Damien Symonds

It doesn't matter. The purpose of monitor calibration is for your screen to match ALL prints - not just good ones. In fact, it could be argued that it's even more important for your screen to match your bad prints, so you can SEE if your edits are bad before you print them. Does that make sense? Don't over-think this, my friend. Just calibrate and compare.

Have you tried this?

It's not ideal, but yes, it's something you could experiment with.

Well, to be honest, it sounds like you HAVE found out that it is wide gamut. If the calibration is better, that sounds good enough to me. And that's good news - it's nice to have a W-G monitor. Just be aware of the browsing and other issues that I discussed here.

Usually it has no choices there if you are running the software without having the Munki plugged in to the USB port.

Oh gee, turn the pressure nonsense off. If you insist on having it turned on, you'll need to go to the Brush panel (accessed via the Window menu) and play with the spacing, the smoothing, and (I think) the shape dynamics. But seriously, turn it off.

The noise layer is clipped to the gradient layer. Therefore, it is automatically applied to the parts you change.

Some other recent examples here, here and here.

Linda?

How did you ever go with this?

How's the calibration now?

The only way to do this properly is to replace the background altogether. https://www.damiensymonds.net/preventing-banding-in-backdrops/

Download: PSD 1 PSD 2 PSD 3

Ok, so it'll be the eyedropper method as described in this article: https://www.damiensymonds.net/levels-eyedropper

Has this been printed yet? How did it turn out?

Well, I have to think about the method I suggest to you, you see? What works for this photo might not work for another photo. So, could you show me one or two other close-ups of the problem as well?

Yeah, I can live with that too.

Ok. I'd asked for two versions of the photo - both before and after your fix. That would really help me if you could provide it, thanks.

Do you only have this one image to deal with? Or does this problem pop up a few times?

Sorry, forgot to add the photo:

This should work: Download PSD file Add the Channel Mixer layer first. Then go back and make the Levels layer below it, invert its mask, and paint on gently until the darkness is gone.

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So you want to keep the box shape of the background?

Ok, thanks. And may I see an actual photo you've taken (with a subject in it), before and after your wall fix?