Damien Symonds

I wonder if you could speak directly to the printing company for advice? Ideally, you want them to give you the profiles. http://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/05/please-be-wary-of-cmyk.html Do you provide them with RGB or CMYK files?

There are a few aspects here, and none are good. Have you ever enquired how they calibrate their screens? Am I to assume from the wording of their correspondence that they don't run their own presses? They outsource the printing to another company?

No, I'm so sorry That's not even big enough for a 6x4 print

Oh Jennifer, I'm so sorry to hear that news! How awful. What are the pixel dimensions of the files you have?

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Yes. Millers, Mpix and MpixPro (ha, pro!) are completely useless for this reason. If you calibrate to make your screen match their too-warm prints, then you won't be aware how blue your photos will appear to everyone else online.

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No, that's exactly the right thing to do. Flattening would be catastrophic. Never flatten the layers.

Hi Lisa, I've moved this into the Lightroom section, and I hope @Christina Keddie or @Jason will be along to help shortly.

Ok, great. Now, have you tried following the troubleshooting at the end of these instructions? It's not the same version as your calibrator, but the troubleshooting should be roughly the same.

Ok, I feel it's really important to establish the connection between these two statements: And to ask you if you've read this article (particularly the very last paragraph): https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/01/light-around-your-computer.html

But your original post indicated that you'd edited on your laptop for a length of time before you got the desktop. So did your laptop screen ever match your prints?

Great, thanks. So which screen matches your pro lab prints?

Just to clarify - we're talking about two separate computers here, right? You don't have your desktop screen plugged in to your laptop computer; you actually have a whole separate desktop computer?

Hi Melanie, Yeah, it's very very difficult. The Spyder Elite gives the best control for it, but even then it's not guaranteed by any means. Can you tell me how the screens differ in appearance?

Is it possible to show me a couple of example images? Yeah, definitely try to keep to raw editing only.

In the Options Bar, you have to make sure your gradient is set to "Foreground to Transparent" not "Foreground to Background".

For this particular image, these numbers should work fine, and be fairly easy to mask on, except for immediately adjacent to the calf and wheels. Similar numbers should work for others.

If your images are already reasonably good in terms of their exposure and white balance, you can get results every bit as amazing as raw. But jpeg is far less forgiving than raw, you see. If you have been working in tricky light, and ended up with a set of underexposed or overexposed photos, your results will be MUCH better if they're raw files.

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Hi Piero, You only calibrate in the dark. Immediately after calibration, you turn the lights back up (good light) to check the calibration by comparing your screen to pro lab prints. If you find the screen's brightness isn't correct (either too dark or too bright), you turn the lights off to calibrate again to a different value. Then turn the lights on to check again. Etc. YOU MUST NEVER EDIT IN THE DARK. This is so important.