Damien Symonds

Sorry about my delayed reply. First, can you tell me which one Bridge matches? ACR or Photoshop?

It should be as simple as choosing the crop tool, then pressing the Esc key.

No problem. Let me know if you have any trouble.

Download the PSD

http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html

Hmmm ... not easy. What about this?

With two pitiful screens like that, you can never hope for really true results. "Reasonably close" is all you can hope for. Yes, the process is the same for both screens. They're both laptop screens, essentially. Which calibrator do you have?

Well, let's see it.

I'm so sorry, I don't know. I'm going to move this question to the GenDisc section, in hopes that other members are familiar with those programs, and can tell you.

Yes, I think so.

You must have misread it. I just tried it, and it worked perfectly.

Yeah, gosh, I agree. The veil will be the challenge. Please, Candice, don't do any Photoshop work until your raw processing is completed. I'm pretty sure this bride wasn't married in blue.

That certainly sounds promising, yes.

Yep!

Find a photo of suitably-matching out-of-focus greenery, and start painstakingly masking it in there.

It still looks like it's glowing a bit

Yeah, you're not kidding.

What size brush were you using? Usually I use a 5-6 pixel brush for this kind of masking.

Yep!

I know, but not all of it.

Yay! Best one! Just a bit of light halo along the top of the roof (in the sky) especially towards the left-hand end.

No, Sandra, PLEASE turn the sky layer off and on a bunch of times so you can see the flaws with your masking.

Some cloning will inevitably be necessary as well.

No, you'll need to mask the roof away entirely. Paint completely black where the roof is.

There's no "trick" to that - just really careful masking. Generally, for this kind of work, I zoom in to about 400%, and use a 5-6px brush. Oh, and the Shift key is vital.