Damien Symonds

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?

Please read the posting guidelines. I need an example link.

Ok, well, go ahead and restart the computer and see if the problem persists. Also, is it only doing this with raw files? What about PSDs or jpegs?

Can you elaborate on this? What happens (or doesn't happen) exactly? Also, please do this for me: https://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html

@Aubrey?

Yeah, I think this will be ok.

Good!

Yep, this'll be ok.

Can you show me a screenshot of the message? Then can you do this for me? https://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html

I've been using Liquify for years without graphics processor turned on. What happens when you try to use Liquify with it turned off? Do you get an error message of some sort?

Perfect! Begin by adding a Channel Mixer layer, checking the "Monochrome" box, then entering 0, 0, +100, 0 for the four values. Then post in the Levels Class for me so we can discuss it from there.