Damien Symonds

You'll need a photo with dark hair, not blonde, and definitely without any sky (or any light areas at all) in the background. Or, can you find a different example photo which is more like yours? Then post your clean-processed black-and-white edit for us to apply the style to. (Your size is fine, by the way - the forum automatically shrinks oversized files, so you can't go wrong.)

Hi Nate, can you tell me exactly how you're exporting them? Oh, you ain't seen nothin' yet. The Levels and Skin classes will blow your mind. And the Sharpening class will give you prints you've never dreamed of.

Hi Ashley, Spyders can be flaky like this. You'll probably have to do this: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2013/10/how-to-properly-re-install-spyder.html

Yes, I think the same method there too.

Ok, yep, the face one will need to be this method. Now may I see a 100% crop from her neck?

The Levels Class will rock your images in dozens of ways, but no, this is not a Levels Class thing.

Ok. The one on her cheek looks the hardest. May I see a 100% crop of that area?

First things first, have you assessed the problem, and ascertained how you'd prevent it from ever happening again?

Hi Suzanne, the handyman method will work fine for this. Make sure you work with a very low opacity brush, and plenty of patience. I used 3% for this:

Phew, great! It wouldn't be a bad idea to test to make sure the calibrator itself is ok. Do you happen to have another computer in the house which you can try calibrating?

You're viewing it WAY bigger than 100%. Of course it's going to look pixelated when you zoom way in. Only view at 100% size.

Wait, have you reset Photoshop's preferences? Hold down Ctrl Alt Shift immediately you launch Photoshop.

I'm so sorry, I've got nothing. You'll need to ask Adobe.

Wow. Is this for every type of file? Newly-processed raw file Previously saved PSD file Previously saved jpeg file

What about plain Save?

Did you mean "opened" all the blinds?

How odd. Same thing when you use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl Shift S?

Gee Cathy, this sounds like a problem with your room light, not your screen. Can you describe the light in your room?

Looks perfectly fine here. What program are you viewing it in?

The fact that he does this tells me that he's using copy/paste, which is BAD. You must always use File>Place to bring your textures in. No, just add a Hue/Saturation layer, and clip it to the texture layer, then slide the Saturation slider all the way to the left.

What you've shown here is the natural behaviour of Photoshop. At some point in the past you must have gone to Edit>Keyboard Shortcuts to customise the Ctrl L shortcut to create a layer; and now it's been lost. Photoshop always loses settings occasionally. So yeah, you'll need to go to Edit>Keyboard Shortcuts and do it again.

Yes, it's so simple you'll fall off your chair. It's just a Levels layer, and I moved the black Input slider to 50, and the black Output slider to 70. Then masked it to everything except the child. And you'll find dozens more matte variations in the download files.

How is this?

This one won't work. You'll need to find a photo of hers that has light in the background like yours; or find a photo of yours that doesn't have light in the background, like hers.

What? It's been open for several months. https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/6534-skin-class-details/