Damien Symonds

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Is this a profile pic? Is that why you want to make it 720x720?

If it suits you to rename, rename the raw files before you export anything.

Huh? Why would your jpeg files have different filenames from their raw files? Your workflow is a mess. PLEASE switch to Bridge.

This is very unwise. Saving PSD files before you even know if you'll edit them is just chewing up your hard drive space for no purpose. I urge you to stop this practice. Just export the web-resolution jpegs to show the client, then go back and make PSDs only of the ones they choose. That's correct, 8-bit is enough in almost all cases. The only photos which need 16-bit are ones that you know you'll be doing quite aggressive tonal edits to in Photoshop (for example very hazy backlit photos). Actually, as strange as it seems, the resolution is completely irrelevant. You can choose 300, or 72, or 24, or 11, or 5, it honestly doesn't matter a damn.

Oh, right, I understand.

That would be useful, thanks. No options of other rooms to use instead?

Why? I don't know, sorry. I've never observed a difference, and I've used Liquify a bit in both programs.

No, you'll need to find a blonde example. The hair colour is SO important.

That's a lovely pair of photos, but definitely not a match for yours. You'll need to find example photos with dark backgrounds like yours; or find a photo of your own with lighter tones. Also think about the lighting. Your photo is much more shadowy (on her face etc) than the linked ones.

To a specific photo, thanks.

Gosh, I don't know. How big is your room?

May I have a link?

Yes, you're right on both counts - they are sRGB (which is great) and they are quite dark. So yes, this is exactly what you need to do: Until your calibrator arrives (have you ordered it yet?) you MUST darken your screen's brightness setting until the images in Photoshop match the darkness of the prints in your hand.

Oh yes, it will help. But it's only helping the lesser of your two issues, I fear

I don't know what to tell you, sorry It's so weird, I would have thought that twelve 60W bulbs in a small room would have been enough.

I'm not aware that they'd behave any differently, no. Raw data is raw data. I wonder if the dynamic range will be smaller too?

How did it go on the full-size file?

How are your prints going, @OTOSPhotos?

Whatever happened with this, @funlovephotography?

@Summer Michelle?

Did this problem ever occur again, Sarah?

@Monique Graham?

How are your photos turning out, @Ange?

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