainly fix it. Go ahead and do your raw processing (don't forget to fix the colour space) then post the photo again, and we'll discuss the flare fix.

When you hit the F key a few times, did you see the Photoshop interface change each time?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html

@Glynda horsfall?

You'll find this VERY useful: https://www.damiensymonds.net/wonderful-scanner-app-windows.html

No, they'll be in tabs across the top. Try it and you'll see. Yes, but that's not the most efficient way to do so. We can work slicker than that. Can you tell me what the action does?

No, here, on this page! Scroll up to the top, see the "askquestions" button?