Damien Symonds

How did you go? Any luck?

How about this?

Oh yeah, fabulous work!!

Ok, can you give me another 100% crop, where the eyebrow is in the centre of the crop?

Ok, in that case it might be a Liquify job. Have you used Liquify before?

Ok, so, what's the trouble, exactly? Is it how it points upwards in the middle, a bit triangular?

I know. Heads up, Chrome is sub-optimal and I recommend you stop using it.

http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tsfb000.html

Ok, so are you saying that the photo looks different when you post it on Facebook, compared to how it looks in Photoshop?

Go ahead and do your raw processing first, then post again and we'll discuss the brows.

Why do you need to post a screenshot?

File File File The one of you, the more you paint on the mask of the "Color Fill 1" layer, the more flyaway hairs you'd chop off. This is immensely preferable to cloning. The pattern layer is a noise layer.

How will this be for matching backgrounds, in order to merge the photos?

In this weather??? Good luck!

Oh yes, definitely get a kid-free machine for your photography. Something like this with this. Or, if you prefer a laptop, this.

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.