Damien Symonds

Great, let's concentrate on those. How closely does Photoshop match them at the moment?

Ok, then we'd better ignore that set of prints for now. Do you still have some previous prints there with you?

Can we come back to that a bit later? For now, we must concentrate entirely on getting a match between your photos in Photoshop, and the prints in your hand. Is this the first time this has happened? How often do you get prints?

Chana, its 7:40am on Monday here. I'm running around making lunches and trying to get my kids ready for school. I'm answering your questions as promptly as I can, but I beg you grant me a little patience.

I'm so sorry, I don't understand the question. Could you explain further?

That's ok.

Yes. You've become too used to it being REALLY REALLY bright. So proper brightness always seems too dark at first.

No, leave the moon (contrast) exactly where it is. Keep the brightness going down. The result should be somewhere between 80 and 100. Some people have to take their screen's brightness to 10% or even lower.

Sorry, yes, press "Update". Don't worry about the pinkish for now. Only the brightness at this stage.

Great. So take that brightness way down, until you have a match.

As low as it needs to be. To match your pro lab prints. Which lab are your prints from?

Page 37 tells you how to adjust the brightness.

Is this the monitor you have? https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_electronics_accessories/esuprt_electronics_accessories_monitors/dell-u2419h-monitor_user's-guide_en-us.pdf

209 is completely outrageous. You forgot to adjust your screen's brightness to match your prints at the beginning of the instructions.

Oh, sorry, on a Mac it's in a different menu. I can't remember what it's called, but it'll be there somewhere. Show me a screenshot of your available menus if you can't find it.

Hi @chana, did you follow my calibration instructions here?

Oh, phew.

I'm definitely not going to do that until we know for sure it's the screen, not the room or the calibrator. Yes.

Then I see no alternative but to temporarily move the whole computer back into the other room, and see what happens.

The scan is cooler than the photo you posted earlier, if that's what you mean.

Ok. Do you have another screen you can plug in and try?

Recently in AD I posted about my own experience - how I moved my desk 1.5 metres to the right IN THE SAME ROOM and could no longer achieve a print match. Moving a whole room can make a world of difference. Sorry, for once I wasn't asking about print comparison. I just wanted to know if, to the average person, the screen settings would seem warm now.

Do all the settings look that warm to you? Or is it only the way the calibrator is reading them?

This is truly bizarre. I seriously can't imagine why it would be so. Did you accidentally drop your calibrator while moving stuff?

The first statement seems to downplay the second. It must be more than a "bit" darker.