Courtney Goldman

Thanks!!

My father has asked me to do some minor editing to some old photos of his. He doesn't have the time or inclination to get them professionally scanned, so what I have is all I'm gonna get. There's an odd chunk of purple on a handful of the photos, most prominently in this one. Any advice on how to fix that? Thanks!!

I think I've come as close as I can without having someone come here to help me!

I get one photo to look right, then another looks all wrong!!!

Yep, still working on it. Are any of these better or worse for the prints I'm trying to match? I have avoided using the orange tree leaves and the aqua jacket to compare. (I chose these as they are to give to my sister and parents, and I got multiple copies of each...)

On the monitor, then, not SpyderTune? Because SpyderTune has blue and red as opposite, so I'd have to choose one...

What do I need to do to make my screen pinker?

I dunno. I think I've lost my mind. The prints are warmer and pinker than my screen. I've tried re-doing the calibration with different color temps, per your instructions online. That didn't work. I tried using SpyderTune, and I feel like I can get the subject to look right, but then the sky or background is totally wrong. Also, I'm thrown by the Red vs Blue and Purple vs Green. I tried pushing it towards Red and towards Purple - going for warm and pink - but it's just not working right. I'm going to quit for the night and try again tomorrow.

I'm about to work on it now. Ironically, I thought maybe my room wasn't bright enough so I added another light. Now I am getting a glare from the white wall behind me!

A little, but I'll work at it again tonight.

Elite

Do you think one gives better results than the other in general? I'm still having a hard time getting my WHCC prints to match.

I used to use a colormunki, and recently got the Spyder X. Why does the Spyder use so many fewer colors when it does the calibration than colormunki? Or maybe my real question is how can it be as accurate?

Never mind, I finally figured it out! I was double clicking on the middle dropper but hadn't chosen the curves part, I was on the mask part.

I learned a technique for replacing a color using curves in a class for NILMDTS editing, and I know I've seen you bring it up to. I searched both here and there and can't find it. I know it is using a curves layer and the eye dropper tool. Can you help? Thanks!