Damien Symonds

Hi @Lauren23455, which version of Photoshop do you have?

Bummer. Before reinstalling, did you check that you had the most up-to-date version? Also, can you do this for me?

Great! Are you satisfied with the match now?

No, sorry

Your screen MUST MATCH YOUR PRINTS. If your screen is too bright as you say, you have to calibrate again to a lower brightness level.

Never mind. How's the print comparison after calibration?

Hi Michelle, have you still got the program open?

How many of them did you download or buy, and how many did you make yourself? The ones you downloaded will be wherever your computer puts downloads. Your Downloads folder, presumably. For ones you made yourself, they are not saved anywhere on your computer until you actively save them. This catches heaps of people out. They make actions but don't save them to the hard drive, so they only exist in Photoshop. Then Photoshop crashes, and they lose them!

I'm facing this too. It sucks, because my Win7 computer is still running fine. I can confirm that CS5 works absolutely fine with Win10, so CS6 certainly will too.

Yes, that's right.

No, neither. You use your master PSD files, and place them directly into your design. This is all covered in great detail in the Layers & Masks Class. Might be time for you to read it again?

Hi Rae, I recommend beginning by doing this: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2013/10/how-to-properly-re-install-spyder.html

Also @LaPouka it's a good idea to go to Photoshop's Preferences, to the "Performance" section, and uncheck the "Use Graphics Processor" box.

Next time you experience this could you post a screenshot?

Refer to the troubleshooting part of my calibration instructions to fix this.

Just to clarify this ... as long as the print files were sRGB. If they were another colour space, they might be bad.

No no no. You don't need new prints. Whatever prints you have are fine, as long as they're from your usual lab. If you don't have prints, order them RIGHT NOW, because you can't calibrate until you have them in your hand. Calibrate the minute your equipment arrives, and let me know how it goes.

@Michelle Zeiss, talk to me. In what way does your screen not match your prints?

Great.

I think it's lovely, but you'll need to mask it off the window frames.

Have you ever seen this? https://www.damiensymonds.net/magic-fairy-dust-tutorial.html

Yeah, that's better for sure. Can you link me to examples?

I wonder if that hand itself needs to be a bit darker? The same way the floor is a bit darker closer to the camera.

Oh, I see what you mean. No, less shadow I'd assume.

The hand nearest us still looks pretty "floaty", doesn't it?