Damien Symonds

Please do.

No, that's incorrect. I give better advice than those chumps.

That's right.

You've done a really great job. You should be very proud. My only suggestion is to make the shadow quite dark right along the edge of the fabric. That's important, to make it look like the fabric is resting on the skin.

Also, it goes without saying that you'll need a photo with more cloud detail.

What a lovely photo. Now, can you provide one of your own that's lit the same? Please notice that the linked photo has NO shadows falling on the sand from the subjects, so it must have been taken after the sun had set (or before it had risen).

Yes, you've clearly forgotten pretty much everything

@Daniwright11?

No, a different example. A different linked photo, that you'd like to mimic.

How much space did it have at the time the problem occurred? 72.3 is a good deal less than the 1/3rd free space that @Brian recommends for your hard drive. I urge you to make it a regular thing - at least once a month, if not more. Card readers are dirt cheap, I urge you to get one pronto.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/training.html I already told you ...

Please PLEASE don't wait any longer to take the raw class. I can help you make your photos SO much better, you'll be blown away.

Assuming that you do know how to use clipping masks, I've made the template for you. Download it here

As a side note, but VERY important, I notice your images are untagged. This is dangerous, you must ALWAYS include the ICC profile when saving your images.

Hi, are you familiar with working with clipping masks, for this kind of work?

Could you do this for us?

How did you go, @jlmacheca?

So maybe you should have ignored that part completely, and cloned from smoother areas?

No. The sky is full of detail in the example photo. The hell they are.

Yep, those are good solutions for now. Let me know what happens after calibration.

@Sarah Casile?

Oh, phew.

Can I just check something ... you haven't actually cropped these images to 2000x680 pixels, have you? That would be CATASTROPHIC.

Yeah.

Ha ha!