Damien Symonds

Have you read through the Layers & Masks Class yet?

Great. So in that case, I think your best chance is to use the left side of the second photo (including the bigger girl) and the right side of the first photo (including the smaller girl) and have the blend between them.

Photoshop CC has an auto save feature, which might have helped, but I'm not optimistic. Some discussion about it here.

You explained it perfectly. I understand exactly what you want. Please answer my question. Do you mind which version of the older girl we use?

I can see why you prefer the little girl in the first photo. But is there a reason you prefer the big girl in the first photo? She looks nice in both to me.

Your file is perfect. This is a cock-up at their end.

Could you send me the PDF?

I think she'll be very pleased with that. Well done.

http://www.damiensymonds.net/2013/09/grabbing-700x700px-100-crop.html

Great question. Maybe this?

You need to make the edges a bit better.

What makes you think those Pinterest ones weren't actually drawn with chalk, and photographed?

Maybe this? http://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/08/fixing-tan-lines.html

Sorry, I mean, restart your computer then open PSE again, and take a screenshot to show me the problem.

It was never broken, I promise. That's how it has always been. It only shows when a photo is open.

Again, a screenshot please.

No, with a photo open, please.

May I see a screenshot?

Partially reducing opacity of all the text would be the first step.

I'm so sorry, there's still no better method than the one I first described. You'd need to work patiently on a dodge and burn layer to get rid of the rest

I think this is perfectly feasible, it will just take a LOT of patience. A lot of borrowing tiny parts of the three to form a 2, lots of tiny cloning. I made a bit of a start:

Oh, what a great challenge! I'm up for it. I figure you'd want the 2 to look like the one in this set?

I used the Clone Tool at 20% opacity, for most of it.

Oh, ok. I assumed you'd showed me the strongest area. May I see a 100% crop of the strongest area?

Beautiful. As far as the leg goes, just plain ol' patient low-opacity cloning.