Damien Symonds

@Julie K?

Don't just give them that bad news cold. As I said, accompany it with a version of the photo with the flyaways fixed. That will appease them a bit.

I doubt it. Cloning would present the same problem of blurring, possibly worse.

Well, you could try a bit of very gentle and very patient Liquifying. But the trouble is, Liquifying softens fine detail a bit. If you'd shot this in such a way (eg very shallow DOF) that the hair was slightly out of focus, I'd have a lot more faith in the Liquify approach. But I reckon you've nailed that hair in pretty good focus, yes? In that case, Liquify presents a big risk of blurring it noticeably. To be honest, I'd clean up the flyaways nicely, and tell that that's all you can do. Let's face it, this is a stupid request. You can't be expected to accommodate every stupid request that comes along.

@mlchristy?

@kkvogelfamily12, are you still there?

Six. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/02/printing-big.html https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_enlarge.html https://www.damiensymonds.net/2014/03/how-aggressively-can-i-crop.html https://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/10/noise-reduction-and-sharpening-leap-of.html

Yep, so maybe start with a bit of Handyman now?

Press Q

No, you've changed the shape of her jaw.

What about the hair side? I provided these two images so you could flick between them and see exactly the difference I made.

Gosh no, mine is a lot further than yours.

Weren't game to take it as far as I did?

These are questions you'll have to answer yourself, sorry. I don't know her, to know how skinny she "should" be. If you were going to work on the double chin, it would just be handyman method.

I've moved this into AD, because it's not a class question. I think Liquify will do fine: Of course I used the mask in Liquify to make sure nothing was moved that shouldn't be:

What don't you like about it? May I see?

Looks excellent.

The short answer is "no". You'll never get them to match exactly, or even well. What make/model is the second monitor? Also, can you remind me which Spyder you have?

Download the PSD

Ok, so does either of those two do it for you? I hope you understand that her photo has far fewer bright areas than yours, so the look won't be quite the same.

A lighter feel?? Are we looking at the same photo? Anyway, it's no problem to lighten it, of course. I don't know what you mean about cheering it up, sorry. Maybe less of the sepia undertone, and more of the original colour coming through?

Is this something like?

Lots of people have the same confidence issues, don't worry

This is good. Spectacularly good, in fact.

No, that's not the line tool. Click and hold on the tool in the toolbar, and you'll get a little flyout with all the tool varieties.