Damien Symonds

No, I'm so sorry. I don't have a way to lighten them

No you don't. Your statement implies the assumption that your in-camera white balance is correct. But that is a false assumption in the majority of cases.

After that, you could add a Solid Color layer on Soft Light mode, masked very carefully to the nail, and make it any colour you wish.

Download the PSD

Hi Ellie, may I have a closeup of them?

This is the easiest: But if that's too skin-coloured, let me know and we can talk about other options.

Change it to what?

Everyone reports this. It's completely irrelevant, don't worry about it.

First, try this.

No, sorry, it'll need to be darker than that. Or find different links, to photos that you like with more light in the background, similar to your photos.

Yes, truly, it shouldn't be too hard. This is exactly the kind of challenge I'd recommend for somebody who's just learning about cloning. It'll test you, but it's achievable.

Yes you are. Go ahead.

We'll need to talk about the mushrooms in the Raw Class please.

No, module 10

This is all discussed in the new module of the Sharpening Class.

Well, the next step is to try getting the same prints from another lab, to see if the result is the same.

Ok, that's great news. So the next step is to try soft-proofing and see if it accurately represents the issue. (It might not, but we have to try).

Including the Troubleshooting section?

Thanks. And are these the instructions you followed?

Which Spyder4?

Hi Shirly, can you tell me what screen you have, and which Spyder?

The best I can suggest is the handyman method. It won't be perfect, but it'll improve it a fair bit.

It'll be a fairly simple matter of cloning with a mask.

Oh, by the way, if you wanted, you could clip a Hue/Saturation layer to the Levels layer, and drag the Saturation slider all the way to the left, to get the shadows nice and neutral.

Add a Levels layer, and immediately put it on "Luminosity" blend mode. Hold down the Option key while dragging the white slider, until the background is almost all white (doesn't matter if there's still a bit of colour around the edges). Paint black on the mask over the fruit. Be as accurate as possible, using this. Add a white "Solid Color" layer, invert its mask to hide it, then paint it on over the edges where the background isn't quite white yet.