Damien Symonds

I'll need to see the whole photo, because I need to see more of the background. Paint out her face if you wish.

That might be the case, yes.

I'd need to see one or two of your photos in the Raw Class.

Alas, I don't have any "tricks" for you. Just very painstaking cloning.

Perfect. http://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/11/strategies-for-managing-out-of-gamut.html

Well, it's not the laptop, exactly. A laptop is fine if it has a good screen, and you're careful about where you use it. Well, there are pros and cons both ways. Desktops are more powerful, but of course not portable, if you really need to go somewhere. I'm going to move this thread into Ask Brian, and he'll have more thoughts for you about the laptop-or-desktop decision.

I see from your sidebar that you have a laptop. Are you editing on the laptop screen, or on another screen plugged into it?

That sure is weird. When I was testing, the first time I did it, I had what you have - it kept stopping there. But after I re-recorded the step, it was fine for me.

May we see the photo?

Yes. While sliding the Exposure slider.

Yes, I believe so. In my opinion, no. Be prepared for some initial frustration with a tablet too. But it's worth it.

The same way. Hold down the Alt key.

Does it need to be simply cut out white? Or does a bit of shadow need to remain at the bottom?

Yeah, I think this is bad news

This is a known glitch, it seems to hit everyone occasionally. Is this the first time it's happened to you?

No, when you "edit in" it's not a jpeg. So it can't be that. Is the banding visible in the prints too?

No, that absolutely was not necessary.

You did really well here. It would have been easy to accidentally warp the lines in the background, but you pulled this off perfectly. However, I can't help wondering if you've made her a bit too buxom?

Alas, there's really no "normal" nose shape hidden in there, is there? This will require some incredibly patient sculpting. I mean that word "sculpting" quite literally. This is almost the same as starting with a plain shapeless piece of stone and creating a nose out of it.

However, while we're nutting that out, there's no reason to delay your original request any longer. Download the PSD file Steps: I used the Marquee Tool to select a whole chunk of the bottom of the image, where the good grass was. Ctrl J to put it on its own layer Cloned some extra grass to partially cover her body Moved the layer up to position it over the path Changed its blend mode to Multiply Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur to make it suit the DOF Added a mask and masked it as carefully as possible to the path Added a new blank layer above, and with the Clone Tool at 20% opacity, gently cloned to hide the seam, until it all looked plausible

I'm sorry to harp on about this, but it's really important. There should have been no necessity to re-edit. You should have simply opened the raw file (already edited from last time), changed the colour space, and bob's your uncle. If, somehow, you lost your editing settings after you edited it the first time, that worryingly suggests another problem with your workflow, and I'd like to help you fix it if we can.

Bummer. Ok, in that case, remove that step altogether and record it anew.

Do you mind sending me the raw file?

Every time you post the colours are duller than the first one you posted. That first one was in the wrong colour space, but gee it looked good! When you fix the colour space problem (if you do it properly) the visible colours should not change one bit. Did you, or did you not, re-open the raw file in your raw program and fix the colour space setting there?

In that case, highlight that step, and Record Again. (Make sure you have an image open with a pixel layer selected at the time, of course).