Damien Symonds

Well, how would you describe the light in your room? It should be as bright as if you had the windows open and daylight flooding in.

I'm really sorry, I know I answered this thread when you posted it, but my reply doesn't seem to have posted. I tried everything I could think of, and found nothing that helped, I'm so sorry.

Are you certain your room lighting is not too warm? That would exaggerate the problem.

Ah, ok, never mind.

Is Native a long way off?

It's always great if you can use Native, but that's not always the case. I would be astonished if it got them all. Just choose the one that looks best. Calibration will deal with the rest of the colours. For now, just whatever roughly matches the prints. Later, during calibration, try 80.

Oh, it would be a good idea to manually lower the brightness to a reasonable level before starting those other judgements. Remind me the full list of the colour presets that your screen has?

Right. I fear that your screen is too bright, you see.

Terrific! Good lab. So, is your monitor calibrated following my instructions here? The Spyder's own instructions are woeful.

Thank you. And which lab do you use for your prints?

Which Spyder do you have?

No, that's not right. It's still dreadfully dark.

I don't know, sorry.

Well gosh. I wish we'd checked this right away. From your wording in your original post, I (foolishly) assumed you'd already done so. Yes, calibrate again. Compare ALL the prints you have.

Right.

Ok, that's good. It will almost certainly be easier to make the wrap blue as well. I think it's ok to make this change as our first step in Photoshop. So go ahead and do your raw processing on this photo, then post it again for me.

Absolutely, yes. I didn't realise you hadn't already done so. This is CRUCIAL.

Recalibrating to match the prints would be fine if your screen didn't match your older prints. But I'm sure you told me that it still does?

Hi @Beachbum, what about the wrap around the baby? Is it to be navy as well?

Are you there, @LSSmith?

What about older prints? Do they still match your screen ok?

Please @Tarria?

Please answer this question, @Stephanie Simmons.

I hope you got a good report.

@Stephanie Simmons, are you still there?