Damien Symonds

How did the calibration go, @Maggie Collins?

How did the calibration go, @RachFarber?

How's the calibration/lighting situation now, @Jenny_11?

@fstoplife?

Please @cathm?

How did you go with this, @meris?

Any luck, @cathm?

Oh, that's excellent! Yes, you should use 250ppi. YOU do it, not the lab. Choose your Crop Tool, enter "20in" and "30in" for the size, and "250" for the resolution, then crop. Then sharpen. I beg you not to print such a large photo until you've taken the Sharpening Class.

May I have a link to that?

I'm pretty sure they recommend 300ppi. But check their site to make sure.

Your lab's website should tell you. Which lab do you use?

For print, do you mean?

I'm so sorry mate, I have NFI. You're the second person to mention this. The other person had to re-record the action from scratch.

I've moved this into @Brian's section because I don't know much about Macs.

Hmmm ... 8GB is the bare minimum of RAM to run CC. You'll need to make sure you don't have any other programs open while you're running the Adobe programs. It would be a good idea to run the Scanner Tool at crucial.com and see if you can add more RAM. Brian always says that you should have at least 1/3rd hard drive space free, and you're a bit under that. Your drive is sufficiently big so it shouldn't matter, but don't let it get any more full. And you should definitely run CleanMyMac straight away, and every month hereafter. Also - VERY important - make sure you don't have ANYTHING on the desktop. No files, no folders. Desktop clutter slows a computer significantly, Brian says.

@oliveoh, please do this for me: https://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html

I realise it's not perfect, but it's the best I can offer, I'm afraid.

How did you go, @calliechinen?

@fstoplife, how did you go? Have you managed to find out what light setup she uses?

You'd go for the 5000, I figure. But yeah, the brightness is really important too.

It's time to take a refresher on the Raw Class. It's been a LONG time since you took it, and a LOT has changed. https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/8494-raw-signup-1/

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Great, I look forward to hearing.

That's right. Again, her light is smaller, higher and brighter than yours.

I need you to take a look at the catchlights in her photos. See how they're smaller, brighter and higher than yours? She has specifically shot for this style. Whereas you have taken a lovely but "regular" photo.