Damien Symonds

Yeah, go for it. It should help performance.

Then may I see a screenshot again?

Not as blurred as I expected.

The arms and chair and books probably should have been cloned out altogether. In fact, to be ultra safe, it might have been better to clone the child out altogether. The radius of the cloning has to be bigger than that of the blur, you see.

Sorry, forget it. It's simply impossible.

You can't have multiple cloning layers. It has to be just one layer.

The best you could do would be to lower the Lightness slider of a Hue/Saturation layer to maybe -65 or so, to darken it a lot. The pattern would still be pretty apparent, though.

By the way, which technology type are you choosing? http://www.damiensymonds.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/07i1dppc02.gif I'd expect it to be Wide Gamut CCFL, unless you have better information. Also, is this the only screen you have connected to your computer? Also, do you have any other computers in the house you can try calibrating, to make sure the calibrator itself isn't faulty?

Granddad's, yes. Grandma's, no.

Ok ... so ... just follow the troubleshooting part of my instructions.

I don't know what you expect me to say. GET IT RIGHT IN RAW. DO NOT MOVE TO PHOTOSHOP UNTIL IT IS PERFECT. IF IT IS NOT PERFECT, START OVER. DO NOT USE THAT SHITTY CAMERA RAW FUNCTION IN PHOTOSHOP.

No, I really need you to spell it out for me. What background?

Because you now have the layer selected, not the mask. Click on the mask, so it has the little border around it. PLEASE take the Layers & Masks Class. For only a few dollars, it will make everything a lot easier for you.

Your post seems to indicate you tried calibrating using my instructions, THEN got prints later. But that can't be so. My instructions clearly state you must have prints BEFORE calibrating.

You forgot to turn off the Blur Copy layer, I think?

PLEASE read module 5 again and again and again and again and again until it sticks.

No, the white balance is still wrong.

Weird. May I see a 100% crop of the area?

Oh, if only you could! I hope that you will jump at the chance to upgrade to Deluxe when it arises.

Yes, and yes. But it should be pretty darn blurred at the bottom, all the same.

Gosh no, worse!!!!!!!! Please read Modules 5 and 6 again.

Yes, but can I see your clean raw edit first?

No, not even close. The links you gave me have MUCH more blurred backgrounds than that. Don't skimp on this. The background blur is crucial to the style.

Well, I don't know anything about NIK, I'm afraid, but I'm quite sure you should start with proper clean raw processing as usual.

If you have NIK, don't worry about anything else. Have you played with it yet?