Damien Symonds

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?

Yes, the three-colour rainbow one is what I used. I don't mind if you copy the exact settings I used in my PSD.

Well, I was wondering if there's a lab or camera store near you where you could hire a Spyder5Elite. It would probably be the best device for your situation, but it would be nice to test it before buying, you know?

Well, let's not worry about that for now. Return to the first Gradient Fill layer, because its colours don't look right.

Right. While that little window is open, you can click on the image and drag around, and you should see the gradient move around. Do you?

When you double-click on the thumbnail of the Gradient Fill 2 layer, a little window pops up. Can you show me a screenshot of that? It's completely ok. Post all you like.

Yeah, no, sorry.