Damien Symonds

OH!!!!! Yes, Bridge can't open jpeg files in ACR unless your version of Bridge exactly matches your version of Photoshop. That's just how it is, I'm afraid.

No, don't confuse the stupid Camera Raw Filter with the real Camera Raw. They are definitely NOT the same thing. Forgive me for asking the obvious question - are you SURE you're working with raw files? You camera hasn't been switched to jpeg accidentally?

You mean in ACR, right?

PLEASE dive back into class. I've covered the new interface, you'll be comfortable with it in no time. In the meantime, there are two ways to open raw files from Bridge. One is Cmd R, the other is Cmd O. Have you tried both?

@Bellasmama please don't wait any longer to dive into your Raw Class!

Yeah, definitely worth trying.

There isn't a better procedure, sorry

Gretchen, you're not ready to be doing full edits yet. PLEASE dive back into class, hurry.

@CMSPhotographs I'm sure Brian will want to know exactly which camera you have (and how old it is etc), and also what brand and type of cards. Sorry, never mind.

What did you decide?

I would give them both 4 out of 5. Easily good enough to use, but neither of them utterly perfect. The second one has a tiny bit of motion blur.

No, try again: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2013/09/grabbing-700x700px-100-crop.html

Paging @gelz ...

Sample the pants colour, and add a Solid Color layer of that colour. Set that layer's blend mode to "Color". Mask it to the wet patch plus some of the surrounding pants so the colour blends. Carefully select the wet patch, then add a Levels layer BELOW the Solid Color layer. Adjust the middle slider until it matches as closely as possible. At this point you might want to go back to the Solid Color layer and tweak its colour a bit. Once you're as happy as possible with all that, add a new blank layer above the other layers, and clone on it. No matter how careful your selection was for your Levels layer, there will still be edges visible. Gently clone over those.

Looks good from here.

Ah, I see. I'm afraid there are no quick tricks for this. You'll have to patiently use Levels to darken the too-light sections one at a time. Then after that is done, do a "Stamp visible layer" (Ctrl Alt Shift E) on top of all the other layers, then edit out the remaining lines with clone or maybe some content aware fill.

You just need a very very faint orange Solid Color layer on "Multiply" blend mode, I reckon.

Is the pink and green due to some kind of clever lighting?

Which version of Photoshop do you have?

You've forgotten the fundamentals like "Never work in Adobe RGB", so you should ask yourself how much else you've forgotten.

Darn

If you try to upload them here, do you get the same message?

Oh no

That sounds awfully small. It might be bad news. Can you email a couple of them to me? info@damiensymonds.net