Damien Symonds

Well, yes.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/desktop-monitor-brightness

Just to check - you've read this, right? https://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/02/moire.html

What? The lines should be nice and big at 100%. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2013/09/grabbing-700x700px-100-crop.html

And? Is it accurate? Is that why you're considering buying another screen? No, ABSOLUTELY NOT. That is a false setting, it's not real.

Hang on, break it down for me. There is no moire at 100% view in your master file, right?

Alas, sorry, all the channels are damaged. There's no fixing this one. You'll need to look for another photo from which you can swap that area of detail, if possible.

I emailed you.

Right. Sounds perfect. Yes.

Yeah, I'd say it's gone bad.

Can we talk about this first? How current is your monitor calibration? Your whole edit is weirdly dark.

Well, you'll have to sacrifice all those flyaways.

And may I see how you wish it to look?

No, it can't be done, sorry. It will always look cut out. In black-and-white maybe you could get away with it, by making the hair look very ("artistically") dark.

Um ... do you think ... maybe ... this is one of those rare threads that might be better with ... I dunno ... A PHOTO??????????????????

I love CC, but to start paying money every month for software you already own??? That's insanity. Now, start a new post in "Help with editing" so we can talk about your seamless problem. The answer is NOT an action.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't do it!!!!! Fantastic! This is excellent news. Today is the first day of your post-action life. Take control of your editing. https://www.facebook.com/damien.photoshop/photos/a.183682458346830.39021.183680248347051/1316630498385348/?type=3

So the crop tool is working, but no other tools? You can't use the Lasso Tool, or anything like that?

Edit>Convert to profile Make sure the "Flatten" checkbox is not checked.

How many photos have you tried? Is it happening with all of them?

Terrific, that's great news. So, when you hit Cmd N to create a new document, you should see an "Advanced" section at the bottom of that window? When you expand that section, you should see where you can choose the colour space. In my version, it looks like this:

There are a few aspects to this. First, can you go to Color Settings (in the Photoshop menu, I think) and make sure they're on "North America General Purpose 2" the way they should be? They must not be on "Custom" or any other setting. Correct. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2013/02/resizing-photos-in-templates-ps-pse.html

Yes, it's what I'm after, and it's really really really really really REALLY bad. The template MUST be sRGB, like the images. The text files don't matter quite so much, but technically they should be sRGB as well. That's great. No problems there. Yes, it sure will.

Well, it indicates that your light isn't perfect, but in the grand scheme of things, it's nowhere near the worst problem to have, is it? I'd be happy that you have a print match.

Well, the colour of the gradient in that area has to be as close as possible to the colour of the existing background. Any variation will, as you say, make the blend very difficult.