Damien Symonds

Hi Jody, thanks. May I also have a 100% crop of the problem area? However, glasses glare is not your biggest problem presently. You have a MUCH bigger problem than that. Fix it by going here: https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html Follow the troubleshooter all the way to its conclusion.

Excellent! Good kid.

Download the PSD I used the red channel as the starting point, because it had the best contrast.

How's this?

I downloaded it, of course. I think I've got a plan. Could you post the 100% crop of the photo with the grey background; and a 100% crop of the background filling the frame, no mask. So I can layer them for myself.

Make sure you always embed the image profile, whenever saving an image for upload.

Some VERY important reading: Selling digital images Raw noise removal (plus the leap of faith) Also, since you have no calibrator listed in your profile, it makes me fear that you don't know how dark and ... well, kinda awful ... your photo looks. PLEASE invest in a calibrator pronto.

You can see how awful that is, right? It looks like you accidentally sharpened it twice.

Hi Katherine, may I see a 100% crop from the file you sent her?

It'll be ok at web size. But yeah, you'd never use it for any other purpose.

It should just be a matter of going to Photoshop's Help menu and choosing "Updates".

https://www.damiensymonds.net/levels-eyedropper

So I think I'd brighten with Levels, then use the SelCol layer, on "Whites" and set to "Absolute", to add maybe 5 of Cyan and 10 of Black, to bring back some strength to the lightened fabric.

Weird.

The version you've posted - is it with your adjustments applied already? Because those two are the two I'd recommend too, I reckon.

How did you go?

The sharpening. By itself, resampling does nothing, just as your correspondent said.

Of course he's wrong about this. Professional photographers have been printing billboards since the days of three megapixel cameras.

Yes, that's absolutely correct. No argument here. https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_resample.html

Yes, that noise removal is fine, and yes, the focus is quite acceptable.

Sorry, I need you to have removed the noise before posting these.

I have a Nvidia one too, but its Control Panel is really feeble. I don't know if there's somewhere I'm not looking. I hope you have more luck than I did.

Oh bother. I seem to remember somebody else had this problem too. It's ok, you just have to do the steps slightly differently. First, crop the area without any values imposed at all. Then open the Image Size dialog, and turn off the "Resample Image" checkbox. Then enter your width in the Width field. As you do this, the Resolution will change by itself, and that's the number you write down.

I know you said leave the join, but maybe you could have one more crack at persuading her with something like this?

In that case, what would you want to do with the rug he's sitting on?