Damien Symonds

Ok, great. I'll work on it tomorrow morning and have something to show you.

Ok, so you need a file where you can change the text colour as required, yes?

Download the PSD file The top two layers are the Handyman method.

This is the best I can manage:

Still cold, dark and noisy. Still cold, dark and noisy.

@HKeyMoments?

How did you go?

Fixed your lighting? How's the print comparison now?

How did it turn out?

Oh crap mate, you're in Adobe RGB! http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html This won't be easy, but I think we can fix it. First, go ahead and do your raw processing as normal, and especially don't forget the noise removal. Then post the closeup again for me.

Oh wow, REALLY good! You rock!

Hi Kirsten, if not black, what colour will the background be? Oh, and, what font is"photography"?

oh, right, I see. Stretching won't be involved in this one at all. The sides will need to be cloned, and for the bottom, you'll need to find another photo of his shirt to put in there.

No, wait, something's gone wrong here. The photo isn't 2:3 shape. It looks like you cropped it previously.

Did you ever do this? From the very large drop-down list, choose your monitor profile. (Whatever name you gave it when you just calibrated with the Spyder.)

Your cache levels were already on 4?

Further to this, I'd be interested to know what you see if you download and open my PSD file.

I can't remember if I've already asked - have you tried these? http://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/09/black-boxes-and-other-weird-behaviour.html

Did you view it in your browser, AND download it and open it in Photoshop?

Ok, so how does this look to you?

Yeah!! Well, I'd hoped for cream, but if that's all you've got, we can probably work with it. But you'll need to be further back to give yourself more room; and slightly higher, so you're looking down a bit more, yes?

A bathtowel or something? It just needs to be just enough texture to blend with the existing texture in the photos.

Got something with some more texture?

http://www.damiensymonds.net/trainingsharp-signup.html

Wouldn't you want it to be seamless? Just one colour flowing back?