Damien Symonds

Wait, what?? You told me you couldn't copy and flip! You can definitely copy and flip this.

Sorry, what part of "this us unusable" isn't clear?

Ok, I need more information. What format are they in presently? For what purpose are you putting them on disk? And in what format?

There are a few levels to this discussion, I guess. First, do you have your preferences set up like this?

May I see the other eye, at least? I need to know what colour the sclera is supposed to be. Does this look dodgy?

Before I explore the channels - copy and flip isn't an option?

Alas, this is unusable, sorry. Even for canvas, which is forgiving, this would look awful.

For now, yes.

Um, no, we need all the noise removal we can get. Put that Luminance slider back up. WAY up.

Well, I'm not sure, exactly. I suspect your noise "Detail" and "Contrast" sliders (which you have both presently set at 84) are too high as well. But until I see it without the awful sharpening, I can't really tell.

Oh yeah, gosh, can't you see how much damage the Sharpening is doing?? That slider MUST be at 0. Do that, then show me the 100% crop again.

Gosh, that's dreadful. Something's gone badly wrong here. May I see a screenshot of your Detail panel in raw?

No, not the Crop Tool. Read the instructions again, please.

That 100% crop is WAY too large of a portion of the whole photo. What are the pixel dimensions of the whole photo?

Download my PSD

http://www.damiensymonds.net/preventing-banding-in-backdrops/

Would this be ok?

Please read this again and again and again and again and again until it STICKS.

No, that's cropped. The SOOR please.

May I see the SOOR?

Download the PSD First I duplicated the forehead and moved it up. Actually, I duplicated it twice, but duplicating once then stretching it a bit would have worked too. I masked that onto the appropriate area. Then the next two layers are from the Handyman Method, to make the light and colour correct. Then a final layer for a bit more cloning, to take care of the last wisps.

No, it's not going to work. Anyone can see the light is striking it from the wrong side.

Is this what you mean?

Oh! Crap!!!!!!! Do this right away. This is VERY bad.

Make sure you do the raw processing on your photo before beginning any Photoshop work, of course.