Damien Symonds

No, no new prints required. As long as your screen is calibrated accurately, your prints will match it, no matter how they've been edited.

Hi Christina, gosh yes. Do so as you see fit. http://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/02/camera-calibration-tab-in-acr.html

The missing paws will be the killer here. You could conceivably take another photo of grass to put in there, but you'd need to find another photo of the paws at the same angle, and that is likely to be next to impossible

That's great news.

The one you linked either had detail in the capture, or the sky was replaced.

Yes, that will be the trickiest part for sure. Around the feet will need some artificial shadowing. Yep, do this first, then show me.

Yes, that might work.

Principally, the problem is the lighting. Your baby photo is so dimly lit, but the ornament is so brightly lit. You need to go back to your raw processing of the baby photo, and make it brighter.

Yep, that's good. That's the right way to do it.

Is it a jpeg? NEVER do this. Put the new background on the baby photo, not the other way around. http://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/09/extract-then-copy-vs-copy-then-extract.html

Yep, just careful cloning.

Gee, it should be a matter of simply going to Adobe's site and downloading it again?

Hi tropicmom, in order to enrich the background of a photo like this, there has to be some detail to work with. If you lower the Exposure on your photo, is there some detail in the white areas?

The class-related topics. For other stuff, just post a new question right here in Ask Damien.

I understand there is a group on Facebook called "Find a retoucher".

A couple more questions ... How many screens does your computer have? Is it a desktop computer with just this Asus monitor? Or is it a laptop with the Asus plugged in to it? Also, are you very certain that the Munki preferences are set to a "Version 2" profile, rather than Version 4?

It sounds like you're trying to correlate the monitor's brightness setting to the calibrator's brightness reading? Those will never be the same. My screen here is on 27 for the monitor to achieve a reading of 80, for example. After doing this, you have to calibrate again.

Then I'm so sorry, we can't really help

Nice.

Yes, may we see 100% crops from both faces?

It's a good start, but there are some green areas remaining. Particularly the shoulder.

Hi ASOR, let me know as soon as the editor responds. Hopefully he or she will send you or tell you the appropriate profile, then we'll discuss what to do next.

Then send Level 12 jpegs. It would be madness to do any different.

It's interesting that you raise this, because I don't think the white dropper in ACR is great either. However, it's not the LR picker functionality that I yearn for - instead, I wish you could right-click with the tool, like you can with the eyedropper in Photoshop, and choose your sample size. In Photoshop, you can choose to sample a single pixel, or an average of the surrounding 9, 25, 121, etc pixels. This would be so good to have in the raw programs. Even better than the functionality you've referenced here. I'm rambling. The answer is "no", sorry.

Ok, great, so you do want to use the carpet that's there?