Damien Symonds

I don't think there's any question that the photo looks better without that dark patch. That masking, tho ....

You're welcome to leave that layer off, if you are patient enough to do the really careful masking needed.

May I see the photo now?

Longer, even? Like, partway down his shin?

Yep.

Oh, sorry, no, I literally just meant the masking. Blend it more gradually downwards.

It should blend mode a bit more gradually, I think?

I would say so, yes. Now it's just a matter of blending into the floor, yes?

That's right.

Yep! It'll still need some gentle masking around the tree, but much less arduous now.

Sometimes I find I have to take the scale down really small - like 20% or something - so I can get the gradient centred exactly where I want it. Then take the scale back up again.

That might be as close as you'll get, eh? Looks like the centre of it needs to be moved down a bit.

The background behind the lower left part of the tree is still darker than the gradient, isn't it?

Gradient 3 must need to be darker. And have you moved it across so it's centred on that shadow area on the left?

Not SOOC, no. I said in the article: So go ahead and do your raw processing, then post a 100% crop from the SOOR.

Yeah, that's nowhere near enough. Ten times that would barely be enough, in fact. You have to get some files off there onto your backup drives.

Might be time to start masking now, and see how it comes up?

Yes, it seems ok from here.

Yeah, the carpet will be masking, I think.

You'll probably need to take the Scale above 100%, I figure?

Right.

What did you end up doing with this?

Don't get confused by the term "Scratch Disk". It's not some mysterious extra hard drive hidden on your computer. It simply refers to the amount of free space on your hard drive; and it sounds very much like you don't have enough free space.

Please answer my question. How much free space have you cleared off your internal hard drive?

Please stop posting new threads about the same old issues. Have you cleared some space off your hard drive yet? How much space is free now?