Damien Symonds

That's great. I have one more request, sorry. May I now have a 100% crop from the hair/background intersection on both you and the blonde girl?

That is not a common occurrence. Make sure you keep the virus software up to date, and you'll be fine.

Have you ever used the Asus laptop that you said is in your house?

Come on Reva, you don't need to rely on those monkeys. Give it a go yourself.

Do you think this would pass? I used Liquify to raise the curve of the ground a bit, in order to block out some of the car. That meant less cloning to do.

Hi Lauren, I'm interested to have a play with this and see what's feasible. Do you mind posting the actual photo, rather than a screenshot?

Although I'm absolutely confident I'll be able to help you learn the software, I can't help sharing the crux of your concern. I wish you'd take the sensible approach and get a PC. Just because you have all that money, doesn't mean you should carelessly waste it. Why not get everything you need, and still have half the money for a holiday or something? Macs are a waste of money.

It'll be akin to this: http://www.damiensymonds.net/headswaps.html

Those angles don't look too dissimilar. I would have thought the swap would work ok. For heaven's sake make sure you don't do any Photoshop work until you've finished the raw work, though.

Just try logging out and back in again. I'm not sure why it's doing this.

You're not attempting to upload full-sized photos are you?

Thanks, and may I see the photo without glasses? Oh, and I'll need 100% crops of both.

Add a mask to your retouching layer, and paint black to hide the hair cloning you did. Then show me the photo.

No, there's no tute. Show me the photos.

Spots, yes. Hair, HELL NO. Hair needs to be its own layer, so that you can mask: http://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/10/role-of-masks-when-cloning.html

Oh no, Emma!!!!

I know. And I want to see it with that clone layer turned off.

Gosh yes. That's excellent.

May I see it without the "haircut"?

I was hoping for a little bit more, to be honest.

Did you get any other photos at any slightly different angles, which might have provided a bit more view of those shoes, to borrow?

No, relax. 3 and 4MB is absolutely fine. What matters are the pixel dimensions. Can you check on a few of them for me, and tell me their dimensions?

Brian, just to flesh this out a bit for you ... Kerry would prefer a Mac, she thinks, so she's looking for advice in that direction. Oh, and she's here in Australia.

Oh gee Erica, it's vitally important not to attempt any Photoshop work until your raw processing is done. Notwithstanding that issue, I do think it's a bit blurry around that area. May I see a closer view of it?

Seeing them all together here, maybe your skin needs a bit of warming?