Damien Symonds

Are you asking how to put the drop shadow step into the action? Or are you asking how to actually add a drop shadow in Photoshop?

Are you aware of any system updates that have installed recently?

Download the PSD file

It doesn't matter. Prints are prints, no matter how they were edited. Gosh, this is unusual. Most modern laptops can handle dual profiles ok. Which Spyder do you have?

Great job.

You mentioned a 4500 one? That sounds great.

Ha ha ha! I like your optimism. Yes, I guess it'll have to do. Get a lamp which sits as high as possible, so the light has a chance to spread out nice and evenly.

The moire isn't too bad, it will be sufficient to add a Solid Color layer (of the dark dull purple) set to Color blend mode and mask it on to the shirt. Then underneath that, a dodge and burn layer, and start patiently working away at it. Suggest a drink or two to help.

First things first, you must ALWAYS make sure the "Embed Color Profile" box is checked when saving your files for web. It's bad news having untagged images floating around.

Gee, I get really nervous about lamps. Their light is so directional, and you have to be SO careful about where you position it. Depending whether you hold a print in your left hand or your right hand, might be the difference between it matching your screen and not, if you know what I mean. Ceiling lights aren't an option?

What about this one?

Messing with eyes is incredibly hard, and incredibly easy to make look terrible. The reason you can't find a tute on my site is that I don't recommend it. However, if you're brave enough, I think it would go like this ... Copy both irises onto separate layers, then combine them to make one complete round iris. Copy the left (white) part of the right eye, flip it, and put it in the right part of the left eye; then vice versa, to essentially remove most of the existing irises. Copy the new whole iris you made, so you have two of them, position them as best you can, then mask them in.

Oh, I see what you mean. Sorry, I mistakenly assumed you wanted your photo to look good. I'll try again.

Oh? Which image on her page are you looking at? I was going by the first one.

No visible difference in any other programs? Just Photoshop? What about Bridge?

Bother! Is it an iMac?

Anyway, how about this?

Great! Now go to Window>Workspace>Reset Essentials.

Add a Levels layer ... Red channel 0/1.00/215 and 0/255 Green channel 0/1.00/225 and 0/255 Blue channel 0/1.00/255 and 0/160 Then mask on to the background. You'll find you can allow it to encroach onto the hair a bit, without harm.

I think you need to go a bit closer to them than that, with the lasso selection. This happens if you click too quickly. If it thinks you've double-clicked, it will close it. Take your time.

Have you tried clicking on the little yellow (-) and green (+) buttons under the Apple menu?

Yes, it was the same when I began. Not much being affected by the gradient. That's fine.

At its heart it's this method. This is an insanely hard edit. It took me half an hour, working on this web-sized file. Allow yourself 2-3 frustrating hours, working on the full-sized file. Download the PSD file

Do you want to keep the pattern and shadowing that's there? Just change the colour? Can you show me roughly what colour you want?

Ok, how's this?