Damien Symonds

In my culling process, I'd 4-star this one. It's good enough to use IF you really don't have any others to use from that pose. But of course if you had an equivalent 5-star, you'd ditch this one.

I guess you need to reorder prints of the exact same files you printed the first time. If they come back looking different, you'll know it's a lab problem.

Well, we need to try to figure out why your screen matches one set of prints but not the other. Can you think of any tiny reason why they might be different?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/askdamien/posts/4143619009031601

Oh shit. Never calibrate to D50. You did the right thing by calibrating to 6500K. That's terrible advice. Better try a new lab.

Great. And your previous prints were too?

How odd. Can you check the colour space? https://damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html

There's no quick way to do it. You just have to add a Levels layer and pull the black slider in aggressively (suggest to about 90 for this one) then invert the mask, then paint on patiently with a 10% brush.

That's because its size is so big.

Sorry Phil, I'm an Aussie, I have no idea what's going on with large prints on your side of the pond.

Okay, if you like.

Oh heck. I don't know, sorry Martha. Just cloning, I guess.

Definitely use ColorNavigator.

Gosh, that's SUCH a good question, with no straightforward answer. You'll need to try it both ways - with the skin layer set above, and below, the artistic layer set, to see which you like better.

No, that's right, masking is the way.

I think people will love it.

Maybe something like this? https://max.mailbigfile.com/7b13b07f500f211b3660ebe1dfd50b36/listFiles.php

You're searching for evidence of a problem where no problem exists.

Yeah, no, you can't do this with Elements. But it doesn't matter too much.

I mean, are you dead sure they said "assign"? Can you show me their exact instructions?

You've posted three photos, and none of them were correct at the outset. So no, I need to see plenty more raw posts yet.

No, the results aren't "wrong". They just are what they are. That Delta column is just telling you how far each screen varies from the theoretical target that the ICC has set.

Hang on, this doesn't sound right at all. Are you sure they specifically told you to assign the profile?

Has the calibrator arrived yet, @Sndrkstr?

I think perhaps you misunderstand the purpose of calibration? Calibration exists BECAUSE screens aren't perfect. The calibration process finds those deltas (which exist, but are different, for every single screen in the world) and corrects for them.