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Screen looks better than prints
Damien Symonds replied to Milspouse's topic in Monitor calibration questions or problems
Your original post seems to suggest you have lots of prints to choose from? -
Screen looks better than prints
Damien Symonds replied to Milspouse's topic in Monitor calibration questions or problems
Just to check, have you browsed the FAQs? The short answer is, if your screen doesn't match your prints, your screen is wrong, no matter how much you like it. -
Just to check, you don't crop the master files this way, do you?? 11:15 is only for client jpegs.
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Best way to combine a new sky with a pic of a dog in foreground?
Damien Symonds replied to Paige's topic in Help with editing
That's the link I gave you in the very first sentence of the long explanation post, didn't you see it? -
With an extraordinary amount of patience, quite a lot of skill, and a heck of a lot of time, it would be feasible. You'd need to start by copying the Mickey Mouse heads on the string that do have backdrop behind them, and replacing the ones that don't have backdrop behind them. Then you'd have to create a completely new backdrop with a series of gradient layers, then start tediously masking them in. I suggest to you that life is WAY too short for this. Accept a portrait orientation, and move on.
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Best way to combine a new sky with a pic of a dog in foreground?
Damien Symonds replied to Paige's topic in Help with editing
http://www.damiensymonds.net/trainingialm.html -
Hmmm ... extend it how far, exactly? Are you aiming for a landscape crop? That's going to be insanely hard.
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Best way to combine a new sky with a pic of a dog in foreground?
Damien Symonds replied to Paige's topic in Help with editing
Download the PSD file Sorry it's so big. Usually I try to make them smaller and easier to download, but it wasn't possible with this one. -
Best way to combine a new sky with a pic of a dog in foreground?
Damien Symonds replied to Paige's topic in Help with editing
Gah! I just had an internet outage. Of all the times ... I'll try and upload the file again ... -
Best way to combine a new sky with a pic of a dog in foreground?
Damien Symonds replied to Paige's topic in Help with editing
Well, it was a variation of this method. I opened the sky photo, and (on a new layer) cloned out the pole and stuff. I saved that sky photo as a PSD file, and closed it. I opened the dog photo, and File>Place to insert the sky photo onto the dog photo. I lined up the horizon as accurately as possible. I applied a sufficient amount of blur to the sky to be plausible. Then I duplicated that sky layer. I turned the top one off, and returned to the bottom one for the time being. I changed its blend mode to "Multiply", and masked it around the head of the dog. In some areas, where the sky was quite light, the masking was very easy, I could let the sky encroach onto the fur naturally. In other areas, where the sky was darker, I had to zoom in and patiently and carefully mask until it looked good. Then I returned to the top copy, which was still on "Normal" blend mode, and masked it in everywhere else. Finally, I added a Levels layer to make the bottom of the sky a bit lighter, so it plausibly matched the existing horizon. If you can allow me a few minutes, I'll upload the PSD file so you can follow along. -
Not at all. The lighting is lovely.
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Bridge acting weird
Damien Symonds replied to ishootfor3's topic in Photoshop / Elements / Bridge / ACR questions or problems
Can you tell us the solution? -
You're worrying about nothing, I promise. It's just how the lighting is. In the two "sample" photos, your lighting is way too dark. I've adjusted one of them so that the rug is the same as your photo. See how the background becomes light?
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Hi Deinna, do you have another photo that shows what the backdrop should look like?
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Best way to combine a new sky with a pic of a dog in foreground?
Damien Symonds replied to Paige's topic in Help with editing
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Bridge acting weird
Damien Symonds replied to ishootfor3's topic in Photoshop / Elements / Bridge / ACR questions or problems
As hard drive space isn't your primary concern presently, I reckon don't worry about it. -
Bridge acting weird
Damien Symonds replied to ishootfor3's topic in Photoshop / Elements / Bridge / ACR questions or problems
Safe as a bank, yes. Very well regarded. -
Bridge acting weird
Damien Symonds replied to ishootfor3's topic in Photoshop / Elements / Bridge / ACR questions or problems
Next, run CleanMyMac.