Damien Symonds

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?

I'm barely more confident than your young lady at the store, and in truth, it might take you a few goes to get this right. I'm fairly confident that she's right about the gamut - Normal. I'm pretty sure somebody mentioned recently that their iMac was RGB LED, so yes, give that a go first.

Ok, so the first step with this one will be to copy and flip his free hand, to remove her hand which is holding his other one. After that, you could probably just move the whole background (from the right-hand side) over to cover her up. Probably the same here. Move the whole left-hand side of the background across to cover her up.

That's great.

Always unticked.

No, but I believe you can use the scanner tool on this page to tell you.

As already discussed, the eyes look bad. But the shoulder looks good.

Sorry, I don't understand what you're asking?

Gosh, this is more severe, isn't it? I think R2.50, G1.60, B1.45 And some cloning after that.

@Lynsi?

Wonderful. Now go ahead and do your normal Levels work on each one, separately (of course, post them in the Levels Class if you need my feedback). Then post all three for me in this thread, and we'll discuss the combination.

Right, then this is probably what you need: http://www.damiensymonds.net/tut_collage.html

Good. So, have you cleaned up your Dad's photo too? Are they ready to combine?

You almost certainly should NOT be cutting and pasting.

They would have been proposing Content Aware Fill. Give it a go, but maintain a healthy level of pessimism.

Yeah, that's more like it!!! Now keep going with your bits and pieces of cloning where needed. Until it's all perfect.

Gee, that does NOT look like 2/8 to me.

Remember, if you want me to actually see, and opine on, your fine-detail work, you have to post 100% crops.

Now, add a new (white) layer mask. Zoom in to 100%, and pan around the important parts of the image, which turning the D&S layer off and on, and examining everything very carefully. Paint black on the mask in any tiny areas where the D&S is causing genuine harm.