Damien Symonds

Download PSD It's biggish, sorry.

Don't worry, even if you had to completely uninstall Photoshop, you won't lose your actions. They're on your hard drive - wherever you downloaded them. Why are you using such an old version of Photoshop?

It's the same as Photoshop. Just hit Ctrl - (minus key) a few times.

Yes, that looks exactly as it should. I'm flummoxed, sorry. I've never heard of this problem before.

Download the PSD file You can take a look at my layers to see how I did it, then reproduce the steps on your own file.

No, you can't, sorry. Once the photo has been saved on this forum twice, it's had double jpeg compression and the quality is very poor. You'll need to do it yourself. Hold on ...

No, Mary is right. The problem here is that her flash is a LOT warmer than the ambient light. A LOT.

That's perfect, thanks. This is the best I can offer. Copied (and flipped) the better iris from left to right, and a little bit of cloning to take away a bit of the remaining glare. It's not perfect by any means, but at least both irises are there?

Great. Could you re-post the photo for me to check?

So strange. Can you show me a screenshot of the Convert to Profile window so I can check your settings? Have you restarted since this problem occurred?

Ok, that sounds fair. May I see the same crop area from the original photo?

In the meantime, you have a MUCH more serious problem to fix. Please follow this all the way to its end: https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html

You did it perfectly, thank you. Can you give me a few minutes to see what's feasible?

Great. Then yes, lower the screen's brightness to get a match.

Gosh, never heard of that one before! May I see a screenshot of the error message?

Let's deal with the first one first. May I see a 100% crop of the face? Here are the instructions: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2013/09/grabbing-700x700px-100-crop.html

I can't promise it will work for all eyes, no.

How fast should we make it look like she's flying? I mean, should the tie just be gently swaying back a little, or are we wanting to suggest really speedy zooming?

Thanks. I checked, and there's no problem here. The normal Levels approach will work just fine.

Tell me about the light in your room. Are you sure it's bright enough? https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/01/light-around-your-computer.html

"flatter" would be a brightness issue. The screen is too bright.

Yes please.

Yes please.

Well, yes, of course it changes things. Editing in Lightroom means your photos aren't as good as they should be. However, for this particular issue, no, it doesn't make any difference.

No Brian. PLEASE concentrate on the actual issue. Mary needs to know how to read the temperature of the ambient light, then match her flash to that temperature. I figure that she needs a light meter to take the reading, yes? Then how does she modify the flash temperature? With the gels you mentioned?