Damien Symonds

Oh gee, those presets don't exist any more. There are new ones. I've sent you an email.

Unfortunately it's not that simple. If you sent me a carton of eggs, a bag of flour, a tub of sugar, a block of butter, etc, you could ask me to bake a cake with it. I'd measure the quantities I needed, and make a delicious cake. But if you sent me those ingredients already mixed together and asked me to pop it in the oven, the cake would be a disaster.

*head in hands, sobbing* Yes.

In the same place as always. Under "Optics".

This is why I generally use Method 1, not Method 2, for culling.

"IPS Level" means "not IPS".

Don't be silly. Move to Bridge.

You literally have the Creative Cloud app on your computer, yes?

We're fans of Dells here. I'm sure you'd like that monitor. But no, I can't see it making a difference to your choice of calibrator.

In the Help menu, there should be "About Photoshop". Does that tell you?

Then yes, I definitely agree with you. I can't see any benefit in getting the HL.

To confirm, this is the screen you have? https://www.gigabyte.com/Monitor/M32Q/sp

Yep, for sure. Go ahead and do the raw processing as usual, then show me again.

Yeah, that might be better.

Once you know the pixel dimensions their website requires, you can follow this: https://www.damiensymonds.net/client-photoshop/

Okay.

Will you be watermarking the photos?

Great. So you need to find out what size (pixel dimensions) photos need to be for their website.

It's 15:11, not 15x11. It's a shape, not a size. Before you resize photos, you need to know WHAT size to make them. And for that, you need to know what purpose they'll be used for.

Yep! For what purpose are you resizing?

You've made it too wide, haven't you?

There are a number of ways you could have done it, and yes, this is one. Looks good. I am SO glad you asked this. Lots of people never even think of it. The number of time I see an out-of-focus sky replaced with an in-focus one, it makes me sick. I can't tell from this distance whether you need to blur it or not. But if you think you do, don't ignore than instinct. Always get bigger than you need.

1. No, definitely not. 2. No, all pixel editing should be done first. Add the moon before starting levels.

No, nothing of substance has changed. Everything you learned in class is still relevant.

Yeah, that might be okay.