Damien Symonds

First, fix this problem.

Ok, so THAT is what we need to be talking about. What make/model of screen do you have, and how old is it? How old is your ColorMunki?

No, it's DEFINITELY not.

Hi Glynda, I'll need to see it up close. Go ahead and do your raw processing, then post a 100% crop for me.

No, don't worry about it.

By what basis are you making that judgement? The only correct basis is pro lab prints against Photoshop.

Ok, thanks. Let me know when you've recalibrated.

It's asking me for my email address?

Because my initial suspicion would be that you don't have your External Editing settings correct: https://www.damiensymonds.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LR-sRGB-04.png

Also, this one: https://www.damiensymonds.net/color-space-settings-for-the-lightroom-user.html

Are you able to provide me with these two links?

Hi Pam, before we start exploring all the aspects of this, have you read this article?

You've followed Points 1-3 of the posting guidelines just right. Have you explored Point 5? Unfortunately, you're a long way from the mark of Point 4, at least on your first photo. Please revisit. In the second photo, your cloning job is really obvious. You need to revisit that and prevent the repeated patterns. Speaking of cloning, that will be the very first aspect of these edits. Of course, it's better to get the blurry backgrounds in camera, but we can see that even Ms Reeves herself hasn't been able to do that. Ironically, her background blur jobs are bloody awful, because she hasn't followed this method.

1. This is a common question. It seems to do it persistently for "in-between" screens - the ones that have slightly bigger gamut than normal, but not right up there at the Adobe RGB end of the range. I'm afraid I don't have a better answer than: The proof is in the result. If you try one way, and the print match isn't as good as you'd wish, try the other way. 2. Yes, sounds like you should use RGB LED. Again, though, the answer is: Try both ways if necessary.

Ctrl T.

Marquee right away. Select the area around the eye, and Ctrl J it to make its own layer.

Well, please let me help you step by step. Pause and show me screenshots as many times as you wish, as you proceed.

I'm so sorry, I promised Meg I wouldn't show people how to do hers any more. But if you can't find anything that inspires you here, find another photographer doing similar work and post for me.

This is quite a large file, which is why I didn't share it before, but I hope, if you can download it, it will help. PSD file

I assume her veil is still a work in progress? The hand will be tricky, because I bet the suit has texture? May I see it close up?

Great! Did that particular photo have any layers in it before you ran the action? Did you run the action on top of all the other layers?

Did replacing it work?

Yes. But PLEASE don't wait any longer to learn how to sharpen properly. https://www.damiensymonds.net/trainingsharp.html

Great, so just re-load that one from where it's saved on your hard drive?