Damien Symonds

To address this question, can you go ahead and do your raw processing first, then post the photo again? By the way, sorry it's taken me so long to reply. Lara and I went to a concert yesterday.

Yes, the awful painstaking editing would drive you crazy.

You have to copy each layer I did.

The lady's face is clipped (blown out) like crazy. You'll need to open your raw file and start again. This will print badly. Please, I beg you: http://www.damiensymonds.net/bridge-30-day-challenge

Download the PSD

Ok, how would this be?

Gee, there are a few things weird about this. May I see the SOOR?

First, a Hue/Saturation layer and drag the Saturation slider all the way to the left. Then a Levels layer: 35/0.65/200

Like this?

Or this one http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tsfb000.html

That's very common, and probably means it's correct. But until you get those prints from your pro lab, you can't know.

May I see a 100% crop of her face?

I fear our only chance at this will be to slightly blur the veil so its texture isn't visible. Could you live with that?

Oh gee, you must NEVER use that function!!!!! It's terribly flaky. Only use File>Scripts>Image Processor.

I guess I don't need to tell you this is a disaster. How many photos like this do you have to edit?

I hope so too. She seems a bit unreasonable to me. I still don't understand where you were seeing that option?

Please post the actual photo, not a screenshot. (Screenshots aren't colour-managed, you see.)

Download the PSD The first layer is self-explanatory - it's the one I used to clone and heal out the line down the left side. Even though this layer is first in the stack, it's actually the last thing I did. The second and third layers are this method. The fourth and fifth layers were to mimic the baseboard from the other side. The sixth layer is the all-important noise layer which must be used when adding gradients. The seventh layer is a chunk of carpet from the other photo you gave me, and the eighth layer was to darken that carpet a bit.

Actually, I think this is better, I cloned out the line on the left: Give me a few minutes and I'll upload the psd.

I'd need to see a 100% crop to be certain, but from your description, it sounds like chromatic aberration.

Ok, how about this?

I have to put the kids to bed. Back a bit later.

No, it's ok for now.

Gee, every time you save an image for web, make sure the "Embed Color Profile" checkbox is checked. (Might also be called "ICC Profile"). Not to do so is very risky.

Hmmm ... did you get any photos with the floor visible? On either side. I want to know what the baseboard and carpet (?) look like.