Damien Symonds

How did you go?

Plenty more yet.

It doesn't matter. It absolutely does.not.matter. Your master files can be 300, 240, 72, 89, 426, 138265, 9, etc. It's completely irrelevant. It only matters when sharpening for print, and you'll learn about that in the Sharpening Class.

@Kendra?

As part of your general workflow, do you mean?

@Jodie Williams?

Nerds will chew your ear about PPI vs DPI, but for all practical purposes, they're the same thing, yes.

Excellent. So yes, do exactly what they say. Give them a Level 11 quality Jpeg file, make sure the resolution is 300ppi, but make NO change to the image size. Send them the full-res file that you camera took.

Oh yeah, very vague. Unfortunately, quite common. Do you know if the banner is ONLY going to be your photo? Or will it be part of a design of some sort?

It's a really difficult one, especially if you've never used gradients before. Download my PSD to see the layers I used.

Oh boy, these aren't easy. This is the method you need to use: https://www.damiensymonds.net/preventing-banding-in-backdrops/ Does this look satisfactory?

When Photoshop is open, try pressing the F key a few times.

Is it only Photoshop that's different? Do all your other programs still look the same as ever?

Are you still there, @Kendra? I'm sure we're REALLY close to solving your hard drive issues.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/scanning-guidelines-for-old-photo-restoration.html

The Epson V line are excellent scanners. But not cheap. Unless you have a LOT of photos for scanning, the lab option might be better.

Right. I mean, it'll do a job ... but it'll be a poor job.

Yep, that's what I thought. Have you done this?

No.

No. Sorry, I can't discuss this here, only in class. https://www.damiensymonds.net/trainingsharp.html

Now, when you hover your mouse over that massive green area, and look in the very bottom left corner of the screen, it will tell you what kind of file it is, and where. For example, on mine, I've hovered over a big folder and found it's a set of raw files that Nicole sent me: Can you tell us what your huge green area is?

Click on the C drive in the top panel, then go to the Treemap menu and choose "Zoom In". Then show me another screenshot.

What about the Videos folder? Much in there?

That's excellent. We just need to make sure there aren't any anywhere on C drive.

Have you done what Brian advised, and move all image files off your C drive? It's still looking quite full.