Damien Symonds

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.

No, not exactly. You wouldn't make a copy of the file to edit. You'd simply make sure you had the jpeg file (that you sent to the lab) safely stored in a folder somewhere. Then you can start editing your raw file again as you always would. You definitely wouldn't have two copies of the raw file, nor of your PSD. Right.

I think you said you have a Spyder5Pro, is that right?

Did you ever find a link to the exact bulbs you already have in the room? I'd be very interested to see that.