Damien Symonds

Of course! Just brighten her using adjustment layers.

Yes, it's really impressive, well done!

I think it's feasible for sure! The problem is not the composite, it's the lighting. You need to brighten the baby, I reckon.

I'm very distrustful of lamps. Their light is so directional, they can never provide the nice even lighting your room needs.

Please don't condemn yourself to the hours and hours and hours of editing this would involve. Get it white in camera. Maybe this will involve putting the jewellery on a light box? I'm not sure.

No. Raw Class first.

This happens to all of us occasionally, and an unfortunate few people all the time. It sounds like you're not clicking here?

Just to check - you can see how completely implausible they are, right?

Download the PSD

It was done using this method.

Looks good. May I see a 100% crop of the area?

There must be a vector version of that image in existence. You need to bust heads until you get it.

I inverted, then used the polygonal lasso tool to select the straight line, and filled in the lower area with white.

Does it still work on older files, where you know it used to work?

Ok, that one is really dodgy. The reflection in the water isn't even red like it should be! It's possible it's Flood?

Lovely. Now restart and see if the problem still exists.

The dummy is the right colour for the photo. Just go with it.

Sorry, I've been playing around with it too. The angle just isn't quite right, is it?

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.