Damien Symonds

You can do it that way, but it's less than ideal for a number of reasons. To clarify ... ... are you talking about low-res web proofs for your clients to browse, then order their favourites? Or are you talking about high-res files for the clients to keep and print their own?

Great! Now go and have fun with Bridge!

Lovely photo. Generally this is my go-to method. A broad yellow glow, and a small white glow at the centre: Of course, the yellow glow doesn't need to be so strongly yellow, nor so broad. What do you think of it? I suppose what I should have asked at the beginning was, can you provide me with any links to lantern photos that you admire?

Ok, uncheck it (and maybe restart Photoshop) and see if that helps.

Ok. Next thing to try. In Bridge, go to the Edit menu, and choose "Camera Raw Preferences". When that window comes up, is there a checkbox for "Use Graphics Processor"? If so, is it checked or unchecked?

Hi Melissa, yes, this comes up from time to time (usually at this time of year) The challenge isn't usually the lantern itself, but making whatever is near it look plausible. May I see the photo you're working on?

How this this end up, Ang?

See at the top, kinda towards the right-hand side, how it says "Essentials" highlighted in yellow? Click on "Filmstrip" beside it, I find it more useful. It will give you a bigger view of the chosen image. However, even at this size I can see that the raw files look ok in colour, yes? Did you check the settings in the "black boxes" article I gave you?

The other thing I need you to do is check these settings: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/09/black-boxes-and-other-weird-behaviour.html Your problem isn't "black boxes" per se, but might well be related.

Oh gee, then you haven't lived! How do you browse and cull your photos? Bridge is ESSENTIAL. It will change your life. https://www.damiensymonds.net/bridge-video

Now, tell me about Bridge. Do your photos in Bridge match Photoshop, or ACR, or neither?

This will be part of the problem for sure. 4GB is only half of the minimum that Adobe recommend for running CC. I urge you to make sure you don't have any other programs running while you're using Photoshop. This is a very small hard drive, and will also be contributing to problems. Make sure you keep things as lean as possible, so you have as much free space as possible. Photoshop needs that. Do you have any other internal hard drives, or only C?

It's not too complicated. There's no trick to it, really. You just have to fiddle with the colours until it's about right.

No no no no no. Don't rasterize. What are you attempting to do, when that message appears?

Shit no, don't be silly. You definitely want the whole photo.

No, you just copied and pasted. That's bad. Always use File>Place. Have you re-read Module 7 of the L&M Class lately?

Ok, may I see screenshots of that too?

This is so funny. Why did you take a photo of just the shirt? Anyway, can you show me a screenshot of what you've done so far?

Your masking still needs to be tidied up, but I don't think it looks poor.

Also, to begin, can you do this for me?

Hi Olivia, The photo you've showed me there is a raw file. Can we put that aside for a moment. How about jpeg files? Are they different too? Between the viewer and Photoshop, I mean.

Glad you like it. I used a 5% brush because I was in a bit of a hurry. Hopefully you'll find that 5% works for you too, but you may need to drop to 3% to make it look really smooth.

Oh Wendy, I wish I had some magic quick fix for you. Sometimes there is, but not this time It'll have to be handyman method. It's very very good, but it does take a bit of time.

*thumbs up*

Check for yourself. Download the file.