Damien Symonds

This is the best I can manage: The process was as clumsy as hell, and you wouldn't learn anything from it, so I won't bother sharing the PSD. Just copy and paste this file onto yours.

Hi Carol, gee, that's annoying, isn't it? Just to make sure we're on equal footing here, do you mind taking the 100% crop like this?

Bugger. Ok, I need you to do this.

Oh gee. Do you have any other computers in the house?

Is it still doing this? The "bam" thing?

I'm so sorry Diane, giving opinions on "artistic" editing is not the purpose of this site. Believe me, you do NOT want to hear what I think of this. This site is for clean processing only. I would, however, be very grateful if you'd post your raw edit in the Raw Class for me.

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".