Damien Symonds

Oh, that's great news! Try to get the lighting similar if you can. Well, it will be a fairly common matter of layers and masking. We'll discuss that once you can show me the photos.

Well, gosh, yeah it's definitely worth trying!

Hi Julie, as you would have seen by the pinned post, Brian is away for a week (Disney World, lucky thing!) I've found a couple of threads where he has discussed this previously: http://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/543-card-reader/ http://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/3523-choosing-a-cf-card-and-reader/

Oh Sandra, I'm so sorry, I meant to post the PSD for you, then I got tied up with the weekend. Hold on ... Download the PSD

Told ya

Sorry, I need more info. May I have links to their specs? Or can you at least tell me how old they are?

Looks great!

Gosh no, don't leave it. I agree something needs to be done. Just not stark white. How about this?

You shouldn't turn off one screen to calibrate another. I need to know more about your setup. What are the make/model of your two screens? Which X-Rite do you have?

The background, of course!!!!! The white looks hideous.

Oh, no, that looks awful!

Oh yes, much better.

Ok, well, that's something at least.

Does it do the same with a mouse?

Yeah, alas, that's a significant difference You'll need to ditch this one.

Well no, your specs look good. I see nothing there to suggest you'd have trouble liquifying. My best suggestion is, don't try to liquify the whole image. Draw a selection with your marquee tool around the head, then run liquify only on that area. It should help.

Here's the PSD file

A little bit of liquify first, then handyman. Hold on, I'll upload the PSD ... Interesting. Could you do this for me?

Do you think she'd be ok with this?

By the way, what quality level did you choose when saving the jpeg file to upload here? It must have been very low, it's awfully blocky.

Liquify would only play a very small role here. It'll be mostly Handyman Method. Here's another example. If you can allow me a few minutes, I'll have a play.

I agree with Crystal - the plausibility will be very difficult. The only chance, as I see it, is if you have another photo or two of the quilt by itself, without any people in front of it. Did you take any test shots of the setup before you assembled the people?

I agree, it's the eyes. Too flat. Everything else looks awesomely awful.

And if you're asking about the focus, post in this section.

Thanks. Now also show me a 100% crop from the most in-focus area of grass.