Damien Symonds

Hey Mel, may I see a screenshot of your layers panel?

Download the PSD file The first layer, Channel Mixer, should be the same for every photo. The second one, Dodge and Burn, will need to be manually done for each photo, and will take the longest time of the whole process. Still, it shouldn't take too long. The top layer, the colour one, will also need to be tweaked a little for each photo. Let me know how it goes.

Yep, I think this might work, eh? Stand by, I'll upload a PSD ...

Yes please.

May I have one more 100% crop to see if my recipe works there too?

I know it's not perfect, but this is the best I can manage. Do you think it would suffice?

I don't know, but let's press on. May I have the new 100% crops?

Please please PLEASE sign up again. Clearly much has slipped your mind. However, for now, let's persevere with what you've given me. I have to take the kids to school just now, I'll post again as soon as I get back.

Don't mention it. May I have the whole photos as well?

Oh gosh, that's such a great question! I wish I had a great answer Some tools (eg clone and healing) work either way. The Patch Tool needs a duplicate. Often when I'm cloning I might need to include a little bit of patching too, so in those cases I generally duplicate to be safe. But duplicating adds a heck of a lot of file size to your PSD, of course, so it's not always the best idea. If you're cloning, and it's only a small area, a blank layer is ideal.

Hi Cindy, nice to see you. I'm playing with a recipe that might work. Go ahead and do your raw processing on maybe three of these photos, then post them again, each with a 100% crop.

Well?

How did you go?

@photogsreallife?

If anyone notices, then looks a second time, I think they look a bit strange. But they'll pass casual scrutiny.

I wish I had a clever "trick" for you, but I fear it'll just be painstaking cloning. How many of these photos will you have to do?

The interpolation options in the Image Size dialog do just fine. That's what he should have been experimenting with.

No, he's an idiot. Forget it.

@MelissaZeith?

There hasn't been a waiting list for ages, and I did email you. Just go to the Raw Class Table of Contents, you'll see the upgrade link.

Ok, that's still pretty awful, but until you take the raw class, it's the best you're going to manage, so let's move on. In Photoshop, add a Channel Mixer layer. Go to the Green output channel, and enter these values: +10 0 +110 0 Then mask it to those flowers, and see what you think.

No, still very noisy.

Whoa. Let's not start talking about Photoshop fixes until the raw editing is done properly.

Hi Brenda, may I have a 100% crop of it?

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