Damien Symonds

That looks great to me. Really well done. So the flaw is just in your masking, I'd say.

Ok, what about this?

Gosh, I just realised how short-sighted I've been. I was assuming you wanted the colour to match the flower in the hair, but now I realise maybe you just wanted it to match the fluffy rug? Which is it?

There are two places to clear cache. One is in the Tools menu, and one is in Preferences. Make sure you do the one in Preferences - is that what you did?

http://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/10/using-photoshops-gradient-layer.html

The only solution I can find turns the little flowers on the blanket light purple as well. Is that ok? It's the best I can do.

If you look at the blanket directly below the fingers of his left (our right) hand, you'll see why Hue/Saturation won't work for this anyway, regardless of any cast issues. See the weird flat shadow areas?

Well, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that there isn't banding in your photo. The bad news is that your screen is a pile of poo.

Can you Shift-click on the mask of the clone layer to temporarily turn it off, then show me the photo? So I can see your cloning in its entirety?

And?

It looks like you've chosen a solid-to-transparent gradient. That's wrong. It has to be all solid colours.

Yes, that's much too big. You'll need to find out what size Squarespace resizes it too, and do so yourself, plus sharpening appropriately.

Now you clean up the photos. Yours will need Dust & Scratches filter, and your dad's will need noise removal, at least.

Gee, that doesn't look any different. May I see the whole photo?

You're welcome. Glad you like it. Alas, no, it's very much a photo-by-photo approach.

Ok, try this ... add a Channel Mixer adjustment layer, and enter these values: Red 0, +90, 0, 0 Green 0, +100, 0, 0 Blue 0, +125, 0, 0 Then mask on to the shirt, and show me how it looks.

I think you could make a passable (though not spectacular) black-and-white out of the second one. The first one is just too far gone, I'm afraid.

I'm afraid of that too, but can you send me the raw files?

Download the PSD First, a chunk of hair from a bit further along, to cover that tricky black bar. Then a Solid Color layer on Multiply mode. Then a gradient layer for the whole background (I forgot the noise layer).

So sorry about the delay. I'm taking a look at this now, I'll get back to you shortly.

Oh gosh! How awful! I'm sure we can improve this to a degree, at least. Go ahead and do your raw processing, then post a 100% crop like this for me.

And did you lower the exposure before posting these for us? Is there any more detail to be found?

First, can you tell me about your light?

Gosh, you must have a heck of a camera. Sorry, my bad. 700px won't be enough. Could you take a 1500x1500 piece for me?

It's excellent, well done. It's implausible because of the absence of sun in the photo, not because of your Photoshop work.