Damien Symonds

How did the recalibration go, @cathm?

Fix the skintone in what way? What will "better" look like? Here's the file: Download PSD Well, it's the same matte crap with which people have been ruining their photos for years. If you've looked through the downloadable files in this section, you'll see heaps of other examples.

I'll have to keep experimenting for the first two. For the third one, I think it's this?

Then that's what you need to address. Calibrate again, with lower screen brightness so that it matches the prints. Ignore colour for now. Only brightness matters.

Who took the photos?

Interesting. And are you ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY 100% sure that the overall brightness of the prints (not individual colours, overall brightness) is not significantly different from your screen?

The red of Santa's suit is ok?

Is the Christmas one printed exactly the same way as the others? Same lab, same paper?

Oh gee, is that all you got? There's no variety there. There are a heap of colour of the spectrum that aren't represented.

What? No, upload the same digital files that you sent to the lab. Unless you have solar-powered internet, the brightness of your room has nothing to do with it.

From the posting guidelines:

Excellent.

Hi Cathy, thanks for reporting in. Can you post the photos here for me to see? Upload the exact jpeg files that you sent to the lab.

I reckon the hard dark rim of shadow around it looks odd.

Sorry, I don't know of a way either. The only way I'm aware of is to select them all and temporarily add them to a Collection. Then the stars filter will be accurate for that set.

Your brush tool is on "Difference" mode in the Options Bar.

I don't have any shortcuts for this, sorry. It'll have to be very careful cloning.

There isn't a link for that, sorry. Every photo is different. May I see yours?

Oh, Lara uses Plex!

Fair enough. PLEASE start posting some photos in class.

It certainly does add complications, but lots of people do it.

Have they arrived yet?

What did you decide in the end, @Melissalile?

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

This looks really excellent, well done. Did you remember to add the noise layer to the gradients?