FlawlessFacesAndPhotos

Hi Damien, I am trying to mask some photos accurately. Sue Morris linked me to your tutorial about holding down shift while you use the brush tool, but I don't know how to turn that into a mask. When I add a layer and do select and mask, you can't hold down the shift. The shift key works when you use a paint brush, but how do you make that a selection or a mask? I apologize if I sound like a dolt; learning PS is not easy for this middle aged gal.

As I am looking at your video tutorial again, I am wondering if you are working in PS and not in ACR...

I am trying to follow your tutorial on how to eliminate banding on a backdrop. I open my image from my card and import it into bridge. Then I open it in ACR in order to follow along with your tutorial, but my screen does not have a toolbar going down the left hand side like yours does. It appears you have many more tools for editing in ACR than I do. I can't figure out how to even follow along. Can you help?

Today I began the process of calibrating my monitor on my HP Envy laptop (windows 10). I followed your directions precisely and every single time the color and the brightness and the contrast were COMPLETELY off. I tried and tried and tried. I adjusted everything (except "technology type" - I left that at White LED). It was completely off, regardless of what I did. Then I tried it on my old laptop (also an HP) and it worked fine. So I started reading through all the questions and I discovered the person who said that their monitor was wide gamut and that they had been trying White LED without working until they switched to Wide Gamut. So I gave it a whirl. And it seems to have worked. I am need to compare my prints to my monitor tomorrow, during daylight because my interior lights are way too dim and yellow to make a true comparison right now. Anyway, I was just wondering how I can know for sure if my monitor is Wide Gamut?