Damien Symonds

Bugger. In the ColorMunki's preferences, under "Technology Type", what did you choose?

Yes indeed. Ok, next step. Can you go to Photoshop's Edit menu, and choose "Assign profile". From the Profile drop-down menu in that screen, choose the monitor profile you most recently created with your ColorMunki. Immediately you choose it (as long as the "Preview" checkbox is checked" you should see the image change somewhat. I need to know if the change makes the problem better, worse, about the same, or absolutely no change.

So many things to remember when you're installing everything on a new computer. Don't forget to turn on the document profile. Also, your image is untagged, that's bad. Always remember to turn on the profile checkbox: Enough housekeeping ... back to the topic at hand. Your screenshot looks flawless to me. What is the problem I should be seeing? If you zoom in to 100% view, then show me another screenshot, would I see it?

Ok, nothing jumps out at me there. Can you open a photo in Photoshop (any photo, it doesn't really matter) then show me a screenshot of your whole screen, so I can see the issue?

No, I mean a link to the manufacturer's website, so I can see ALL the specs.

Ok, may I have a link to the computer's specs?

The problem is the same in Photoshop too, I assume?

Ah crap, that makes it hard to troubleshoot, because we don't know if the problem is the calibrator or the computer. Do you have another computer in the house you can calibrate with it, to see if the same problem presents?

Just the images? What about the Lightroom interface itself? Sliders and menus and stuff? Are they ok?

What about the Munki? Is it new too? Or had you used it successfully on a previous computer? It's not a touchscreen one, is it?

Yeah, gosh, that's weird. Is it the laptop screen? Or a desktop screen plugged into the laptop?

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.