Damien Symonds

Oh yeah, 120 is madness.

In your case, the studio match might be necessary. You have to search in your Mac settings to find what's causing the brightness to dim. It'll be some kind of power saving thing.

Table lamps are tough. So directional, you know? Hopefully the ceiling light will be enough.

This this is a problem with that particular print run, don't you see? Your lab cocked up. Don't let them tell you different. First, make sure your calibration is perfect, so that it still exactly matches the older set of prints you have. Then hit the lab, all guns blazing. Don't take their crap.

But the recent prints are dark and red?

http://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/01/light-around-your-computer.html

Don't show the lab!!!!! Just compare them to your screen, and tell me what you see.

Because you foolishly downgraded to a Mac, you have very little control over its screen. You might need to buy a good desktop screen to run off it.

Your light worries me most of all. I fear you'll never get a consistent match without consistent, and good, room lighting.

NEVER trust anything the lab says. Get some old prints out, this is VITAL.

Have you also compared an older set of prints, to make sure this wasn't just a bad print job?

Which one is your primary editing monitor?

Which one?

Hi, it's not quite clear from your post - are you following my calibration instructions here?

What I mean is, originally the screen was warmer than the prints, and now it's cooler than the prints?

Hi Annette, No, this is not a channel mixer fix, unfortunately. Did you shoot raw?

Can you post the file?

So that's the opposite of the problem you reported yesterday?

Is it truly a backup drive? If so, that's excellent. Just throw it away, buy a new external drive, backup the files from your internal drive again, and move on. However, I fear it's not truly a backup drive? Your desperation indicates that you have your only copy of some files on that drive? http://www.damiensymonds.net/how-do-i-retrieve-lost-or-damaged-images.html

Download the PSD

Now, after making you go to all that effort, I'd better find out if you actually like what I had in mind. How's this?

Hi Shirly, can you update your profile details? Your sidebar still says "PC desktop". Ta. Do you have any other computers in the house you can try calibrating, just to see that the Spyder itself still works ok?

That's right. That's definitely not a tutorial, it's a specific piece of advice for a specific photo.

No.