Damien Symonds

It will help Brian if you can quantify your budget. How much do you have to spend?

Hi @Luckyvok, did you browse the forum before posting? This question has been asked a LOT.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html

Oh gee, gotta have Bridge installed. It's SO important.

As far as raw processing goes, you'll enjoy more powerful batch-processing capabilities from Bridge than you ever had with PSE. Do you have Bridge installed? But mainly, it's the Levels Class you need to read again. It's all different.

Hi @Melissa p, please don't wait any longer to dive into your Raw Class!

Yeah, of course you have to finish reading the class first.

Sure, go for it! Do your raw edit and post it in the class for me.

Sorry, I don't understand the question.

Thank you! I look forward to seeing lots and lots of your photos in the Deluxe Posting Area.

Yay!! ❤️ I'll email you.

Correct. Not just our favourite prints, but ALL our prints. Once you're calibrated, you can have confidence with your editing. When you're editing a photo, you know that it will print exactly the way you're editing it. This is not because they printed badly. The lab faithfully printed the exact files you sent them. The reason you don't like the colour of your prints is because you EDITED them badly. Once you have good calibration, you'll never edit badly again. So, calibrate again. Make the screen match the prints.

Do you understand why it's important to calibrate our screens?

It doesn't matter that you don't like the colour of the prints. You have to make your screen match them. Once the screen matches your prints, you'll know that you don't like their colour BEFORE you print them, don't you see?

I don't understand the question, sorry. Is the new calibration a closer match for your prints?

Yes, cloning. Vary the source frequently. Make sure you do it on a new layer. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/10/role-of-masks-when-cloning.html

Yeah, sure! It would take time and patience, but definitely feasible.

Why would you, though? Why would you bother clogging up your hard drive with an extra PSD? Those suckers are big.

Well, no. Complicated, but I agree with your process. If all you have is Excel and Photoshop, it kinda has to be that way I guess.

No, that's the right page. You need the "White Point Targets" section.

Hang on, what? You'd change the luminance target if the screen is too bright or too dark. Is that the case? For the screen's coolness, you change the white temperature.

Don't worry about it for now. Start with the Layers & Masks Class first instead.

Darn it, you're right. My googling says that (weirdly) Adobe have continued support for Windows 7 64-bit, but stopped supporting Windows 8 a couple of years ago

I had Photoshop CC running just fine on Windows 7, so there is no reason it won't run on Windows 8.1. Can you elaborate on the problem? What's happening, exactly?

Fantastic! Ok, follow the troubleshooting part of my calibration instructions, for when the screen is too cool.