Damien Symonds

You're really sticking with the horrible dark effect, eh?

The class will blow your mind, I promise.

Have you tried the Channel Mixer numbers I suggested?

Forget about the 70 thing. We're going to have to ignore that, since the room is already as bright as you can make it. The screen MUST match the prints.

The screen's brightness MUST match the prints. This is not negotiable. If the room brightness can't go any brighter, then the screen's brightness needs to come down.

Then you'd better put that third bulb back in. Your room light must be way too dim.

Definitely go lower. As low as it takes to get a print match. Some people literally have to have their screen's brightness setting on 0 (although that is rare of course). Bummer. Yeah, try the 5663 one.

Hi @kellrodriguez, may we have some more information? Where are these files? I mean, are they on your internal hard drive, or an external one?

If that doesn't work, you'll need to go exploring in the Keyboard Shortcuts (in the Edit menu on a PC, not sure about a Mac) and see if you can figure out the problem there. If THAT doesn't work, you'll need to reset Photoshop's preferences entirely.

In that case: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/09/resetting-tools.html

How did the recal go, @cathm?

Is this the same also for the Clone Tool?

Ok, interesting. Maybe recalibrate now, with the lower brightness?

It had the info for the new sliders three years ago when you were still in the class!!! I'm sad that you didn't take advantage of it at the time. Are you sure the light in your room is ok? https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/01/light-around-your-computer.html

I don't yet have instructions written for the SpyderX range, I'm afraid. Were you following my directions for the Spyder5?

Well, I'd been really hoping we could blame it on poor calibration. But since you said your screen is acceptably close to your prints ..

Badly Look, whatever. You keep going with your dodgy raw processing using out-of-date sliders, and use this Channel Mixer layer for the moire: Red 0, +105, +15, +10 Green 0, +90, +10, 0 Blue 0, +90, +10, 0

https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/8513-raw-signup-16/

And? A perfect match to your pro lab prints?

Oh hell, no, that's worse.

Yep, that should be easy enough to fix. Go ahead and do your raw processing as normal, then post the photo again and we'll fix the moire.

Oh, I used to have an XP-Pen brand one! Yep, this is perfect. As a starter device, anyway. You should definitely try it out. Remember what I said in my article - don't expect to love it straight away. In fact, there's a 50-50 chance that you'll utterly hate it straight away. But give it a couple of weeks, and you'll grow to love it.

You'll find 'em here: https://www.damiensymonds.net/calibration.html

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2014/03/distortion-or-perspective-correction.html

Good. Yes. Hopefully it won't be necessary. But if it is necessary, you'll do it. Adjust again, then calibrate again. As often as you need to.