Damien Symonds

Ok, so these are the instructions you're following? Including completely exhausting the troubleshooting section?

Ok, I still need more info. Which X-Rite, exactly?

Wait, what? It says Spyder in your sidebar.

Also, you've previously mentioned a new Mac. Will that be for editing?

Ok, great. Remind me which Spyder you have? Oh, and what make/model of screen?

This is really vital. We can't move forward until we have an answer to this. Either something is different recently, or nothing is different and your prints have always been dark and cool. Which is it?

Ok, so how do we reconcile these two statements?

I need clarification on this. Are you saying your screen has changed recently, or not?

Has anything changed with your computer recently? New hard drive, new graphics card, new screen, anything like that?

Let's not do anything crazy just because of one recent print batch. Do you have any of the older prints still around? If they still compare to the screen the way they always did, we can assume this was just a bad print batch, and you can legitimately demand a reprint. However, if the screen is now wildly different from the older prints as well, it's a different matter.

Hi Rochelle, No, even though the web is the interface for this particular procedure, the files aren't "for web", as such. They're for print. So you would save them as high quality jpegs (suggest level 10) using "Save As" in the usual way. Or Image Processor. I urge you not to wait any longer to take the Sharpening Class. You'll cry real tears when you see how much better your printed stuff could have been.

Because it's least disruptive to the tonal range capabilities of the screen. In short, it reduces the risk of banding. Forcing an artificial white point can induce the risk of banding. On some screens it's not a problem, but on others it really can be a problem.

What do you think? Did you try it?

The hell you have.

Let's not worry about that until the raw processing is done. Can you post in the Raw Class for me?

Be a good sport. Donate a fiver to charity.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/caps-lock-trap

Duh. Because you have Caps Lock on, of course. Same reason you're shouting at me.

Download the PSD

Nope. They look exactly the same at 100% in Bridge as they do in Photoshop. Show me screenshots from both please.

This one has slightly stronger shadows, if that's what you mean:

No, you definitely can't use this one. This should never have passed your culling process.

What kind of detail, exactly?

Luckily she's facing pretty much directly at the camera. So you should be able to carefully clone/heal the little patch on the camera-right side; then copy and flip that whole area to replace the big problem on the camera left side.

@lkmlee?