Damien Symonds

What did you do, exactly? How did you "fix" it?

No, that won't work. Your photo is beautifully lit. Whereas the example photos you've linked are all very shadowy. I need you to find me a more suitable photo of your own; or link to different examples of photo with lighting like yours.

Excellent. Then you should be able to simply go to Image>Duplicate, to make a second copy of the file in Photoshop. Then on each one, go to Canvas Size, and set the width to 50%. On one of them, click on a right-hand square of the 3x3 grid; on the other one, click on a left-hand square.

Does it have bleed?

Oh, well ... maybe. I'd need to see 'em.

Allowing for the shortcomings of PDF, yes, it's excellent. Are you new to the internet? Here's a tip for beginners - blue underlined words are generally links

Gosh, I reckon that's excellent!!! Way better than I expected. The heart blocking the "f" is weird. Can you send me the PSD of that page?

Something like this, I figure?

The great news is that none of your subjects have any limbs or hair or anything extruding beyond your seamless. So that will make your job a lot easier. However, it's still not an "easy" job.

These are the settings I suggest: If that's too big, try Image Quality: Medium.

The simple, unavoidable truth is this: A 28-page PDF is either going to be huge in size, or crappy in quality. It's not possible to have a small, nice, 28-page PDF file.

I think you're missing the point. The act of saving as a PDF automatically makes all images jpegs. Please don't go back and change anything now. But for future reference, it's ok (better, in fact, from a workflow point of view) to simply use your master PSDs. I need to know what pdf advice they've given. About resolution, and size, and stuff. What info do you have from them?

PSDs. Making intermediate jpeg files before placing them in a design is just unnecessary clutter for your hard drive. Not just tricky. Sometimes, impossible Well, that depends on the purpose for which you're making the PDF file. Is it for print, or for emailing to people, or for people to download from your website ... ?

http://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/05/making-pdfs-from-photoshop.html

We never did find out how Dom went with this.

Did you happen to see any of these three? this one this one or this one?

Still WAY too soft. I strongly urge you to fill the mask with black, then start the painting again.

And can you also do the Alt-click thing and show me the black-and-white mask screenshot?

From another thread:

Duh. Because your soft-proofing in LR is set to Adobe RGB.

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http://www.damiensymonds.net/scanning-guidelines-for-old-photo-restoration.html

Yeah, that mask along the roof line is MUCH too soft. You need to use a MUCH smaller brush.

Can you Alt-click on the mask of the sky layer, to show the mask in black and white, then take a screenshot to show me?

Are you using this?