Damien Symonds

Not quite perfect, but pretty close. Easily passable.

The Philips monitor will have a manual brightness control. Have you found its buttons? They'll (usually) be at the bottom or the right-hand side of the screen, sometimes hidden around the back.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/04/the-handyman-method.html But I hasten to add that I don't think there's a problem. I genuinely can't see what shadow you're talking about? You can't, sorry. You'd need to try to clone the blanket afterwards.

That's great news, @RachFarber. Find instructions for its use here: https://www.damiensymonds.net/calibration.html

Well duh. A typical Lightroom problem. Remind me which version of Photoshop you have at the moment?

Yes. https://www.damiensymonds.net/act_ip.html

Have you set up your watermark action? https://www.damiensymonds.net/act_web.html

Tools>Photoshop>Image Processor

Don't worry, all the modern calibrators will handle the high resolution of 4K just fine.

No, don't worry. The worst that can happen is that it just won't run

PLEASE post it in class, I beg you.

May I have a link to your new computer's specs?

Hi @RachFarber, it's likely that you're right - your old Spyder3 won't work on the new system. But have you tried it anyway?

It's definitely not, sorry.

PLEASE stop trying to edit without help. There's nothing heroic about it. There's certainly nothing time-saving about it.

The hell it was.

It's excellent, but you must never do Photoshop work before the raw work is done!

Probably White LED.

On a Mac the preferences are in the Apple menu, I think? No, definitely don't touch this.

Yep, that's exactly the right one. That's the exact one I wrote the instructions for.

May I have a link to what you got?

The software on the disk is probably out of date anyway. Download the latest from their website. https://www.damiensymonds.net/cal_CMD_mac.html

You really shouldn't have to do this step. LR should be set to save all xmp automatically.

Have you been able to identify any of the missing ones?

Gain is the important one to adjust, as far as I know. As I said in the write-up, every screen is a bit different so it's hard for me to help with that part. Tad cool like "I want to try calibrating again"? Or "I can live with it"?