Damien Symonds

Ok, first things first. Do this. Also, this.

None of that stuff matters, don't worry. The big difference, as I've already said, is that you have Bridge now. Concentrate on learning that.

And Bridge?

The bolded part is the issue. Not all viewers are colour-managed, you see. Only ever use Bridge for browsing on your computer, and only ever use Firefox for browsing on the internet.

Oh, ok, good. I was going to express disappointment about your raw processing Yes, the focus is quite acceptable. Yes, I think it's feasible, but VERY difficult. You'd need to allow an hour or two, I reckon. Unless you happen to have any other photos taken at the same angle, without the little guy there? Or at least with him in a different position?

Did you shoot this one in raw format?

@Summer Michelle?

@margaretbonson?

How did you go?

@Aubrey?

No, prints are never too dark. It means your screen is too bright.

This is not a new problem. Chrome has always been shit. I'm not sure why you haven't noticed it before? Some housekeeping - are you happy with your monitor calibration? Does Photoshop match your pro lab prints?

Yep, great. I can see the box is checked, so that's good. Let me know how Firefox goes. I can see in your profile that you use a laptop, and calibrate with an X-Rite. Do you only use the laptop screen, or do you also have a desktop screen plugged into it?

The two screenshots I posted there are from the "Save As" and "Save for web and devices" windows in Photoshop. How do you save your photos for web?

Go to the Window menu and open the History panel. It gives you your last few steps, so you can go back. You should have been doing the same in Elements, by the way. In Elements, it's called the "Undo History" panel.

When you say online, is it everywhere? In particular, how do they look on Facebook? When you're saving for web, have you double-checked that you're embedding the profile? I can see that you're using Chrome, which is part of the problem for sure. Firefox is the only browser to use.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2013/09/grabbing-700x700px-100-crop.html

The link to instructions is in that post.

https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/131-read-this-first-posting-guidelines/

It's a tricky tool all right, but yeah, I think this looks fine.

Well, can't you use Edit>Transform>Distort, and pull up the bottom right corner?

It's great!

Come on, you HAVE to get yourself a calibrator. If you spend money on a screen before a calibrator I'm going to so damn angry.

This (the bolded part) is a BIG problem. Coupled with this ... ... I am SO damn worried right now. A colourful screen is not necessarily a good thing. In fact, a lot of times it's a very bad thing. Have you compared your two screens to pro lab prints?

Phew! *wipes brow* You need to look up the specs of your laptop's graphics card, to see what is the highest resolution monitor it can support. I've no particular reason to think it would have any problems, but it sure would be a nasty shock to buy a new super-duper-high resolution screen then find out your lappy couldn't handle it. Unfortunately (to preempt your next question) I don't know how you'd find that out. Google, I guess. No, we can't necessarily assume that. If your laptop's graphics card is good enough, it'll support higher resolutions than the native monitor, I think. But yeah, check.