Damien Symonds

Yes, for sure. Now, you'll need to tone down his glowing ears somehow. May I see them close up?

That's ok, it's a link that people can click on and all credit goes to the owner. The first thing that strikes me is that you made the kids too bright.

Point 1 in the guidelines.

http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_smlgmt1.html

You must NEVER touch that control panel. Ever. It clashes directly with the calibration software.

Got anything to report?

Yeah, these are excellent screens by all accounts. I'd jump on it.

That all sounds ok. Nothing jumps out as being risky. But I do strongly recommend running Glary. Ok, so we're back where we started. I need you to disconnect the external screen, calibrate the laptop screen, and work with it for a day or so and see if the same flickering problem is evident.

Can you do this for me?

Oh, interesting!! Which version were you using before CC?

Of course we hope that tech will live longer than two years, but gee, all this flickering sounds bad. Can you check the cables to make sure they're plugged in firmly? How long has this problem existed?

Oh crap. This sounds bad. How old is the screen?

Well, that's gotta be driving you crazy! Click on the images of the screens in the control panel, you'll see you can drag them around so that they match your physical setup. (This has nothing to do with calibration, I'm just helping before you tear out your hair ) Randomly when, exactly? After calibration again? Or just ... randomly?

Ok, and is this how you have it set up? Your external screen sitting on the left of your laptop screen?

One more thing to check - when you were changing the screen to "Extend", did you make the external drive the Main Display?

Is it still doing this?

Please consider renewing the Raw Class. It's completely overhauled and updated, and heaps better than before. And as a previous participant, very cheap for you. Also, I assume you've seen this?

If it's already correctly on "Extend" then I'll be sad, because that's the most obvious cause. In that case, I'd need you to calibrate the laptop screen itself, to see if the same pink problem occurs. We'd be looking for evidence of a faulty calibrator, you see. Let's hope it's not that.

Just checking that you saw my comment above, about "Extend".

My first thought is that it's because you've got the external screen set up to "Mirror" or "Duplicate" the laptop screen. It must be set to "Extend".

Ok, this is important info. Which screen are you calibrating, that's having this problem? The laptop one or the external one?

Hi Brenda, In Edit>Preferences>General, are there some "Floating" options?

Thanks. Are you following my instructions here? Your profile says you have a laptop. Is it just the laptop, or do you have another screen plugged into it?

Huh. That was easy!

This is a fabulous question, but probably needs a broader range of answers than you'll find here. I'd suggest posting in a photography group. I think that everyone finds their level, you know? The amount of time you spend per photo is ultimately dictated by your number of available waking hours. You have the luxury of spending solid time on each photo, making it a glittering masterpiece. But folk shooting a lot will have to limit themselves to raw processing and just a bare minimum of PS work.