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ok ill get some... does it matter HOW much light of the correct light is in the room? I mean I have one ceiling lamp.... should I also change the table lamps and view prints under that?

lol yea not happening after dishing out 3k... but I do have the PC screen you recommended and the color was never spot on with it either. I actually used it this week while my mac was being fixed and I have no idea how i was working on that PC screen before...5k retina is just so clear! Could you link me to which bulbs to use in the room to look at prints?

I guess you can call it cooler, although the prints are not orange, they are more yellow. even adding warmth to the file in PS does not match the print as it makes it more orange and the print has a yellow tinge.

kind of... the first couple of calibrations made everything extremely warm, even the example before and after calibration from spyder was a HUGE change when switched back and forth. The last calibration made the change not as drastic but the prints have a slight yellow wash on them, not orange as in warmth, but more yellow tinge.

ok, so back with daylight here and after the last calibration the prints look more yellow that the screen... its not really more warm, its more yellowish.

ok, I just recalibrated for like the 5th time and I think its better... Ill have to wait until the morning to check prints bc...winter...4pm sunset and no good bulbs here...

I just uodated my sidebar. 

As far as other computers i dont have any at the moment.

The spyder is about 2.5yrs old. is there anything better in the market now worth uograding to?

Hi Damien. I had to wipe out my Imac and restart it from zero due to a crash. I am calibrating and now my screen seems so much more warm than before the crash. The prints are not matching either wo or with calibration. They were pretty close to the monitor with my calibration before the crash.

Any advice? I am following your mac instructions for a spuder4pro

Hi Damien, I finally got an iMac (coming from PC). Just making sure I did it correctly, the mac instructions dont have that measurement readings for each of the presets, correct? just the instructions as is with 2.2, native, etc?

Thanks!

hello! is there a link with info on what are the recommended specs for a new iMac? 

thanks!

ok, i eill do that tomorrow once there is daylight (10pm here now). If that does not work, any other recs I might try since it might be night by you then?

yes... its like the warmth is fine its just the reds, so there isnt a "setting" to adjust that... 

i think so... they were from your old blog... but I just skimmed through this one and it seems pretty much the same?

spyder4 pro

Dell u2412m

Spyder4

Hi Damien...my prints are coming back less magenta than my monitor. How is this adjusted so I can recalibrate? template is matching pretty well, it's just the magenta/red tones that are desaturated specially in skin tones. 

advice?

thanks!

1 minute ago, Damien Symonds said:

Yes, that will be the trickiest part for sure.  Around the feet will need some artificial shadowing.

Yep, do this first, then show me.

ok, will do. I will post back tomorrow!

Should I just play with the highlights and shadows of the ornament?

Once I do that, what would be the best way to add shadows tot he baby so she doesn't look pasted on?

btw...loving this new "forum"!

would I be able to do it the other way around and dim the ornament?

here is the one I am working on... I feel like I managed to place her there pretty good bu now she looks pasted on. How would I go about adding some shadows? What I did was open the background layer, dropped the baby in the background, created a mask for the baby and erased around it. So now I have a layer with the baby with a mask and the background layer of the swing.

yes... now its letting me.... this is the background, its a screen shot... I started playing with it with a different baby and I will post in the next comment. I think my issue now is making it look less cut and pasted it on the new drop...

it wont let me upload... its only less than 2MB

What would be the best tool to use to cut out this baby from this background to paste it on another background? I want nice edge and for it to look natural....

Thank you!