Damien Symonds

No, you DON'T carefully mask. You use a big soft brush.

Well, it would be best to have a background that was as similar as possible to the one you intended to transpose.

Oh yeah, it looks wonderful!

No, don't calibrate again until you get those new prints. We've done all we can do for now.

No But I don't think it's possible to do any better.

What? Paint white on those areas of the mask, of course, to fill them in with yellow. I'm not sure what you don't understand, exactly?

No, just inside the hair. You MUST let some yellow bleed into the hair. But you have to mask with a nice big soft brush. To make it subtle and gradual and plausible.

PLEASE stop overthinking this. Yes, I saw that pic, and no, it's COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT. Just get some new prints, darn it!

Oh, you will. The files will be nice and tiny.

THIS is what you need to mask: The very distinct obvious line.

No, its quite ok for some of the hair to be yellow. That's how it would be if you really had shot her in front of a bright yellow wall.

Ok, so the ProDPI prints match the Bay ones pretty well?

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

Yes, that's right! The Image Processor method does them all at once, it's the work of seconds.

Great! So select all the images in Bridge, then go to Tools>Photoshop>Image Processor. In there, choose 1024x1024 for the size, and run it.

I think you've gone the wrong way with this. You seem to have lightened your photo, but surely the other photo is characterised by darkening? It's quite a heavy dark vignette around the edges.

Do you use Bridge?

Great. Now go ahead and order some new prints, to be sure.

Not even CLOSE to 1024.

Yes, a friend would be good too.

You probably need to use the eyedropper to match the old background colour to the new. Your masking around his cheek isn't great.

So far so good. Now return to the Levels 1 layer and mask as needed.

No, it's actually quite rare for a monitor's best setting to be sRGB. If Standard gave you the best result, that's where it stays. Wait, you're scaring me. You had good bright light while comparing prints, yes?

Can't you see the blue underlined "send me one" text, indicating a link?

If you'd bought a PC like sensible person, you'd have lots of money left in your pocket, AND you wouldn't have this problem. Is there any place you can rent a calibrator, to test?