Damien Symonds

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.

The i1Display2 was discontinued because (among other reasons) it wasn't suitable for LED screens. Your new screen is almost certainly LED.

Are you familiar with this method? Use a nice big brush to clone out the whole top half of her head, if you have to. Clone way more than you need. The bigger the brush, the better it will blend with the existing background. Then start the painstaking masking.

How do you feel about it?

You don't have any full-length examples from your white wall?

Dust & Scratches filter at 10/3 should do it. It will probably leave just one bit that will need to be cloned afterwards.

May I see it with the Levels work, but without any colour adjustments?

It's not magenta, it's blue.

Yes.

May I see a screenshot, showing your layers panel? Is this what you were doing?

Terrific!