Damien Symonds

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?

https://www.facebook.com/damien.photoshop/posts/1611507792230949

Did you try it, @Diana?

@nchilders87?

How did it go?

@Hama Photography?

@Patricia?

None of the linked ones are brighter than that And I doubt it's possible to find brighter ones

Did you follow my instructions here? I have a bit about "monthly recalibration" right at the very bottom.