Damien Symonds

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

For the red pants, a Hue/Saturation layer, choose Reds, and lower the Lightness slider all the way to -100. For the rest, I don't have any tricks, sorry. Just painstaking cloning.

May I see a crop that shows the full width of his head?

Of course you can ask questions about the class content in both tiers of the class. But you can only post your photos for my help in the Deluxe one.

Yes, it's quite fixable, I think. But it's all Levels Class stuff, sorry. I can't help you until you're in that class.

What colour would you like? It would need to be another light colour. This would be ideal if we could pull it off, but we'd have to be EXTRAORDINARY lucky to find another photo at exactly the correct angle, lighting, depth of field, size, etc.

I'm so sorry for your loss Removing it would be impossible. We could change the colour, but it would, I fear, still look like a silly hat.

No, I don't have instructions for the Colormunki Smile. From my "What to buy" page:

Point number 6:

There's no room for ambiguity here. Your screen has to match your prints, period. Does it?

May I see the SOOC?

May I see the area close up?

It'll pass a first glance, but not a second.

Gee, I don't know, sorry. It might be easier to get the jacket out again, hang it over a chair or something, and photograph it.

No, if you look at the image sizes again, you'll see they're exactly the same. Exactly the same pixel dimensions, that is. And that's the only thing that matters. So the answer is: either method is fine. They both give the right result.

Yep, sounds like you've done it exactly right. Let me know how it goes.

By "stripping out the profile" they mean to uncheck the profile box in the Save As dialog when you're saving the file. I don't know what to tell you, sorry. This is just down to luck, it seems.

You must have some photos with nice (bright) treed backgrounds?

No, I think that's silly. If you're going to go to all that trouble, don't do it half-assed.

Um ... that one has houses in it too ...

Yeah, I can't see any value in it.

The first one is completely irrelevant, because you must work in changing light. The second one ... well, that functionality is in Photoshop already, so I'm not sure what the benefit would be. The third on ... how many screens do you have?

Well yes, with a heck of a lot of patience, you could mask it out to white. Then maybe put a pale fake sky in. A hard job, but a great challenge.

What do they say are the differences?

Just to check - you're aware that a screen can be IPS with LED backlight, right? They're not mutually exclusive.