I can’t see how to delete my original post?? I could remove the image. The issue has been resolved on another forum. Please ignore this post

ver 3.1.2

I have an iPhone image (copy attached) and if viewed at 100% you see that it is full of noise & artifacts. I have tried all the DeNoise modules at various numbers & at full strength but none smooth out the noise. (I dont need detail as it's a shadow against a flat untextured...

Thank you Smudger7

Thanks Doug. I’ll experiment.

I just thought maybe ‘emulating’ the autochrome look would be a fairly established technique with some basic ‘ground rules’.
Regarding Match Color, in my experience you just list the file to use as a source.- is that what you mean?
and to understand your ‘layered’ suggestion,...

Does anyone have experience creating this look and if so can you outline the basic steps?

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en...EN+08072020%29

(I wasn't sure if this is the best place to post this, if not please advise)

I tried all the Save, Save copy, Export but all seem to result in a Jpeg file.
I am opening a Tif and want to save it as a Tif after editing in Snapseed.
Can you advise ?

Found.
Interactive Luminosity Masks on Adobe Exchange

Can anyone link me to a good set of Luminosity Mask action/s?

I use Ps CC 2020 on a Mac (OS Catalina)
Thanks

Thank you very much for your help. I'll give it a whirl. Appreciated!

"slightly" soften brush - do you mean Hardness at about 50%-75% more or less?
& for the Layer - Normal & 100%

Thank you Sabrina.
Do you mean to open a Ps Menu>Layer>New Layer
Normal blend mode?
and then ....?
Clone from another part of the forehead around the hotspot?
More step-by-step details if possible please...

I have an available light portrait where the sun reflects off the subjects forehead. I tried the Adj brush in ACR. I also tried to 'burn' it in by saving the raw file as a tif and creating a new 'soft light' layer & burning it in with a 15% opacity brush. It's reasonable, I have some tone in the...

It was shot as a Raw file (I only shoot raw).
Processed in ACR.
i added a small amount of the new Texture (setting the slider at 10)
and some Clarity slider.
Maybe those are creating the problem you see....

I went back to the raw file and moved the Brightness slider back to zero (it was at -100). Now the image is washed out and incorrectly exposed but the dark halo has gone. I never would have thought that the Brightness slider would do that.
Now to try and get back to the look without the brightness...