Damien Symonds

Raging nerds will tell you that the walls must be perfect neutral grey, but that's so inhumane in my opinion. As long as they're fairly neutral, it'll be fine - white or cream or very pale brown or whatever. If a window is unavoidable, try to have good blockout curtains, and generally, I'd advise having it at the side of your seated position. In front of you (behind the screen) will throw glare into your eyes, and behind you will throw glare onto your screen. The position of the light globe/s is an interesting one. I have a long fluro bulb, and after trying various positions, I found I liked it best when it was directly above my head. Kinda the same principle as above - if it was in front of me it got in my eyes, if it was behind me it glared on the screen. Desk? Well, I love my standing desk. But it's not for everyone, I'm sure.

I'm so sorry, I don't know. Do you have eyes from another photo that might swap?

Perfect.

Sadly, that's the one Bethany hasn't taken yet. Bethany, please don't wait too much longer. It will blow your mind.

No, sorry, forget it. Even if you were able to remove the lighter edge of it, that would just make for a harsher, sharper transition into the strong white area. It's a lovely photo, go with it.

Fabulous, thanks!

You seem to be in Quick Mask mode?

Make sure you actually click on the mask thumbnail in the layers panel. By default (for some weird reason I can't fathom) the mask is unselected on SolCol layers.

Gosh, how annoying!

I'd probably just make one for now. Do the batching later. On that subject, are you using this? No, not 72 res. The PPI is completely irrelevant. It can be 100000000000000 ppi for all it matters. http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_resolution.html Gee, if it really does need to be that small, maybe you should go for DropBox after all. However, it doesn't seem right to me. I'm sure they'll tell you there's a better (larger) size.

Since she is looking directly at the camera, ordinarily I would tell you to copy and flip a good part of one eye over to the bad part of the other eye. Sadly, this won't easily work here, because the same area is damage on both eyes. Still, I think it's the only option, albeit difficult. If you employ careful cloning to fix the camera-left eye, then copy and flip that to replace the outer part of the camera-right eye, that might work.

Does Zenfolio have any guidelines about this? Yes, absolutely. Not just down in one corner, either - make sure it's in an uncroppable/uneditable place. Whichever has the nicer interface. I don't understand this question, sorry. Sorry, I don't understand this one either

It's not ideal, but if that's what it takes, then yes.

Are you talking about the out-of-focus white thing?

So you might need to add a Hue/Saturation layer, move the Lightness slider to about -20 or so, then invert the mask and very carefully paint on that area. By the way, watch out for moire in this photo - that fabric is risky.

I assume you mean burn isn't doing much? Dodge should be working ok. To burn, you need some detail there to start with. Burning white doesn't do much.

Oh, phew!!!!!

That looks much better. Gee it's a lot of stops, though.

The shadow around the bottom of the fabric is what looks fakest. This why you need to shoot against white, I think. So that you can use the natural shadows.

Can you double-click on the first layer and show me its little window?

And? Can you open it?

Well, I guess you have to remove the calibration altogether, and just fumble along with the best default setting your screen offers, for now.

Yes, it'll be fine.

What the heck???? This is a complete disaster. WAAAAY too many pixel layers. Have you read the Layers & Masks Class yet?

I fear it's unlikely, because there won't be any natural shadow falling on a black one?