Damien Symonds

Yeah, I think the calibrator is cactus, sorry.

Brian, for context, see the genesis of this discussion here.

Do you have a different (older) screen in the house you could try calibrating with the Spyder instead?

No. The purpose of that lab print is to test the GAMUT of your screen. That is a secondary issue. It only happens after you've finished a successful calibration. Then you get the lab's soft-proofing profile to check how accurate it is. This confirms my fears, I think. A screen's "warm" setting should definitely NOT be this high. So either it's a terrible screen (vaguely possible) or your calibrator is terrible at reading it (most likely). You need to buy - or at least borrow - a newer calibrator, sorry.

Oh gee, a touch screen. They make me nervous. It's likely that your calibrator is too old to properly calibrate that screen. But let's not give up right away. The first thing to do is throw this stupid thing in the bin: You must only use your own photos to confirm calibration. Are you following my calibration instructions here? https://www.damiensymonds.net/calibration.html

Thanks. And what screen do you have?

Which one?

Which calibrator do you have?

Honestly, it doesn't matter. If it suits you, do all the Levels work first, then return to the Background layer and duplicate it then run the filter.

It's done with High Pass filter. Duplicate the Background layer and change its blend mode to "Hard Light" (actually, all five modes from Overlay to Linear Light work in various ways). Then go to Filter>Other>High Pass. I estimate the look you want will be somewhere between 20 and 50.

I don't know, sorry. All I know is that this happens to everyone, from time to time. I've never seen an explanation why it happens.

Do you mean they were presets you'd made on Thursday?

Photos go in class please.

Definitely upgrade yourself to the new sliders.

I've seen this happen before. https://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html

Mine says "Scan for hardware changes" the same as yours. Give it a try.

Are you saying this version doesn't work for you?

It always worked on Windows 10. Why do you think you need updated drivers?

Wow. Ok, we'd better wait for @Brian on this one.

I'm not sure what instructions you've seen, but the way I do it is hold down the Windows key and hit the S key, which brings up my search bar, then I type "device manager". When I launch Device Manager I see the Display Adaptor as one of the options.

The Brightness slider should definitely be at the top of that window. But this is more than just a brightness problem, because your Resolution field is also greyed out. It smells like a graphics driver issue to me.

Can you scroll up a bit? I need to see what's above the "Color profile" bit.

Hi @JoJo momo, Brian will be along soon to give you better advice, but in the meantime can you right-click on your desktop and choose "Display settings" ... ... then show us a screenshot of the Display window that opens up?

Yes they do, and it's vital to adhere to them.

This says it's 1200 for LinkedIn?