Damien Symonds

@tessag, let's do this here. When you calibrate with your i1, what luminance target do you use?

Great. You can't. It's fundamental mathematics. The required crop shape is different from the native photo shape.

Oh darn. This problem seems to appear in every update. I can't remember the fix, sorry. But if you google for the problem, you'll get a gazillion hits.

Hi @Melissalile, I hope you're doing well. I'd love to see some of your photos in the Raw Class.

Did you confirm that the photos are allowed to be portrait orientation? 1920x1080 is very specifically a screen resolution, and screens are traditionally horizontal. It's possible they might want all the photos to be cropped to landscape? I'm probably wrong, but I thought I should raise it just to be safe.

Perfect.

Hi @Nems, I've moved your post into Ask Damien, since it's not a class-related matter. Of course it cropped! Those dimensions (like all web dimensions) are much smaller than full resolution. So the issue is not "whether it crops". The issue is all about you controlling the crop. So, when you said ... How did you enter them, exactly? If you entered them in the Image Size or Canvas Size dialogs, that's bad. The correct way to do it is with your Crop Tool.

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

Can you clarify these two statements? They seem to contradict each other.

Hi @enrique.h, as far as I am aware, your ColorMunki Photo should work fine with a wide-gamut screen.

Hi @Twyla Hall, this is one I've struggled with many times. There's no perfect way to do that I know of. But you might find that Filter>Noise>Median helps a little bit?

In Preferences>Performance, turn off Graphics Processor and see if the problem goes away.

Great! Then yes, the process you describe sounds fine.

@Aubrey?

I'm afraid I've only ever used wet labs, so I'm not really in a position to compare, sorry.

Oh, phew! So you mean you're going to show the files in Bridge, right? Not ACR?

It should be the "Combine" one.

Oh, this frightens me so much. Please tell me more about your plan.

DON'T DUPLICATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And NEVER CROP IN RAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, that's much better. Based on your fixed SOOR, here's a PSD file: http://mbf.cc/aYy0KU First Liquify to reduce the overall shape of the phone; followed by dodge and burn to improve the shadows. I probably should have been more aggressive with the Liquify, but I hope you get the idea.

I don't think you've watched the video yet?

*sigh* Post in class please.

You don't need to save a PSD on export, period.

And can you change those ratings? If something is a 5, can you make it a 4, or whatever?

I'm so sorry Jodie, I have no idea. Nobody else has mentioned this as a problem. Are all the ratings gone from your older images too, or are they still there ok?