Damien Symonds

Once your photo gets to Photoshop, the data is no longer high quality raw data, it's just plain ol' pixel data. Photoshop is suitable for minor brightness tweaks, but overall brightness MUST be corrected in raw where the data quality is so much more robust.

Oh, no no no no no no no. That's VERY bad. You must do your raw processing properly.

How did it go, @cathm?

No, not at all. Just do it exactly the same way you do when preparing any other photo for print, exactly as you learned in the Sharpening Class.

Well, yeah.

Yeah, that's a good point. Acrylic (with increased saturation) will look amazing, colour-wise. ... but it would be pretty unforgiving, quality-wise.

How about choosing canvas? That would be a bit more forgiving.

Oh, wonderful. Ok, go ahead and do your raw editing on these photos, then post them again for me.

Wishing you and your family peace and healing, @Melissalile. And don't forget I'm eager to see your photos when you're ready.

To avoid any glare sneaking in under the calibrator and ruining the readings.

Night is fine.

Yep. So go ahead and calibrate again, with a lower brightness target. If it was 100 last time, try 90 this time.

Hi @StudioPopJess, yes, I think I can help you with those. Did you shoot raw?

How far through the class are you so far, @SnapbeanPhotography?

I've never encountered this issue before, but I reckon you've found its source.

Well ... yes, I assume so. Don't you think so?

Ok, and is that when the date is wrong?

Immediately, do you mean? "Save As PSD" then immediately "Save as Jpeg"?

Hang on, I'm confused again. You open from ACR into Photoshop, edit, then save as a PSD, yes?

Ok. And how did you save the jpegs, exactly?

Ok, thanks. What about the PSD files? Are they dated correctly?

So the dates on the raw files are still correct? It's the dates on the jpegs that are wrong?

Yes, that's what I meant. But gosh, that sounds weird, doesn't it? Is there something wrong with the date setting on your camera?

Does your system show the same?

CS6 will run fine on Windows 10, don't worry.