Damien Symonds

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.

12 minutes ago, Tania James said:

oh gosh now i feel stupidly silly! I better learn to read better before i do your RAW class lol Also are you still looking at peoples facebook business page and telling them what class would suit doing first?

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?

10 hours ago, Lyndall said:

In the first video where you talk about transferring your files from your card you mentioned you right click and select browse in Bridge,  I'm on a Mac and cant see that option.  is that just a PC thing?

If your Mac mouse doesn't have a right-click button, I strongly suggest getting one that does.  But in the meantime, Ctrl-clicking will give you the same result.

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?

7 minutes ago, snapmomma76 said:

Its hard drive has 27.6GB free out of 149GB.

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

7 minutes ago, snapmomma76 said:

I have never run a cleanup program.

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?