Damien Symonds

No, sorry. You can't possibly achieve this style unless you have good white balance.

Well, the usual advice is to get his shoes to check their colour against your screen. But since you don't have a calibrated screen ...

No, it's looking really bad, sorry

Gosh. Well, all's well that ends well, I guess ... but I wonder how often that happens to other people? Thanks for the closure

Ok. Obviously you should be running a cleanup more regularly, but otherwise, that all seems fine. Have you tried these? https://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/09/black-boxes-and-other-weird-behaviour.html

Yeah, fantastic! This'll be fun. Go ahead and do full clean editing on your photo, then post again and we'll play with the style.

Could you do this for me? https://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html

I don't know what to tell you, sorry. If the printer says CMYK, but can't tell you how to do it, we're stumped.

You can't convert to a profile until you know what the profile is

You have to hassle them and hassle them and hassle them until they DO provide specifics.

And? Did they tell you exactly which CMYK profile to use? Go back and save them again.

If they don't ask for CMYK, definitely don't provide it.

Have you read this before? Did the printer ask for CMYK? Was the first print run CMYK as well? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/05/making-pdfs-from-photoshop.html

No, do your liquify first. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/07/order-of-layers-for-complex-pixel-edits.html

Oh, sorry, for Elements it's here:

This tricks everyone. No, you need to use Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal.

Ok, in that case, I think we can get away with the easiest option. Duplicate the Background layer Go to the Canvas Size dialog, and extend the size at that side Flip the new layer horizontally, then move it across so it lines up perfectly (zoom in greater than 100% view to ensure this) Add a new blank layer and clone out as much elbow as needed

No, sorry, both of these area dreadfully out of focus. Ditch it

Hi Diana, yes, there are a few ways to approach it. Do you intend to do anything else to the background? Change its colour in any way, I mean? Presently it's slightly shaded white (ie very light grey) - will that be how it remains?

Channel Mixer layer ... Red channel: 0, +80, +20, -9 Green channel: 0, +80, +20, -3 Blue channel: 0, +80, +20, +11

Can you post a close crop of the area so I can have a good look?

It was to prevent the High Pass layer from making colours too vivid.

Because I'm heading off soon, here's the PSD. Of course, if it doesn't meet your needs, we can discuss it further when I get back.

Ok, how about this?

Ok, so what about the SpyderTune step? Are you saying that doesn't work?