Jake,Ryan different photo/background

[Cindy Young]

[Damien Symonds]

Now that you've got the mask in place, you can do the eyedropper thing again, to get it a bit more accurate in colour.

[Cindy Young]

OK, done.  I'm guessing I click on a the color variances in the backdrop, NOT the wall behind it.  AND do I do another levels layer or just the eyedropper thing??

Edited May 28, 2016 by Cindy Young

[Cindy Young]

12:35 am and I woke up this morning at 4:00 am.  I'm going to bed to get up in 5 1/2 hrs to watch my grandkids' swim meet.  Thank you, D. and I do know where the donation button is!!  I do need more help, though!

Edited May 28, 2016 by Cindy Young

[Damien Symonds]

1 hour ago, Cindy Young said:

AND do I do another levels layer or just the eyedropper thing??

The one you've already got, NOT a new one.

1 hour ago, Cindy Young said:

I'm guessing I click on a the color variances in the backdrop

Click on the colour you want it to be.  That is all.

[Cindy Young]

I have the eyedropper thing ready.  But now what?  Is it the Gradient LAYER (Christina says no, but the link provided is for a Gradient LAYER) OR the Gradient TOOL?  If it's the Gradient TOOL, then I do not know how to get it onto the Levels layer.  I have clicked on the levels mask and tried to draw the line on the photo to have the background color fill in at the top, but it doesn't.  The brain is

still foggy here.  

[Damien Symonds]

Please forget about the gradient layer for now.  We have to get the levels correct first.

[Cindy Young]

Oh, man!  I thought I had finished my levels work.  Is it too yellow?  The SOOC was waaaay underexposed, but all I have is the edited DNG.  The right side of the photo was really "hot."  I have not done levels on the background, but I have on everything else.  Suggestions?

[Damien Symonds]

What?  No, I'm just talking about that Levels layer.  The one that you're using to balance the ceiling with the wall.

[Cindy Young]

I forgot about the original….

SOOC

SOOR

My levels work:  (had a hard time with baby's face)

 

 

[Cindy Young]

Oh, sorry, I sent those photos before I read your reply.

[Cindy Young]

OK, I have the PSD in front of me, both mine and yours.  I don't have a clue as to what to do with *that* levels layer.

[Damien Symonds]

Use the eyedropper, exactly as described in the tutorial.

[Cindy Young]

1) clicked on layer icon   2) double clicked on white eyedropper   3) selected a color near baby's head   4)OK>No   5) clicked on darker part of backdrop   6) selected mask

The tutorial says to start masking.  If I mask on the ceiling with the white brush, little to nothing happens.  If I mask with the black brush, it darkens the area.

 

[Damien Symonds]

You've already masked, remember? Steps 1-5 should make the dark wall at the top of the hair match the light wall at the rest of the hair.

[Cindy Young]

But it doesn't.  I will start over from my SOOR.

[Cindy Young]

Even after I re-edited, and did the eyedropper thing after masking everything except the ceiling, the ceiling does not match the light wall at the rest of the hair.  So frustrating for me and a million times more frustrating for you, I'm sure!

[Damien Symonds]

Gee, it's really close!

[Damien Symonds]

Just to check, you should be sampling the colour from (1) and then clicking at (2).  Is that what you're doing?

[Cindy Young]

No, I didn't really know where to sample.  I will re-do.  I "thought" the whole ceiling would match the spot where the backdrop started.  

[Damien Symonds]

You only need that bit touching the hair to match.  Nothing else matters, because it will be covered by the new wall you add later.

[Cindy Young]

What about the little bit to the right and left?

[Damien Symonds]

Hey, perfect!!!  Now paint carefully on the mask (with white, of course) for those parts.

[Cindy Young]

What about the bright color behind that hair on the right?  

[Damien Symonds]

Paint it back with a low-opacity black brush, of course.  Keep finessing it until it matches like mine does.