Damien Symonds

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/

Glad you're enjoying them. Just you wait, the Skin Class will rock your world. Unfortunately I can't access this link. The owner must have their page locked down to only be visible to people from their own country. Can you find the image on their website?

Alas, yeah, I see what you mean This'll have to be a patient clone/heal job.

No, sorry, the forum has shrunk your file. Please take some at 700.

Yeah, funny how many well known photographers are shit at editing.

Hi Jennifer, I've moved this post to AD, since it's not a class question per se. The easiest way would be to add a cream Solid Color layer set to "Color" blend mode. Let me know if that isn't satisfactory, and we can explore a more complex method.

There is a plug-in called "Flood" which everyone raves about for this kind of thing. I've never found that Photoshop's ripple features are much good.

May I have a few more 100% crops?

@BrianJoseph?

@stevie?

How did you go, @meris?

Did that help, @Leslie Vu?

@Melissa Harris Photography?

Either Cmd Delete or Option Delete, depending on which colour is the foreground colour in your toolbar.

Hi Emma, don't try to fix it, just replace it. https://www.damiensymonds.net/preventing-banding-in-backdrops/ Eg this: Download the PSD file

Oh, it's absolutely not worth $4.99, let alone $49.99. It's only for people who don't know how to use Levels.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/08/buying-wide-gamut-screen.html

Yes.

No, something is going badly wrong here. Are you measuring it with a ruler?

You can't leave the resolution field blank, nor do you need to. It doesn't matter what you put in there, it's completely meaningless, I promise. 300, 200, 100, whatever.

Is this the article you're following?