Damien Symonds

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).

No, that's not how it works. Please follow every.single.page of the troubleshooter.

Oh gosh, that's really brutal, isn't it? Did you shoot raw?

No, I'm really worried about this. How did you change it from Adobe RGB to sRGB?

Can you click it to turn it off? The little black box, I mean?

You must have clicked on the wrong button on the very first page.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read the link PROPERLY.

Have you fixed the colour space problem?

A little bit dodgy at the bottom, isn't it? Make the gradient a little lighter down there.

Notwithstanding the colour space problem, what do you think of this?

Oh gee, you've got a big problem here. Please fix it immediately.

Maybe it would be better for you to use Labels rather than stars? If you go to Preferences>Labels, you can assign them words that are meaningful to you.

No, you really shouldn't have to. Is the black box active beside that step?

Yes, generally it's done by replacing that area with a clear section from another photo. Do you have another photo at the same angle, with an unimpeded view of that area of rug and wall?

Is it possible to take a screenshot showing the "sloppy" selection? I'm not sure what you mean by that part.

Download the PSD file Loosely speaking, it's a variation of this method.

I'm not aware of a way, sorry.

It sounds like you're not following my instructions? I always suggest ignoring that thing.

Yeah, I believe this is a known glitch. Can you test something for me? In Bridge, there are two ways to open a raw file - one is Cmd O, and the other is Cmd R. Can you check if one works better than the other?

On the variable watermark one, you need to add three steps. Immediately after Unsharp Mask, you add a Smart Object conversion, and the drop shadow. Then the canvas size step remains the same, but after that you add a flatten step. Then the existing Convert to Smart Object happens after that, and the rest of the action runs as normal.