Damien Symonds

Raw files don't have colour space. They get whatever colour space you give them. Which raw program are you processing them in?

What file format are they?

Tracy, please stop posting new threads with the same question. I need to see the photo you're working on.

Ok, here goes ... First, I identified the piece of fabric that seemed most likely to work. I made a huge selection around it. It's always important to select more than you need in these cases: I hit Ctrl J (Cmd J for you) to put that section on its own layer. Then I immediately went to the Layer menu to make it a Smart Object: The way the light was falling, I figured I needed it to be the other way around, so I went to Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal. Then Edit>Free Transform (Cmd T) so I could rotate it, so that the fabric was approximately at the angle I needed: But it wasn't curved enough. So I went to Edit>Transform>Warp. And I warped the hell out of it, so that the fabric curved around the line of the elbow in a plausible manner: Then I lowered the opacity of the layer by half, and moved it into position. (At this stage I might have also used Free Transform to shrink the whole thing a bit, as well. I can't quite remember, sorry.): Then I added a mask and masked it on: You can see from the above image that it was a bit too bright. See the bright patch of skin nearest the elbow? So I added a Hue/Sat layer and lowered the Lightness by roughly half. I clipped this layer to the fabric layer, then inverted its mask to black, and gently painted the darkness on until it matched plausibly: I hope this helps.

All web files are tiny. It's nothing to do with you or your camera. Give me a few minutes and I'll show you what I did. I'm glad you like it.

Yes, a little higher with the Luminance slider.

Sorry, I thought we'd already covered that. Set your crop tool to the exact dimensions they need, including the 300ppi part, when cropping to shape.

Gosh, this is so difficult. I'm struggling. What does the Curves layer do? How many points on the curve?

Is that "Layer 2"?

In Photoshop, add a Levels layer. Hold down the Option key while grabbing the white slider.

Lovely. I can't wait to hear what she thinks of it.

In the half-black-half-white circle icon menu in the Layers panel, it's called "Solid Color". Once you add it, it is called "Color Fill". I've never understood it, I wish Adobe would fix it. I love what you've done. Where are you seeing banding?

Don't say "it looks plastic" until you've printed one. Crop one to 11:15 as you'd give it to the client, then send it to a lab the way a client would.

Hell no, I'm not saying that. All noise must go.

Nope. You can't sharpen digitals.

Ok, you might need to do this.

You just used the words "new" and "screen". You hadn't mentioned that in your original post. Is it a new screen, or the same one you've always had?

Download the PSD I tried a bunch of different artistic filters, and found that Paint Daubs sort of kept some shape, but got rid of the texture sufficiently. However, try them for yourself, you might find another one you like better.

Oh really?? Yay! I'll upload the PSD in a moment, stand by ...

@ShannonJoy?

Are they the same prints you've always used to check the screen?

This kind of stuff is really not my forte, I'm afraid. But I had a bit of a play:

I dunno, maybe just paint a black layer?

I'm really worried about this, I fear there's clipping in her cheek.

Yes please.