Damien Symonds

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?

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If in doubt, always start from scratch. Including this. I guess that remains to be seen, doesn't it? Depends how bad they are. By the way, please don't wait a moment longer to take the Sharpening Class. If you have clients, you need this class, period.

Does your printed version include the troubleshooting steps?

Here are the PSDs: Download Download Download You'll see the method is roughly the same for all. Two of them use the green channel, one uses the red channel.

Ok, how about these two?

Ok, let me play with the method on the others ...

As a quick starting point, is this in the ballpark?

Hi Misi, are you following my instructions here? You need to understand that your prints are ALWAYS right. Whether you like them or not, they are correct. So, if your screen doesn't match your prints, it's your screen that's wrong.

Yes, that's what a lot of people used to do.

Yay!

It doesn't matter. Just get those damn prints, fast. It doesn't matter if they're good or bad.

Skin is very close, yes. A few weeks, I hope.

Well, I duplicated the Background layer, lowered its opacity by half, then nudged it across to where the bits and bobs were just hidden. Then increase the opacity to 100% again, added a hide-all mask, then started painting on gently. Did you read the L&M Class while you were in it?

Since you haven't shown me the whole photo, I'm not entire sure what we're working with. My instinct would be to move the whole baby in a bit:

8GB is the bare minimum of RAM that Adobe recommends to run CC. So if you are in the habit of having a lot of files open at once (I can see five in your screenshot) that might play into the problem. I urge you to pay attention, over the next few days, to the number of files you have open whenever this crash occurs. Also, run Glary immediately, and monthly thereafter.

Number 6

Looks good.

Oh? Can you update your profile? It still says "Elements".

If you had Photoshop, this might have been one for the Patch Tool. But just plain ol' Dodge and Burn will do fine.

Just click "Home" or the "askquestions" logo at the top of the page, then scroll down to the "Classes" section.

Ignore the "Brightness: 120" part. That's madness. I don't know why labs insist on saying that. Gamma 2.2 and Temp 6500 are good guides. As long as you follow my instructions here, you'll be fine. Have you got your ProDPI prints yet?

I'm not concerned about that at the moment. Can you show me the two black-and-white photos, properly edited?