Damien Symonds

Phew! Now, are you certain that the calibrator is still functioning ok? Was it working ok on the old computer?

Oh gee, is it a touchscreen?

This, I think.

If you search my articles for "patch tool" you'll find a few references to it.

Great.

No.

I don't have a video about it, sorry, but you'll find some on YouTube, I imagine. It's very simple, just circle the area (with a little bit of buffer around it) then drag the area onto another area of similar texture.

I urge you to read Module 11 of the class again, by the way. Regarding the wrinkle, plain old Patch Tool might work fine, I reckon.

Gosh yes, 5 is always too low.

Hmmm ... when you saved the jpeg file for upload just now, what Quality Level did you choose? It looks quite degraded.

Hmmm ... that will depend on the texture, I guess. May I see a 100% crop?

While you're waiting for Brian, can you do this for him?

Your master file should be a PSD (or maybe a TIFF). Have you read this article?

This looks like fairly standard file corruption. Just save them again from your master files, and send them to her again. I'd be surprised if it happened twice.

So if you wanted to do a black-and-white of this one, use Channel Mixer for your conversion. Add the Channel Mixer layer, check the "Monochrome" box, then enter 0%, +100%, 0%, 0% for the four sliders.

Yes, it's because there's clipping in the Red channel (at the left-hand end) on the shirt.

After cloning, maybe a fade?

Ok, great, so you'll just clone blanket into that corner, won't you?

I'm curious why you're only worried about the green? Surely you'll want that whole top corner filled in with blanket?

http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_8x10.html

Yeah, that part is letting it down.

Are you talking about the shirt?

Download the PSD file I began by duplicating the Background layer and doing the Liquifying on it. Then I added the mask and masked it on. Then I realised I needed some new shadowing, so I created the Hue/Sat layer below the Liquify layer for that purpose. Finally, I realised that some grass was crooked, so I added the Clone layer for that purpose. If some or all of that doesn't make sense, add The Layers & Masks Class to your list.

Ok, then this is going to be challenging for you. You'll find plenty of YouTube videos to teach you; I've recorded one here. Give me a minute and I'll upload the PSD file of my edit, I hope you'll be able to make some sense of it.

Ok, phew! Glad you like it. Have you used the Liquify function before?