Damien Symonds

Well yes, if it comes to it, you might need to plug a desktop monitor into your Mac and edit on that.

Oh yeah. A very very very pale yellow Solid Color layer on "Multiply" mode should do it, I reckon.

No, there aren't any colour controls on a Mac. Were you calibrating with my instructions here? https://www.damiensymonds.net/calibration.html

This looks absolutely fine. I'd say you've done nothing wrong. This looks like a print error. Ask the lab for a reprint.

This has been saved at REALLY low quality. Can you see all the faint squares in the detail? That means really aggressive jpeg compression. Are those squares in your print file, or did you merely accidentally save this 100% crop at low quality?

Yes, CleanUp is akin to Glary.

Oh, phew!! Ooh, how often do you use WHCC? Not in the slightest. I've been using it for years, and it's never interfered with anything. Did you see the class I wrote about Glary? Yes, I still think this might be a good idea.

That'd be great!

Is there another screen in the house you can try calibrating?

What can you report, @rswannabe?

Have they arrived yet?

The way I figure it, you should have two PSDs, that's all. One is the main master one with all of those 62 layers you mentioned. Then you merge the layers that you don't want people to access, and save a "for clients" PSD.

Why Tiff?

None of this makes sense. Why take the step of PNG? Why not just merge the layers?

No, honestly, both the X-Rite i1 Display Pro and the Spyder 5 Elite work great. Choose whichever one you can find at the best price.

That looks to be the one from the master file. May I also have the one from the print file?

This is a BAD idea. PNG is a pixel format.

Good job.

Firefox needs its colour management to be turned on: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/01/web-browsers-and-facebook.html

Oh yeah, you mustn't use Chrome! It's not colour-managed. Only use Firefox, or Safari is moderately ok too.

PLEASE post some photos in class, @SueR

Hi @Teekay, That's correct, but there's a little more to it than that. You must only compare to prints from a reputable pro lab, whom you can trust has calibrated THEIR equipment to the "world standard" that your correspondent mentioned. Yes, there is a world standard. If you calibrated to get a match to prints from a cheap lab in your local shopping centre (or even worse, a home printer), you're likely to be in trouble, you see? It's difficult to trust the cheaper labs, and impossible to trust home printers. As you probably know, even the very good labs print a tiny bit differently from each other. The "world standard" is genuinely hard to comply with. But they do their best. When you're calibrating and comparing, remember that your room light plays a heck of an important role. They are reckless. They definitely should be checking against prints to confirm their calibration. This might not be a calibration problem. It's more likely that she is editing in the wrong colour space. If she's editing in Adobe RGB, or even worse in ProPhoto RGB, this can happen. Do you know, or can you find out? However, it could also be a viewing problem at your end. Which web browser do you use?

Lol, yeah, that's really surprising if you're not expecting it! What a silly setting.

What this might mean, though, is that you'll need to keep two PSDs. One with your fonts still embedded, in case you need to change things later. And one for sharing, with no fonts in it.

Just before you save the final version, go to Layer>Type>Convert to Shape. This will mean your text layer is still a vector (infinitely scalable) but no longer editable as text, and doesn't need fonts.