Damien Symonds

No, of course it's much too dark. Go ahead and do your raw editing in the usual way.

Oh, phew! Ok, go ahead and do your normal raw processing (exposure etc) then post the photo again and we'll discuss the glare.

Hi @Katie10, yes, I can help you with this, at least to a degree. How many photos have this problem?

Calibrate in the daytime. Just close the blinds while you're doing it. And you'll need to only edit in the daytime, until you have brighter lights that match daylight.

Have you recalibrated, @Viviana?

@Crystal Scheuermann?

What about windows? If you open the blinds in the middle of the day, how does the screen compare to prints then?

Are you SURE your room is bright enough? https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/01/light-around-your-computer.html

Just to check - are these the instructions that you're following?

Yes, that's ok to fiddle with the Contrast setting, but yes, you need to recalibrate afterwards.

Can you just read over this and make sure everything is kosher?

Yeah, you're not the first person to mention this glitch. It's very annoying. Have you continued on to complete the calibration; and if so, how was the print match?

If your screen is too bright, lower the luminance target. 6500K is not the problem there. 100 is the problem.

What's your assessment? Do you think the lab has printed your new prints differently from the older prints?

Oh, right, I understand now. This is just a simple matter of Levels. Select that dark area, add a Levels layer and clip it to the cat layer, then use the black eyedropper to get the weight right. https://www.damiensymonds.net/levels-eyedropper

May I see the whole photo for context?

Do you still have those prints? If they are still perfect, then it would mean you have simply received a bad batch of prints this time, you know?

Yes, ignore those numbers. They don't matter a bit.

In your screenshot, your crop tool is set to "Ratio" in the Options Bar, which is exactly correct ... but you haven't typed 15 and 11 in the fields?

Always with the Crop Tool. It can't work with Image Size, because mathematics (it will be out of proportion, as you say). Can you show me a screenshot of how you're cropping to 11:15?

Hooray!!

https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/22347-glary01/

Wow. It seems like there might be something screwy with your graphics, eh? Have you checked for any available updates for your graphics card?

Do you have the photo, or only this scan?

Great, they're smart objects. So just add Gaussian Blur to the layer, then mask it on only where needed, on the mask of the smart filter.