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New Computer - Color Calibration
Damien Symonds replied to reneefoto's topic in Monitor calibration questions or problems
Yes, it MUST be sRGB. -
New Computer - Color Calibration
Damien Symonds replied to reneefoto's topic in Monitor calibration questions or problems
Oh, phew! Ok, let me know how you go with the lights. -
New Computer - Color Calibration
Damien Symonds replied to reneefoto's topic in Monitor calibration questions or problems
Oh, sorry. https://www.damiensymonds.net/color-space-settings-for-the-lightroom-user/ -
New Computer - Color Calibration
Damien Symonds replied to reneefoto's topic in Monitor calibration questions or problems
No, in the bottom left corner of the Photoshop screen, remember? Where it said "Untagged" before. -
New Computer - Color Calibration
Damien Symonds replied to reneefoto's topic in Monitor calibration questions or problems
See where it says "Custom" at the top? That's bad. Pull down that menu and put it back on "North America General Purpose 2" the way it should be. However, that still doesn't explain all those untagged images. Did you re-open one of the raw files from Lightroom to see what it says? -
New Computer - Color Calibration
Damien Symonds replied to reneefoto's topic in Monitor calibration questions or problems
As I said in this article, your choice of calibrator depends on how closely your prints match your screen before calibration. But the trouble is, we can't know THAT until you have good light in your room. Right now, it seems like your screen is a dreadful mismatch to your prints, but a lot of that is probably the lighting's fault. Once you badger your husband into getting better lighting, you might find that the mismatch is nowhere near as b ad as you thought; in which case you only have to buy a cheaper calibrator, which would be great! Cool. Can you quickly go to the Edit menu and choose "Color Settings", and take a screenshot of that window for me? -
New Computer - Color Calibration
Damien Symonds replied to reneefoto's topic in Monitor calibration questions or problems
I don't know how it happened either. I guess you'll need to open the file from Lightroom again and see if it has its profile this time. The best practice is to get a good desktop screen and plug it into your laptop. (This is best practice for all laptops, whether they are touchscreens or not.) Good desktop screens are very affordable nowadays. Or maybe you've even already got a spare screen in your house that you could plug in? Anyway, for now, let's just do our best with what you have. No calibrators come with disks any more, for exactly the reason you stated. The software all comes from download. But yes, even if you could access the software for your Munki, it wouldn't work on the new touch screen technology of your new computer. So a new calibrator is on the cards for you. Great! Keep on his case about that. It's impossible for a photographer to work properly under dim and/or yellow lighting. Hmmmm ... can you tell me which version of Photoshop you have? -
New Computer - Color Calibration
Damien Symonds replied to reneefoto's topic in Monitor calibration questions or problems
Hi @reneefoto, there's a whole lot going wrong here. Let's try to break it down. sRGB is the correct setting, but somehow your photo has lost that setting. It's got no profile attached at all. I don't know how that happened. Do this check and you'll see what I mean. Secondly, you're using Lightroom. Lightroom is a steaming pile of shit. PLEASE take the 30 day challenge. Thirdly, your computer has a touch screen. They are really really terrible for editing. Is it too late to take the computer back? Fourthly, you don't have a calibrator yet. You must get one right away. Also, possibly a fifth point, your room light might not be any good. Please read this. -
Colorful, sharp and extra
Damien Symonds replied to HollyJo's topic in How to achieve a certain look or effect
Yep, that looks similar to others I've seen. -
Colorful, sharp and extra
Damien Symonds replied to HollyJo's topic in How to achieve a certain look or effect
Have you explored "The Orton Effect"? -
Colorful, sharp and extra
Damien Symonds replied to HollyJo's topic in How to achieve a certain look or effect
I would say there are some areas of normal colour, surrounded by a lot of areas of reduced colour. Therefore, the normal colour looks "vibrant" in that context. -
Colorful, sharp and extra
Damien Symonds replied to HollyJo's topic in How to achieve a certain look or effect
Really? I would have said the style was characterised by removal of colour. -
Colorful, sharp and extra
Damien Symonds replied to HollyJo's topic in How to achieve a certain look or effect
Gawd that's nauseating. -
Colorful, sharp and extra
Damien Symonds replied to HollyJo's topic in How to achieve a certain look or effect
Yes, I think so. If there was more shadowing I might have been able to leave Blue at 0/0/100/0. I made it. -
Colorful, sharp and extra
Damien Symonds replied to HollyJo's topic in How to achieve a certain look or effect
I'm not sure what you mean, sorry. I didn't do anything like that. I think this method would work for a lot of photos; but again I emphasise there was no blue channel shift. I simply used the blue channel to make the black-and-white version of the photo, which is then used on Soft Light mode as a form of D&B. -
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Damien Symonds replied to HollyJo's topic in How to achieve a certain look or effect
The instagram subject has a more shadowing on her than your subject (particularly when we compare arms), but I'm pretty sure the blue channel is the key: Download PSD