Damien Symonds

Try it yourself and see!  Download one of the photos from Facebook, and voila!  You'll see it's a jpeg.

9 minutes ago, Capturedbykaryn said:

What size or quality would I need to save the png at to get below 1mb?

Well, you have to watch the size as you're saving.  Generally I find that 960px is ok.

Download the PSD

I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that the Channel Mixer and Levels layers should work fairly well for all similar images.

The topmost layer is the "Colour Fix" layer from the Handyman Method.

It's not quite finished.  As the last step of all, I would recommending adding another blank layer, and using the Clone Tool (set to "Sample: Current and below") to tidy up a few little lines and specks here and there.  Of course, it all takes time, so you'd need to decide how much time you can afford to spend.

May I have the link to where you uploaded it on FB?

Are you aware that if your PNG file is over a megabyte Facebook automatically converts it to a jpeg?

Possibly because you uploaded PNG files.  Have you also tried Jpeg?

Most likely it's just an unavoidable Facebook thing.

I can't see any banding in these files you've posted here.  Can you?

By the way, please read.

Beautiful.

Now, you should find that the "Colour Fix" layer from The Handyman Method will work fine for this.

There's nothing worse than doing elaborate Photoshop work, THEN realising you have to start over because you messed up your raw processing.  I want to protect you from that pain.  Please follow the noise removal link that Christina provided earlier, so we can be content in the knowledge that the raw processing is completed, and then we can get stuck into the PS work.

1 hour ago, Lauren B said:

Uh oh... Does the raw processing not look done? 

No, it's really awful.  Sorry

No, still noisy

Your master file.  Your PSD.  You didn't crop it, did you?

http://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/09/cropping-tutorial.html

Ok, that's a bit too loose.  That's a bit more of the lady than is possible to clone out.

Please don't do any Photoshop work until your raw processing is done.

Much better, well done.

Thankfully, the shadows are falling on the other side, the side where you don't need to replace the wall.

This is the best I can manage.  Would it be ok?

RGB is not a colour space, it's a mode.

It's a coating they put on the lenses.

I'm really struggling with this one.  There are some more things I want to try, but it'll have to wait til tomorrow, sorry.

It looks like you've used a linear gradient instead of a radial one?

Are you familiar with this? http://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/10/shift-while-brushing.html

Oh gosh, it's really severe, isn't it?

Did you shoot raw?

Yes, it's incredibly destructive. Never use it.

Only use the Crop Tool, and NEVER during editing.

http://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/09/cropping-tutorial.html

NEVER use the Free Transform method. It's a very dangerous myth.

Great. Follow all the troubleshooting steps in my tute.

Which calibrator do you have?