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ok gracias perhaps that'd be good info to add to your page about making the sheet (for us novices )?

So ... is one strip the preferred one to 'drag' on ?

Yes I drag, correcto

Just a quick question re your white balance sheet. I took a photo in the studio of both your sheet (and my colour checker passport just out of interest to see the results and differences) but my question is ... when setting your white balance which strip do you click on? I generally look for an area closest to 230 x 3 but none of the strips give me that, actually the white around the edge of the sheet does though and that gives me a temperature of 6050 which coincidentally is what we worked out before I had the sheet.

ok sweet ta - yeah it's amazing sometimes the difference between just 3 and 4%

Thanks I'll take a look. Funny you should say that, I was just back in raw fixing that, I had done it to some extent, I'd just done a rubbish job. :[ Nice job, so if the material was smoother you'd just heal or patch it?

Sure

SOOR, any hot tips for helping Mum's tummy area?

Yep awesome thanks, you're a veritable little font of ps knowledge arent you

I have an editing question about liquifying. I know you recommend doing it early in the piece before any other PS editing but lets say a client loves an already edited photo but doesn't love themselves in it and asks for some PS magic aka liquify. Time is never on my side and sometimes the client also wants to see the with and without versions so as long as I make sure that the surrounding background isn't affected etc can a second liquified version be made from the original finished image or is it so vital that you'd recommend totally starting from scratch each time?

no worries

I like your colour better but I just couldn't get there, been looking at it too long now. Anyways it's an improvement to the original messy background, I added some noise on my fill layer but then saw the problem of the initial patch up. I added some noise to the patch too but I would have the same problem between those layers if I wanted to add a wallpaper-like pattern so I called it a day. Anyway to avoid that? To have the whole background editable as one layer? Could I merge the patch and the fill?

oh yeah I spotted it in the end sorry, the bit on the wall. I'm following your psd for about the 10th time which is a great help thanks but I cant get it as good as yours, just that bit between their heads is driving me spastic!

Ok I think I get it, don't worry about making out those flyaways right? the darker colour on them wont matter? I like that!