While you're fixing the raw editing, can you also look for some golden example images that have the same lighting as yours? That is, the "panda eyes" facial shadows?
Presently, you're desiring a beautiful look that just isn't possible with your photos
Did you maybe mean seventh and seventeenth? The 15th one, by my count, is a girl leaning against a stone wall with one leg out, and it doesn't look particularly golden.
Because you're viewing the jpeg files in a non-colour-managed program, I assume. Make sure you only view in Bridge.
Oh shit!!!! And because you're in Adobe RGB.
Do this NOW: http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html
Follow it all the way through to its conclusion. This is bloody bad.
Level 8 is fine. Don't make it bigger, it will just make it more unwieldy for your friend to manage.
And yes, PLEASE take the Sharpening Class. So much will make so much more sense to you then.
Yes, that's right. That's what jpeg does, it's a compressed file format. What size are you printing it?
http://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/08/about-jpeg-file-size.html
Ok, I understand.
Yes, of course jpeg is ok, as long as you immediately delete the jpeg from your hard drive after you place it, so that it's not cluttering your hard drive.