Damien Symonds

May I see the photo without the crop?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/preventing-banding-in-backdrops/

Calibration needs to be done once a month. It is NOT more cost-effective to have somebody else do it.

Just to mention something which I'm sure you already know ... when you're preparing the file for print, make sure you flatten the layers before cropping and sharpening.

No. This is just an issue with your screen, not the file. Your file is fine, and should print fine too. In some cases it can, but not the way you've done it here. You've done it nice and safely.

NEVER CROP!!! Please show me the whole photo.

Also, why is this photo such a weird shape? Have you cropped?

May I also see a screenshot? So I can see your layers panel and stuff?

No. Once you change it it should stay changed, until Adobe push through the next update (stoopid Adobe). But there are two caveats to this. When you change it, you must only have one photo open, and after you change it, you must press "Done" or "Open", not "Cancel", at the bottom right of ACR.

Down the bottom, in the middle. Click on that link to fix it. The Raw Class takes you through this. I've just added you.

Soft-proofing is only something you do when you are about to print a photo with one or more VERY vivid colours in it. Neither of the photos above have such colours in them; so there is no need to soft-proof. Your monitor calibration should give you a sufficient screen-to-print match for all "normal" photos. Make sure you follow my calibration instructions here.

Hi @badwolf1009, Yeah, DEFINITELY don't turn on the "Simulate Paper Color" function. Labs say that because they assume that people aren't calibrated, but I see a Spyder listed in your sidebar profile, so that's good. Can you tell me why you're soft-proofing?

Tell me more about the albums. Where are you getting them printed?

Yes, Photoshop is unnecessarily advanced. Go for Photoshop Elements. But there's a learning curve, of course, as with anything.

Gosh yes. Aperture was so unnecessarily complicated. Once you realise how simple file management is supposed to be, you'll shake your head in sorrow for all that wasted time in Aperture.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/what2buy_soft.html

I hope you don't mind, I've moved this post into Brian's area, since he's the expert in these matters. All I can suggest is to run through all the worst-case scenarios in your mind: Fire or theft Internal hard drive failure NAS failure Backblaze goes out of business or corrupts your files All of those seem very unlikely, but they're all possible, so you need to be confident your system is robust enough to withstand any of them on any given day. Absolutely not, because of Backblaze. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/02/to-dng-or-not-to-dng.html

For whatever it's worth, it's not just you. Lots of people are reporting problems with presets with the new version.

I'm so sorry, this is beyond me. I have no experience with this.

May I see a screenshot of this?

Channels are enormously useful for black-and-white conversion. They provide SO much control. I teach it in the Channel Mixer Class.

No, sorry.

There is, but it doesn't apply in this case. Based on this new, more comprehensive, evidence, you need to calibrate again.

You'll need to calibrate again.

Have you found one, @ice_blue_sassy?