Damien Symonds

While you're waiting for Brian you should definitely rectify this. https://macpaw.com/cleanmymac

Not really.

Yes, of course. Your brightness setting is too high. Calibrate again at 80.

That sure is odd. Yes, it's most likely you'll need to do it again, with the next coolest preset. But how does the screen-to-print comparison look?

Great!!! So you'll create your document at 144x48 inches, at 150ppi, in RGB mode, and the sRGB colour space. Your choice here will depend whether there ends up being text or logos or any linework in your design. If it has those things, you'll use PDF. If it's only photos, you'll use jpeg. Important information about PDFs here: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/05/making-pdfs-from-photoshop.html You don't need to worry about this. The act of saving as a PDF does this automatically. Needless to say, please write to me again any time you need help.

For the record, my instructions DO tell you to switch to advanced. How did the calibration turn out?

Unrelated to your question, but NEVER do this. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/07/smart-objects-what-theyre-for-and-what.html

Also, make sure you run Glary once a month. https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/22347-glary01/

Ah, that sounds more like it. This all looks very normal. I'd say you've done everything you can. So your job, from now on, is to prevent C drive filling up any more. Make sure all your photos go on D drive.

2015GB doesn't sound right for that folder.

Fantastic! Ok, fair enough. And are you taking the photos, or will they be supplied to you from other people? No need to change a good thing Ok, you'll need to talk to them and get their artwork specifications. Most places can send you a PDF. It will tell you about PPI, CMYK, etc, etc. So contact them (or just browse their website, it might be there) and let me know what you find out.

Can you confirm this one?

Hi @knlpix, welcome. Can you give me a bit more info? Which version of Photoshop do you have? Will the artwork be just photographs, or will it also contain text and/or logos and/or other design elements? Have you, or the school, decided on which printing company they'll use?

Try this.

How much free space is on your C drive now?

Wonderful! Ok, go ahead and calibrate. https://www.damiensymonds.net/calibration-instructions/

I strongly suggest doing this: https://www.dummies.com/computers/operating-systems/windows-10/how-to-change-the-location-of-user-folders-in-windows-10/

Yes, the C drive must strictly only be for your Windows. EVERYTHING else must go on your D drive. And Brian will have a fit if he sees you say that you keep everything on your desktop. Never do that, it's bad for your computer's performance (although worse for Macs than PCs).

How did it go, @Viviana?

It could be argued that it's even more important for your screen to match bad prints, so that in the future you can see that they'll be bad before you print them!

No, the prints you have are perfectly fine. They don't need to be wonderful prints. Your screen just needs to match them exactly, that's all.

Talk to me, @Viviana. In what way does your screen differ from your prints?

I don't have a "quick trick" here I'm afraid. It'll just have to be careful patient dodge and burn.

If there is going to be clipping in the conversion, then yes.

Ah ... yes and no. This will help you: https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs2.html