Damien Symonds

But then, after that period, it goes back to being correct by itself? Without you doing anything?

Wow! And how long does the whiteness last for? A few seconds?

Ok, let's plug the desktop screen into your laptop and calibrate that. If it calibrates successfully, we'll at least know that the calibrator is still ok, and works ok with the Mac OS.

Do you still have your desktop computer as well?

When does it do this, exactly? Just randomly?

Hi Brenda, take a look at the troubleshooting section at the bottom of the Spyder 5 Pro instructions. They're not identical, but should give you some clues to try. Let me know if anything helps. How long have you had both the calibrator and the laptop?

How did you go?

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?