Damien Symonds

And raw files open ok?

Please answer the question.

Textures are very easy to add. You'll be able to find heaps of them (both free and paid) by simply googling. Then apply them to your photos using blend modes (and maybe masks) as I discussed in the Layers & Masks Class, of which I know you are already a member.

This is so, so awful. Please buy a monitor calibrator immediately. Then take the Raw Class without delay.

Do you mean you can't open any PSDs or TIFFs at all? From anywhere? Have you tried various files from various folders and hard drives?

Please read the posting guidelines, especially the first point.

What happens if you manually copy them to a folder on your hard drive first, then try to import them from there?

Oh, web???? Great! Just make it maybe 2000 pixels on the longest edge, then save as a jpeg. In the window there you choose the Quality level of the jpeg save, you'll see it gives you an estimate of the file size.

Yeah, it won't be easy cloning.

Yes, this will be passable.

Is that their only stipulation? Anything about physical size, or shape?

Darn, it's exactly the same spot on both sides, isn't it?? It'll just have to be very careful cloning.

Ok. You might need to do this: http://www.damiensymonds.net/2013/10/how-to-properly-re-install-spyder.html Then follow my directions here: http://www.damiensymonds.net/cal_S4P_pc.html

More information ... which Spyder4?

It's not complicated. Which calibrator do you have?

Because, it seems, the monitor profile must be screwy? Only the Adobe programs utilise the monitor profile, you see - Windows itself does not.

If that's the case, then something has gone badly wrong with your calibration. This is not an Adobe problem. How long since you last calibrated?

No, this is perfectly fine. The Photoshop histogram has always behaved differently from the ACR one. You never need the Photoshop one. Close that window and never bother with it again.

Yeah, I think so.

Before the part where it ran through all the colours, it should have done the brightness thing. Did it? I need to know that reading.

But you saw it in my instructions, yes?

Remember the brightness stage of the calibration process? The screen would have looked something like this: http://www.damiensymonds.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/23s5p14.gif Or this stage a little later: http://www.damiensymonds.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/29s5p16.gif Can you remember what your brightness reading was?

Oh, so the prints ARE darker than the screen?

In the prints, do you mean?

You didn't mention a problem with brightness. Only that your prints looked yellow? That's a colour problem, not a brightness problem.