Damien Symonds

Well, it's easy enough to check. After making the design in FF, open it in Photoshop to check, yes?

Oh good grief. Ignore that nonsense. They don't know what they're talking about either. MUST you use this Fotofusion nonsense? Why not just make your collages in Photoshop like the rest of us?

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

Great. I see no problem here. It's just a simple matter of Fotofusion not being a colour-managed program.

I'm confused. Please take both screenshots exactly the same way.

http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs2.html

Thanks so much. And to provide comparison, could you open both side-by-side in Photoshop and show me a screenshot of that as well?

Ok, that's great news. Now, could you show me a screenshot showing the two files in Fotofusion?

The lab (or their website) will tell you their advised resolution. Most labs use 300, but always check, because some differ. Once you have that number, then yes, you crop each print file to the exact size you need, at that exact resolution. Then sharpen it, then save it as a jpeg, ready to send to the lab. No, you can never use one file for different sizes of prints.

Correct. Correct. There is no automatic way. Have you seen this? As long as you end up with jpeg files, it doesn't matter how you got 'em. No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The 11:15 principle is ONLY for files you're selling to clients. When you are printing them yourself, you crop to the EXACT size and resolution they need to be. http://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/09/cropping-tutorial.html http://www.damiensymonds.net/trainingsharp.html

This isn't filling me full of confidence. Please check this way.

That's weird, isn't it? I suggest you ask her to email it back to you, so you can very closely compare the files on your screen.

I'd give a heck of a lot to know if this happens at another lab.

I have to go to bed now, I'm beat. I'll check in to see how you went in the morning.

No no, that's ok! That's probably good, actually. Hold on, I'll upload the PSD ... Download the PSD file

Gosh. Maybe 5% was too low for the opacity of the noise layer?

Before I explain it, can you tell me if you have any photos of her where her face (and therefore her eye) is bigger in the shot?

Do not sharpen before putting the images in the design.

These can be tricky, for sure. How does this look?

I cover this at length in the Sharpening Class. Time for a re-read?

Gosh no, ACR is too much trouble. Just select them all in Bridge and use Tools>Photoshop>Image Processor.

So it does advance? If you remember to press the Update button? You really need to calibrate another computer.

Remember, what you "think" or "like" or "remember" is completely irrelevant. We can only discuss the direct print to screen comparison. How does your screen compare to your prints? Are you remembering to press the "Update" button?

This is tricky, you'd need your outsourcer to edit with the 2010 sliders so that you could open it at your end. If they edited with the new sliders, you wouldn't be able to use 'em. Have you talked to them about it?

In what way? I'm so sorry, can you elaborate on this question? Which sliders? Oh yes, it matters. 90 is excellent. If you were at 120 before, that was definitely part of your problem. 120 is always too high. Oh, good question. Yes, all calibrators fail eventually, although we like to get more than a couple of years out of them. It shouldn't take so long, that's for sure. To check, you'd need to calibrate another computer with it, and see if it does the same. Do you have another computer in your house?