Damien Symonds

You SERIOUSLY need to renew the Layers & Masks Class. It's only $14 to do so, and you badly need it.

What the hell? You ALWAYS want a mask added to your adjustment layers. DO NOT TURN THAT OFF.

Before I tell you how to do it .... why?

Yeah, don't take any guff from the lab. Sounds like they messed up this time. You've double-checked that they're sRGB?

Your settings are perfect. You're right not to change them. As long as your calibrated screen still matches previous prints you've had, then yes, I agree that this is a problem with the latest print batch. Can you describe how the latest prints differ from your screen?

@msn?

Stacey?

How did you go?

No, you can at least make a start.

If you don't have pro lab prints in your hand, you haven't calibrated.

Oh, now I'm very nervous. Did you follow these instructions for your calibration?

Make sure you always have a set of pro lab prints on hand to verify your screen calibration. DO NOT CALIBRATE YOUR SCREEN TO MATCH YOUR HOME PRINTER.

Ah, this is a vexed question. You see the Printer section in the calibration software because that's the same software they provide with all their devices. Unfortunately, your i1DisplayPro can't calibrate printers. You need the MUCH more expensive hardware for that. Please please PLEASE don't do this. Printing your own is for fools and zealots. It's not worth the trouble, and it's MUCH too expensive. For starters, you need to buy the very expensive calibration hardware I just mentioned above. And then all the ink and paper you use just to get the calibration right. Sell that thing, and find a good lab.

Oh gee, no. You have to do your raw processing first.

Yep, try this. Duplicate the Background layer (or make a selection around his face just like your 100% crop here, and duplicate that) then run High Pass filter at about 4.0 radius. Then change that layer to Overlay blend mode. Then add a black mask, and paint on to the freckled areas.

I've had some success with the High Pass filter in the past. May I see the photo? A 100% crop of the freckles?

Yeah, no, jpegs should never be 20MB. I wasn't at all surprised to see you say "him" in this post. It must be a penis-related thing, it so often seems to be men who demand outrageously big files. He is an idiot, of course. The problem is that people like this think they know something about digital imaging, but of course they don't. On average, what are the pixel dimensions of the files you sent him? And what quality level did you save them at?

Oh, it's quite simple matter of cloning. As usual, add a blank layer to clone on, and make sure your Clone Tool is set to "Sample Current and Below" in the options bar. First, clone the fabric part. Make sure the lines of the fabric texture are lined up exactly: Then, the skin part:

This is the one I use: http://www.glarysoft.com/

http://www.glarysoft.com/

I don't know, sorry. Just restart daily, and run Glary regularly.

It won't help now. It won't take effect until you restart, I expect. So, you're able to do some stuff, such as changing preferences, but you're not able to do other stuff? Not entirely useless. But borderline useless, yes.

While you've only got 8GB of RAM, maybe you should turn off Auto Save in preferences? Have you tried duplicating the image (Image>Duplicate) and saving that instead?

Sorry, I don't understand. That's ACR, not Photoshop. 8GB of RAM is the bare minimum that Adobe recommends for CC. Combined with not restarting for over a day, that might add up to problems. How many images do you have open at the moment? And how many other programs do you have running?

This is the info I need. Also, a screenshot of what you're seeing in Photoshop would be handy.