Damien Symonds

Yeah, that's all about the lens, I reckon.

Great.

Hi mate, do you mean your client has ordered large prints? Or large digital files?

Please follow the posting guidelines. Most importantly point 1.

I think he will find that VERY flattering. Well done. Please don't wait any longer for the Skin Class. It will change your life.

How did you go?

Roughly 30 and 2, I think.

Thanks. This is either a job for Frequency Separation (google it), or my Cellulite action. If you use the latter, you'll need to add a blank layer above it, and low-opacity clone out some of the most stubborn scars. Remember, the goal is to reduce the scarring a flattering amount, not get rid of it altogether. Here is my play:

Have you considered simply buying a second monitor? There are plenty of advantages to dual monitors. You already have a good monitor for editing, so you could get a cheaper (but big) one to sit next to it for Netflix.

Of course Brian is still around. I'll move this post into his section. The BenQ does look like overkill. I'm pretty sure Brian will recommend sticking with Dell, and going for a larger UltraSharp, eg 27 or 30 inch. But I'll let him confirm that.

Wow! Amazing! I think the camera-left iris looks bigger, though?

May I also see a 100% crop?

Oh, duh! Everything looks pixelated at 200%, ya wally! If it looks bad at 100%, that's when you need to revisit your sharpening, and give it less.

How are you zooming on FB? And in Photoshop, what percentage are you zooming to?

As well? As well as what?

Sorry, I don't understand the question. In what program are you viewing?

Zoomed in how far?

Ah. That shouldn't be. DNG files should be slightly smaller than their equivalent raw files. If yours are so big, it means that you checked the "Embed original raw file inside DNG file" checkbox when you did the conversions. If that is the case, you might be able to extract them again, and they might have the ratings still attached. I don't know know how, but a quick Google search will tell you.

This is madness. You shouldn't have kept the original raw files when you converted to DNG, nor should you keep them now.

I'm so sorry, I know very little about how presets behave on jpeg files. In any case, I consider my area of expertise to be around making photos look good, not awful.

Yeah, it must have been either a really awful in-camera setting, or some kind of equally awful import preset applied, eh?

May I see one of the ones with "normal-ish" skin for comparison?

And done.

Great. Which lab do you use?

No, all calibrators do laptops and desktops just the same. As I said in that article, it comes down to how close your laptop screen is already.