Damien Symonds

Glad you like it. It takes a while to explain, and unfortunately I have to go out now for a bit, but I'll post as soon as I get back.

If you are desperate, and you do decide to use it, make sure you don't print it very big, and when you do, crop it as little as possible.

Only keep it if you're absolutely desperate. It sure isn't very good.

Yep. I don't think so, but there are two ways I'd check. First, I'd look at each channel. Second, I'd add a Levels layer and slowly drag the white slider in aggressively. Between those two methods, you should be able to spot any hard edges. Well, I guess try Content Aware Fill first. If that fails, then it's just careful cloning, sorry.

Hmmm ... it's revealed some flaws in your blending, hasn't it? That's ok, just go to Layer>Smart Object>Edit Contents, and it will open up the original layers in a separate view, so you can fix the masking a bit.

Do you still need help with this, Glynda?

Great. So delete any of the layers you haven't used, then select all the layers, and Layer>Convert to Smart Object. This will, as the name says, combine all the layers into one smart object. Then you can Edit>Transform>Warp (or any other kind of transformation, maybe perspective might be good too?) and go nuts.

May I also see a screenshot of your layers panel? (Sorry, I should have thought to ask earlier.)

We'll worry about that later. Go ahead and purge the layers you don't need; then blend.

Oh boy. I think you should do the blending for now. Once that is done, you can warp it all together as desired.

Of course, you don't need to pay full price to renew.

I can't discuss this stuff outside of class, sorry.

Lori, are you high again? I've told you to stop smoking that stuff.

You must never start Photoshop work until the raw processing is done.

Well, for the same reason we shoot in raw. It's good to start with as much range of colour as possible. How does this look?

Oh! Actually, in this case, that's a good thing! Can you post the Adobe RGB files for me to see?

Oh, it's totally possible, don't worry! Did you do the scanning, or were they sent to you already scanned?

I can't remember, sorry. Try it and see.

Not exactly. Open the first one into PS, then File>Place and choose the other raw file. No need for an intermediate PSD save. Only one PSD needed. Alas, I can't think of any "tricks", sorry.

Do you have your filename extensions turned on? https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/02/view-your-filename-extensions-windows.html

Oh gee. Are they drawn on white paper? Or is it somewhat off-white?

Since the only photos of the middle-sized kid looking at the camera have him squinting, maybe you could use H as your base? H is the only one where the oldest kid is any good, and middle kid is at least happy; and mum is ok too. That just leaves little kid and Dad, and you could use them both from J.

Screenshot please.

It must be, but I don't know anything about video, sorry

Right.