Damien Symonds

This is a really tough one. How would this be?

Your photos are all untagged. This is really bad practice. Make sure you always embed the profile when you save.

Hi Sarah, could you post the whole photo for me?

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Hi Stacey, I'm not Brian, and I don't really know what I'm talking about, but I'm wondering if you've tried plugging in a desktop screen to the laptop; and if the problem still occurs with that screen? If it doesn't, that would seem to suggest a problem with the backlight. Needless to say, be VERY diligent about keeping your laptop backed up at all times, while this problem is persisting.

Hold on, have you tried a different destination?

Please don't put up with this crap. Now is the time. https://www.damiensymonds.net/bridge-30-day-challenge

Did the restart fix the problem?

That's hard drive space, not RAM.

This is impossible, as far as I know. Please check again. After you've restarted.

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Light at the bottom will look weird. The light part of the gradient should follow the natural flow of the light in the photo. How does this look? (I haven't done the bottom part yet, but it's easy of course):

Yes, I'd say it would be the safest idea.

No, there should be no need to redo prints.

Just check as is for now.

Can you make a new blank document, and show me how you'd like the blue to look?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/195567190503489/permalink/969328583127342/ With the HSL tab, I assume.

Right. So ... how close are they?

Only a tiny minority of very vivid colours. 99% of the colours in 99% of your photos should print exactly as they look on your screen, no lab profile required. This is SO important.

It might matter, yes. Again, it comes back to this - you'll need to calibrate both, and see which one is better. That's the one you'll edit on.

It's VERY important to understand that the screens are very unlikely to match each other exactly. After calibrating both, you'll check them and see which one matches your pro lab prints most accurately. That's the one you'll use for editing on - the other one will be for panels, email, etc. It's also critical to remember that the screens have to be set to "Extend", never "Duplicate". I'm sure you already know this, but I wouldn't be doing my job properly if I failed to mention it.

Great! Then yes. It is very simple - it calibrates whatever screen you have the software window open on. So calibrate one screen, then drag the window to the other screen, and calibrate it. Calibration instructions here: https://www.damiensymonds.net/calibration.html

Yep. Sharpening next. Well no, Skin next. Then Sharpening.

Attached to the same computer, do you mean? Or attached to different computers? Which calibrator do you have, and what screens are they?