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I'm not.  I'm answering your question.  Thanks for the help.

No. From a folder on my computer. Both RAW and previously edited in PS then saved as jpg are causing this notification. 

This failed.  Tried to ask Adobe.....was put on "extended wait."

No. I will look up how to do that.....

Thank you....Bridge and I are already boys.  I can do lots of craziness in PS thanks to your RAW and Levels classes and then some.  I was just trying to be a well rounded hobbyist.  Make sure I knew my way around both.  Clearly LR didn't let me get far before proving it's uselessness.  I will contact Adobe and see if they have some insight.  Thank you for your help and your time.  Much appreciated!!!  Happy New Year!

It started yesterday.  I deleted the program because there was an update.  Then I downloaded the new version of Lightroom classic CC.  Same problem.  I'm a PS user so LR is kicking my ass right now and making me feel stupid.  It worked before but just started this BS.  No changes so I don't know where to look to fix it and I don't know enough about the catalogs to start messing with them.  I only got as far as opening my photos into develop and using the brush tool. 

No.

I should have asked my 7 year old.   16GB says the sticker on my keyboard.  Sorry. 

I have a PC laptop running Window 10 and Lightroom cc. It is over 2 years old, and has 238GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 191GB free out of 238GB. The last time I shut down was more than 24 hours ago. I run a cleanup program about once a week.

I think I may see where this is going......

Whhhhhhyyyyyyy!!!!!??????

It worked yesterday......not today.  No changes.  No Mac to PC.  

Yeah, I think maybe so.  It feels strange aiming to block out detail when most of the time I am trying to preserve it.  

I could not change the color profile in the background and was forced to adapt my other images to the background profile.  I no longer have the RAW of the background.  Rookie.....I know.  I'm learning (and struggling).  This is the best I could make of it and it still looks weird.  I just wanted to update you on my progress because I appreciate the time you have taken to help me.  Thank you.

The spine of the book would lay down the middle of this image.  I have a lot of work to do.  

17 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

Oh crap, your city photo is still Adobe RGB.

I'm sorry.  I'm must not have saved correctly.  

1 minute ago, Damien Symonds said:

Regarding the darkening, I guess there would be a million ways of doing it.  I suggest trying this:

1. Add a Gradient Map layer, plain black-to-white.
2. Clip it to the kids layer.  This will mean they're in black-and-white, but the city is still in colour.
3. Change the GM layer's blend mode to "Multiply".  This will turn them back to colour, but a lot darker.
4. Paint low-opacity black on the mask of the GM layer, to return some of the original brightness where you want the light to be striking the kids.
5. Then add a black Solid Color layer, and also clip it to the layers below.
6. Invert its mask to hide it.
7. Paint with low-opacity white where you want the kids to be darkened.

Thank you!  I will try this in the morning and post results.  

No.

Fixed.

I am compositing a few images to create the elementary school yearbook cover.  The location in downtown Richmond did not provide adequate space to position the kids as needed.  My plan was to shoot the kids separately at dusk using my speedlight and a reflector to create night time dramatic lighting but my speedlight failed and I had to shoot with better exposure.  My question is....how do I edit the kids to fit into the night background?  How do I create the directional light from the lower front right?  I have tried a few methods but seem to just create bad color.  And Google is not helping me.  I am attaching the psd in progress as a jpg.  The selections are rough as I was trialing how to best make this work.  I will be specific in the details when I know I'm not wasting my time