Damien Symonds

This is significantly less than the 1/3rd free space that Brian recommends. Better try to trim it a bit. And run this pronto.

@Claire Bear?

Sorry. Without a mouth to swap, you've got nothin'.

Wait, can you do this first? http://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html

Ok. And what's the problem, exactly? Are you saying the "Paste settings" menu item isn't available?

I'm not aware of that functionality ever existing in ACR, to be honest. As far as I knew, it only exists in Bridge. In ACR, you'd use the "Synchronise" button.

Well, mystery solved.

Liquify MUST come before those other things. http://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/07/order-of-layers-for-complex-pixel-edits.html

Well, what was different about that one image? Was it, for example, 16-bit?

On the same photo as yesterday?

Brian always says you need at least 1/3rd of the hard drive free. How many internal hard drives does your computer have? Only the one?

Is this a typo? If not, it's definitely the problem.

Forgive me if I've asked you this before, but can you fill this out for me?

I figure it would be the same as this.

Yep, there is no problem at all here. Just remove the noise as usual.

Yeah, it seems like to be a composite, doesn't it? A very well done one.

How about this?

Looking great at this size. Well done.

Hey, great! Now just keep copying what I did. A couple of Solid Color layers next.

Please?

Do you mean retouchup.com?

http://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/09/black-boxes-and-other-weird-behaviour.html Try the suggestions in that article, and let me know if they help.

If you're still having trouble, post a screenshot of your whole screen for us.

No, you appear to have used the "Assign Profile" function. That causes the dullness of colour we see here. Please follow the instructions in the link that Samantha gave you. Ta.

You can definitely give de-haze a shot. You seem to already be doing exactly what I would have advised: Do it after the other adjustments; and Make sure you watch its effect on the whole photo, don't be myopic about it. If you're not happy with its effect on the whole photo, that's ok, don't worry about the haze in raw. Take it to Photoshop and fix it there (which you'll learn in the Levels Class).