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Thank you again so very much. Will do.

Thank you soooo much Brian! This indeed helps. So far it is just the mail on my computer that isn't working (I am doing a run around by going to gmail directly). I am definitely behind on PS as I am running 2023 but for my work, it is ok for now. I will hold out then until April/May as I would like to get as long as possible from my computer. This one is 2017 but it is running Big Sur. Do you think I should try updating to Ventura like you have?

Hi Brian. I have 2 questions. 1. I will need a new iMac soon (within the month) and wondering if you have any update to your recommendations from early 2025. 2. Yesterday, I had to get a new iPhone Now my email on my desktop won't download new messages. It says I need to put in password in Internet Accounts. I try to do this and all I get is the spinning rods. I can access this gmail from gmail, just not on my Mac email. Does this make sense?? Has my new phone interacted and caused an issue? Help! I am operating Big Sur, 11.7.10. I shut my computer off each night. Last run Clean My Mac 3 weeks ago. Thank you so much for your help.

Hi Brian, I have an old Dell Inspiron 5567 laptop (piece of garbage) 2011. It can be turned on but I am unable to access settings or anything on it. Anything I need to do before disposing of it? Thanks.

Hi Brian, I have an old WD and a WD My Passport hard drives. The larger hard drive I haven't used for donkey ages (years?) and when I plug it in, nothing happens. The smaller My Passport doesn't seem to have anything on it. Question: What do I need to do, if anything, before getting rid of these? Thanks for your help. Also, when do you think an update on what to purchase for a new computer might be coming from Apple?

I have a Mac desktop running Big Sur 11.7.10 and Photoshop 24.2.0. It is over 8 years old, and has 16GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 706GB free out of 1000GB, and it runs a Radeon Pro 555 2GB graphics card. The last time I shut down was last night. I run a cleanup program about once a month. I recently updated my Bridge and Camera Raw programmes. Bridge is now 2022 ver.12.0.4.286 and Camera Raw 16.5. When I go to do noise removal there is AI and Manual. I no longer have Sharpening and things are different. Do I need to re-take one of your courses so I know what to do now? I expect to get a new computer this year and expect I'll update programmes further (I can't go any further with my programmes at this point). Will I need to re-do courses since everything will have changed so much? Thanks Damien. I see sharpening now but I'm still confused.

Hi Brian. Canadian here. Wondering if you have a recommendation regarding when to get a new computer considering tariffs? Thanks :)

Thanks, I was afraid of that

Blinds are reflected in Left glass. Anyway to remove this?

Thanks!

Thank you so much Brian. Very helpful. On another note - do you have an idea when you are updating your "what Mac to purchase?" so incredibly helpful. Cheers

Hi Brian. I have a PC laptop that I sometimes use for photos but also for other things and I am wondering if you have a recommendation for anti-virus, firewall for it. Also, I want to do on-line banking, so I need it to be secure. I am running Windows 11. Thanks for your help.

Ok. That's great. Thank you so much.

Damien, I am doing a project where I am photographing in a hospital and sometimes monitors of patient information gets in the picture. I want to blur this due to patient confidentiality. So I am using Gaussian blur but I wonder where in my workflow I should do this? Or does it matter? Thanks.

Ok. sounds good to me. thanks for helping me sort things

Ok. Have done the printing. Preview gives me perfect colour and brightness. PS colour lacks red and is a wee bit not as bright.

Ok. That will take me a bit. As soon as I get that done, I'll message you.

The prints I used were from a pro-lab here in town (Canada)

I have a Spyder Xpro. Can't remember date of last calibration. ?? over 1 month. Will do another calibration now.

That's right. The dog closest to me is more brown than red now. Also I think it isn't quite as bright as from Preview.

That seems to have got rid of lines. Colour not quite right but doable. Size not right but I don't know how to size image for paper...yet

Is this what you are looking for?

Oh. Maybe we should see if we can fix the PS settings then?

I don't think we need to, thanks. It's not like these are works of art photos lol. I will be taking your Print course at some time and I know I won't be using this printer for that. Thanks so much.

The prints have excellent colour and brightness when printed from Preview. Just like they look in PS. When I tried to print from PS, the colour was a way off, in addition to the lines.