Damien Symonds

Great. And what is the resolution of yours? 1920x1080 like mine, or something else? (I have an ASUS ROG too, by the way, and I want to assure you you've chosen well. It's a great computer.)

Thanks. When you right-click on your desktop and choose "Display Settings", can you confirm that both of these settings are on "Recommended"? (The numbers won't necessarily be the same as mine, I'm just making sure yours are on their own recommended settings)

Hi Sabra, Was the new laptop "crunchy and contrasty" looking as soon as you started it up? Did the calibration make it better, worse, or no different?

Please answer the question. Do you mean Adobe RGB?

Then that's where you do it. ALL the noise must be removed in raw. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/07/raw-noise-removal.html

Yes indeed, that should help for a while. But be careful of your storage practices, otherwise the clutter that filled your 500GB will do the same to your 1TB.

Do you shoot raw?

All photos are RGB. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/11/colour-modes-vs-colour-spaces.html Do you mean Adobe RGB?

I'm so sorry to hear about this Do you remember how you added the watermark? I mean, did you type it manually in Photoshop, or was it done by some other program?

How did you go, @Glynda horsfall? Have you made some space on your hard drive?

Correct.

No no no, the whole lot. Raw, levels and skin. A complete clean edit.

Yep, I reckon it's a perfect candidate. Go ahead and do all your normal editing, then post it again and we'll discuss.

Please consider the class. It's really handy, and GREAT fun.

I've read that about lenses too. I have no way to confirm it myself. The "not wearing" thing is all I know, sorry.

Um ... did you mean to post this in class?

By themselves, they looked fine. But of course if your screen doesn't match your prints, nothing is fine.

Hi Regina, have you read the Layers & Masks Class yet?

I explained it just below the second image in the article.

Sorry, does what cover what all?

Glowy, of course. You know what glowy means from the skin class.

Oh! But these aren't hot areas, are they? I mean, they're just a bit more discoloured than the surrounding areas.

Thanks for reposting. Sorry about my delayed reply. Do you see how, as well as the colour striping of the moire, the shirt also has some thin stripes of detail, only in some places, of the shirt texture? I know that's real and everything, but I'm afraid we need to get rid of it as well, because it's likely to cause you problems later, when printing. The re-processing of the raw file reduced the problem somewhat, but it didn't remove it entirely as I'd hoped. So we'll have to do this in a two-step process. First you'll duplicate the Background layer, and run Filter>Noise>Despeckle. This should get rid of that thin stripy detail (and will also make lots of other detail in the photo blurry, but don't worry about that for now). Above that, add this Channel Mixer layer: R 0, +100, 0, -10 G 0, +100, 0, 0 B 0, +100, 0, +19 Then clip that CM layer to the Despeckled layer beneath it. Then add a black mask to the Despeckled layer. Then carefully paint onto the shirt (don't include the buttons!). The end result should be a smooth blue shirt, no texture or moire.

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Oh, this one is nasty. Can we discuss this in the Raw Class briefly?