Damien Symonds

What? No, you should be using a 5% brush at most.

No, sorry. A bit too fuzzy.

Hmmm ...what opacity of brush were you using?

Yes, isn't the dark red area the problem?

No, no, it'll just be a handyman job. Very straightforward.

Geez you're scraping the bottom of the bullshit barrel here. The next time you have a photo which you think would benefit from premature cropping, post it for me and we'll discuss why you're wrong.

Yes, but why would you ever need that? Think it through.

"Delete Cropped Pixels" must ALWAYS be checked. Never uncheck it.

May I see an example of the banding? I promise, it's nothing to do with your tablet.

Yep, Handyman will work there too. Remember, it's not a quick fix. Use a low opacity brush, and patience.

I think that's a genius fix, well done! But that arm should be a bit darker, shouldn't it? So just add a Hue/Saturation layer, and clip it to the arm layer (Ctrl Alt G), then lower the Lightness slider a little.

Hi Carly, Most of it looks like it will be fixed easily with the Handyman Method. But the bit on the top of the rocks, just below the trees, looks very strong, doesn't it? May I see a 100% crop of that area?

How did you go? Did you make it to 80?

I'd say you're already well on your way. There's some lovely warmth back there to begin with. Did you browse the files? This one and this one seem very relevant.

Tricky one, but yes, I fear the motion blur will be too noticeable

You're welcome. Let me know if you have any trouble with applying it. Please consider the Channel Mixer Class. It's capable of endless magic.

Add a Channel Mixer layer, and enter these values: Red +80, 0, 0, +10 Green +70, 0, 0, 0 Blue +80, 0, 0, 0 Then mask it to the area.

Does this look ok? You'll be blown away by how easy it is

Yeah, sorry

They've shafted you badly. PLEASE make this a turning point in your photography life. It's time to start afresh, and begin doing everything properly. https://www.damiensymonds.net/training.html

By the way, never shoot raw+jpeg. There are no upsides, only downsides. Raw only.

Well, this makes one decision easy, at least. All the starting over in the world won't make this a better photo if you don't have a raw file to start over with. You'll need to honestly apologise to the client and tell them the photo isn't of sufficient quality for a banner

Nope

No, that's a jpeg file. Didn't you shoot raw? This just gets worse and worse.

Oh no, this is much worse than I feared. Can you please send me the original raw file that your camera captured? Send it via this link: https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/BellePhotography