Damien Symonds

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.

This can't be "fixed" in any usual way. You'll need to find another photo of his face to do an eye swap if possible.

I'll need to see it close up.

Raw Class next. https://www.facebook.com/groups/195567190503489/permalink/2214850475241807/

Make it easy for yourself. Shoot them as actual silhouettes. Like, against a bright window or whatever.