Barnwood backdrop extention?

[Robynmcgrath]

Yes I did when i could. I still dont think i am happy with this.

[Damien Symonds]

Now it's time for you to tell me what you don't like about it, exactly.

[Damien Symonds]

Shadowing, I guess?  There should be shadowing on the backdrop, behind the chair.

That's easy enough.  Just add a Hue/Saturation layer above the new background layer, and clip it thereto.  Then lower the Lightness slider to about -50, and maybe increase the Saturation a bit.  That will darken the whole wall, of course, so then you invert the mask.

Then with a 10% white brush, paint on shadowing where you want it.

[Robynmcgrath]

Might be lack of shadows  but also i think that the backdrop is maybe a lot more sharp than some parts of the back of the chair and such.

 

[Robynmcgrath]

And I have to do it all over again because my noise removal i did a month ago looks awful. :-(

 

[Damien Symonds]

5 hours ago, Robynmcgrath said:

Might be lack of shadows  but also i think that the backdrop is maybe a lot more sharp than some parts of the back of the chair and such.

Oh yes, that's easy to fix, just blur it.

[Robynmcgrath]

How do I do the blur layer?

[Robynmcgrath]

((I don't remember best method, I'm sure I've done it before but it's been years)).

[Robynmcgrath]

And before I go any further I do want to take this pic into raw and have everything double checked. I'm already dreading having to redo all the masking I did last night.....I don't want to have to do this again on this photo.

[Damien Symonds]

31 minutes ago, Robynmcgrath said:

How do I do the blur layer?

Just Gaussian Blur will work fine.

28 minutes ago, Robynmcgrath said:

And before I go any further I do want to take this pic into raw and have everything double checked. I'm already dreading having to redo all the masking I did last night.....I don't want to have to do this again on this photo.

You won't have to redo the masking, don't worry.  https://www.damiensymonds.net/2013/10/replacing-raw-edit-in-psd.html

[Robynmcgrath]

So I am picking this one back up Does this look okay with the amount of blur I put on the background?

[Damien Symonds]

Yep, I think that looks plausible.