Damien Symonds

Color blend mode affects everything. Hue blend mode only applies the colour to areas that already have colour, and leaves neutral areas alone.

Can you open them from inside Elements, though? I mean, using File>Open?

Looks excellent.

Oh! Lol, right. Also do the top edge of the baseboard.

Um, no, not the whole backdrop. Just those yellowed edge areas.

Great. Now, add a Solid Color layer of that desired blue, and set it to "Hue" blend mode. Mask it to just those areas.

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.