Damien Symonds

Well, if your external screen was perfect, then yes, you'd want them to match Since it's not perfect, I held high hopes for the laptop one Let's go back to that 6500 error thing. I need you to do this.

If it works, it should be dead easy.

Ok, phew. Great. You say this like it's a bad thing?

Oh!!!!! I didn't know this! I should have looked at your sidebar, and I would have figured it out. Can you confirm you have the external screen set to "Extend" not "Duplicate" in the Display Control Panel?

Do you have any other computers in the house you could try calibrating? So we can rule out a faulty calibrator?

Gosh, I don't know, sorry. Does this thread help? http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/software/33084-here-fft-64-bit-photoshop.html

It's not completely infallible, but it's pretty amazing all the same. I use it a lot.

http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=185

No, put that out of your mind. Always better to err slightly low. Leave it where it is.

And? Is 83 good? Got a good brightness match now? This is annoying, but shouldn't matter, because once the calibration begins, the whole screen is filled with colour, isn't it?

Unless your screen's brightness setting is already at 0%, then yes, you can fix the "tad darker" part. Calibrate again at slightly lower brightness. Regarding the yellows and sky, no, possibly not. But I'll be interested to hear if soft-proofing helps.

What? What do you mean, why? Because of this thread, of course! This is a problem of your own making. You need to have xmp files so you can easily transfer your edits. Changing that setting back to how it's supposed to be will prevent this problem in the future, but I'm afraid I don't know how to fix the existing problem, sorry. There must be a way to export the xmp files from the database, but I won't be able to test it until tomorrow.

Oh crap. Change that back immediately.

Well, you'll have to unhide them to find out, I guess.

It sounds like you only copied the raw files, not the xmp files as well?

Very relevant: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/08/buying-wide-gamut-screen.html

Where? You weren't looking at Windows Viewer, I hope? Remember, only compare prints against Photoshop, no other program will do.

Oh crap, this is really bad. I think it'll have to remain on "Vibrant (Full)".

Yes, that's correct. Windows Viewer isn't colour-managed. Chrome isn't properly colour-managed either. Firefox is the only browser to use.

We can see from Chaser's profile that she's using a PC. But anyway, no, that's not an automatic assumption. There are a variety of ways to capture a screenshot on a Mac, and not all of them automatically save to the desktop. And it's not a jpeg even when it does.

Ok, first things first: https://www.damiensymonds.net/png-file-format You said "uploaded to FB" but neither of your screenshots show me the comparison between Photoshop and Facebook. One is Photoshop and Windows Viewer, and the other is Facebook and Windows Viewer. May I see the direct comparison? May I see a screenshot of that option setting?

We will get to talking about the style, I promise, but can we talk about this one in the class first?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/01/web-browsers-and-facebook.html

Can ya fix the nasty halo beside his face?

It's the only fully-colour-managed one. Safari is next best.