Damien Symonds

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.

Yep, I just emailed you.

Well, if you can tell me your Facebook name, I can check for you.

You don't need to pay full price to take them again, by the way.

Yes ma'am. It's all there.

I'm so sorry, Julie. From the posting guidelines: Please consider the classes. They'll change your life.

This might be relevant, actually. It looks to me like she's applied some kind of clumsy tone-mapping, which can look nice on landscape photos, but not on people. Or, maybe I'm overthinking it. It might be clumsy use of Photoshop's awful Shadow/Highlight function.

I guess the first thing we need to accept is that we can never get rid of the glare altogether. Perfection is impossible. We just want an improvement. With what you've shown me, I think there might be enough detail available to slightly improve her left (our right) eye; then copy and flip that to help out the other one.

Gee, I wonder why there's such an oddly fuzzy patch on the left side of this one?

Great. Hell no. That'll be much too bright.

Oh, tough. May I see 100% crops from 24 and 26 as well? To see if there are enough little areas to build with?

Any time you find one that's unavailable, hit the "Report post" button just above it: Then I'll know it needs to be updated.

Hi Suzanne, did you find this page in your search?

What? No, you put it in the Raw Class Deluxe Posting Area, exactly as you just said.