Damien Symonds

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?

At the bottom of every page

Congrats on your upgrade!

It's all in the Levels Class, don't worry. Go to the Table of Contents, you'll see it.

No, the file you're looking at has been uploaded to Facebook at some stage. Find the original, it'll be much bigger than that. (I know it's been on Facebook, because instead of the usual sRGB profile, it's carrying the weird Facebook "C2" profile.)

Ya gotta shut down or restart every day.

Well gee, that's too long. Please restart before we pursue any other troubleshooting.

Hi Lloyd, before we get to specifics, could you do this for me? https://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html

Have you tried this setting?

Is it ONLY in Photoshop? No other program?

No, that's STUPID. Do it RIGHT NOW.