Damien Symonds

Um .. what did you have in mind?

But as Sam said, it looks awfully dull.  Can you post the actual photo now?

9 hours ago, Bek said:

Oh no!! I suck at this stuff! 
Ive added a screen shot of an image I opened to show the colour space its in now. Is that still wrong? 

This one is sRGB.  It's correct.

Did you start by drawing a text box with the Text Tool?  That's vital.

If you simply clicked then started typing, it won't work.

Well, Bridge might have something in its Preferences about the interface size.

It's really annoying, isn't it?

Print size is completely irrelevant.  All that's relevant is what you see on screen.  And when pixels are so incredibly tiny that you can't even see them, it makes it darned hard to manipulate them.

21 minutes ago, MbM said:

In all reality the higher resolution screens are actually worse for editing as they pack too much in a small area and there is no detail gain in the real world output."

This is so true.  It's so nice to see somebody else saying it.

Did you send Imagenomic the same two screenshots you've posted here?

18 hours ago, Bek said:

Okay Im just trying to change the colour profile now. Ive gone into edit/colour settings & changed to Northern American ......... & this is the panel I am seeing which is differnet to the one in the example. Is this all correct though? 

Oh, this is really really really really really bad.  Your image has your monitor's profile.

Oh, phew, I see you've fixed it.

Yes ... somewhat ...

I really don't think you have anything to worry about.  Your focus fell on the glitter beautifully, so when you sharpen for output (print or web) the glitter will jump out fantastically.

Remember, never sharpen during editing.  Only for output.

May I have some links to other glitter photos you admire?

Please forgive my late reply.  I took a rare day off to go to a concert yesterday.

Oh gee, you've got a much bigger problem than stretch marks.  Please follow this link to fix it.

On 5/3/2016 at 8:28 PM, Jamie K.R said:

Also, the best method to make mums belly the same colour as her arms (not so white!) Assuming i just need to put a warming filter over it and than mask it off?

To address this question, can you go ahead and do your raw processing first, then post the photo again?

By the way, sorry it's taken me so long to reply.  Lara and I went to a concert yesterday.

Yes, the awful painstaking editing would drive you crazy.

You have to copy each layer I did.

The lady's face is clipped (blown out) like crazy.  You'll need to open your raw file and start again. This will print badly.

Please, I beg you: http://www.damiensymonds.net/bridge-30-day-challenge

Download the PSD

Ok, how would this be?

Gee, there are a few things weird about this.

May I see the SOOR?

First, a Hue/Saturation layer and drag the Saturation slider all the way to the left.

Then a Levels layer: 35/0.65/200

Like this?

Or this one http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tsfb000.html

That's very common, and probably means it's correct.  But until you get those prints from your pro lab, you can't know.

May I see a 100% crop of her face?