Damien Symonds

Well, I'd say the first step would be to take your Levels off them. Can you link me to some examples?

Hi Sara, is it stopping you from using Photoshop?

It's all part of the Layers & Masks Class. Module 7.

Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever crop during editing. You're doing the right thing by holding down the Alt key, and ignoring clipping in that area. No, the clipping doesn't matter. But are you sure about cloning? Maybe copying and flipping from the other side might be better.

Yes, it's a calibration issue. Windows Photo is not a colour-managed program. If it matches your prints, that is nothing more than STAGGERINGLY good luck. And of course it's pointless, because you need the program that you edit your photos in to be the one that matches your prints. https://www.damiensymonds.net/what2buy_cal.html

You don't "find" ACR. Nobody knows where it is. But when you double-click a raw file in Bridge, it automatically opens in ACR.

Yay!

Okay ... is everything good?

For use with your X-Rite?

Ok, interesting. Let me know how it goes.

I don't know, sorry. White LED seems most likely, but RGB LED is also possible.

@MelissaZeith?

How did you go?

@SarahLandry?

@Alessia?

Essentially, it's a laptop. And gosh yes, turn off the ambient light thing. And yes, keep it fairly dark when calibrating. I mean, it doesn't need to be pitch black or anything, just dim.

Did you resolve this, @SteveG?

Tara?

It's not ideal, that's for sure, but it's the best available to you, I'm afraid.

Yep. Remember, you need to make your screen match those pro lab prints as closely as possible. It doesn't matter if you hate the prints, you still have to match them.

Oh, sorry. When you said "almost the same" I thought you meant the screen was almost the same as the prints. Ok. Does your Spyder4Elite have "SpyderTune" like the Spyder5Elite does?

Excellent. Then that's the one you edit on.

Right. And what about comparison to the Macbook?

Forget about the printer for now. We just need to concentrate on the monitor first. How does it compare to the pro lab prints?

You can't use those prints for monitor verification. You MUST use pro lab prints for that. Do you have any on hand?