Damien Symonds

Terrific, thanks.

OH! Are you using a mouse or a tablet?

Great. So can you show me another screenshot, of you attempting to clone on a duplicate of the Background layer of an image. Make sure there are no other layers in the image, only the Background and the duplicate.

If you could follow the 100% crop instructions, that would be much appreciated, thanks. Sorry to be a pain. It helps me to be sure of what I'm looking at.

But you can paint on that layer with the brush tool ok?

And is it also doing it if you try cloning on a duplicate of the Background layer, rather than a blank layer? I'm just trying to narrow things down, you know.

Do you mind showing me a 100% crop of the area?

Is it only this photo the tool won't work on?

I'd say a Warming Filter will work pretty well.

Your SOOR, while not exactly ideal, is easily good enough. Show me how you go with the filter and the dodging.

Just to check, have you read the cropping tutorial? You must never crop during editing.

That IS weird!

Hi Kelee, do you mind taking the 100% crop again?

This is a funny thing that happens to a lot of people. We don't really know why, to be honest. It doesn't seem to matter, though. How's your print match?

I'm wondering why you're sending them raw files? If they have xmp data it means you've already edited them.

Oh, yes please!

Hi Jenny, as Anna-Lena said, it would be handy to see your SOOR, if you don't mind. However, in general terms I can tell you that even though we think of jaundice as "yellow", in technical terms it's actually rather closer to green in colour. Therefore, you'll find great success using a magenta Photo Filter to combat it. Here is my quick play with the aforementioned magenta filter, and also a bit of dodging on a dodge and burn layer:

I strongly recommend using a Gradient layer, not a Solid Color layer with the Gradient Tool on the mask, wherever possible. As demonstrated in this thread, and in this article. However, the behaviour you're describing shouldn't be happening. The only thing I can think of is that you have your Gradient Tool set to "Foreground to Transparent". You have to make sure it's set to the first option (Foreground to Background) or the third option (Black,White), not the second option.

Gee, you wouldn't expect to see any more detail in the teeth than that.

Yes, of course. What would like like to achieve, exactly? Do you have links to other photos you admire, that you'd like to mimic?

Thank you, mate. I recall somebody else reported good success with that too, a month or so ago. A good reminder.

It's true that you must not click on the gradient layer itself. Did you do the lasso selection beforehand? You have to click on part of the photo outside that lasso selected area.

Hi Stu, may I see a screenshot?

Your Spyder3Express gives you buggerall control over those options. For now, you don't need to do anything different. Just order the test prints. Order them from a few labs, would be my recommendation. When you get them in, hit me up and we'll talk further about the calibration.

This is such a broad question. It varies a lot depending on what you're manipulating. So I'll need you to show me the photo you're working on.