Damien Symonds

You must watch this video again. Your culling process is so vital. If you're careless with it, and unworthy photos make it through to your editing process, it's a huge waste of time.

You're doing it perfectly, I promise. You need to be more patient. Keep painting the mask with that 20% brush, and the sprinkles will come.

Jpeg is fine. It doesn't even need to be particularly high quality.

Scan it in two pieces, then? And put them together? It's easy enough to do. If you can get this right, the rest will be SO easy.

Oh heck yes!!!!!!! There's a paper included in the frame? Does it have sample photos printed on it?

First of all, I'd say you'll need to repair the camera-left eye. This will be a whole tricky combination of: Handyman method for the wire mesh pattern on the outside Copying (but not flipping) the pupil and catchlight from the other eye Copying and flipping the lashes (or maybe just cloning) and also the inside area near the nose Cloning the skin under the eye THEN, once that eye is completely repaired, copy and flip the whole thing and try to use it to replace the big glare area on the camera-right side. It's extra tricky because the glasses aren't sitting evenly on his eyes, of course. So there will be plenty of cloning involved too. In short, it's a time-consuming nightmare. After doing the repair on the camera-right side, if you feel it's a bit dodgy (and heck, it probably will be) don't be afraid to lower the opacity of your work to allow some of the original glare to remain. It's natural, after all.

Download the PSD Even with the most careful masking of the Levels layer, there will still be a bit of a line between the grass sections. That's why the clone/heal layer is necessary. Please don't wait any longer for the Channel Mixer class.

Maybe your Levels 2 layer wasn't aggressive enough? After you'd used the white dropper on that layer, did you move your mouse all over the paper to make sure everything was reading 255/255/255?

That's right, yes.

Um ... for people who are reading this, Holly hasn't given you the back story. She would like the blue tarp disguised in the background, and the two tones of grass changed to one tone. This is her SOOR, she hasn't commenced her Levels editing yet.

Hi Lloyd, this raises an important question - how regularly do you restart your computer?

Do they have to be separate photos? Will it be possible to print one big photo with the photos positioned correctly, and just put it in there?

When you open them in ACR, are they also rotated?

How did it go?

And if Emma had been scanning these pictures herself, I would have given her the same advice.

Then no. Scan them in sRGB as usual, and make sure there is no clipping at either end when scanning.

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Please don't wait too long to take the channel mixer class. You'll love it. It's great for all sorts of things. https://www.facebook.com/groups/195567190503489/permalink/1564192333640961/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/195567190503489/permalink/1534913789902149/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/195567190503489/permalink/1525505314176330/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/195567190503489/permalink/1501977239862471/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/195567190503489/permalink/1451481291578733/

A Channel Mixer layer: Red 0, +117, 0, +5 Green 0, +100, 0, 0 Blue 0, +102, 0, +3 Then mask onto the shirt.

Sorry, no, I didn't mean the print file. I meant may I have the 100% crop from your PSD master file - the one you've edited, but not resized or sharpened for print.

Hi Michelle, I see no reason to work on the unedited photo. We should be able to just add the moire fix over the top of your editing, which should make things easier for you So may I see the 100% crop from your edited master file? Also, may I see the full photo for context?

Hi Sherri, it's really important to only judge softness/sharpness at 100% view. Zoom in to 100% in whichever programs you're viewing in, and you'll see they're the same.

Is he scanning them himself, or getting them scanned?

Hell, you weren't opening files in ACR to cull them, were you?????????????

Looks great. Can you post this in Levels briefly? There's something I want to ask you.