Damien Symonds

I have no record of you in the raw class? AND resizing properly for print. This is crucial.

PLEASE change your life: http://www.damiensymonds.net/training.html

That stops TODAY. Have some pride in your prints. Now that we're looking at the 100% crops, can you see the problem? http://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/07/raw-noise-removal.html

Now, may I see a 100% crop from one of the "bad" jpeg print files? And maybe one from a good one too, for comparison.

Yeah, this is all wrong. You can't just upload uncropped, unresized, unsharpened files, and expect them to print properly. As I said earlier, your 8x10 print jpegs should be (usually) between 500KB and 2MB. http://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/09/cropping-tutorial.html http://www.damiensymonds.net/trainingsharp.html

I don't understand the problem? Click on the jpeg files that you uploaded, then show me those same properties screenshots. Showing the file size, the dimensions, and so on.

Then why are you showing me PSD details? They're irrelevant.

You're not uploading PSD files to ROES, are you????????????????

Can you clarify this? Did you mean 200KB? 8x10 print files should be (usually) somewhere between 500KB and 2MB.

Have you actually printed them? Or is this just what you're seeing in the ROES preview?

Did you do this? http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html

Which direction?

Hi Brian, it's this.

I very much fear the angles won't work. I'm trying it, but the angle is implausible. Nobody would naturally have such a flexible neck that they could turn their face so directly to the camera when their body is so side-on, if you know what I mean.

I'd love to see how this turned out!

That's an excellent question. Brian is a lot better to answer it, and I hope @Kim will chime in too. I'm going to move this thread to Brian's area.

Was that the colour change thing?

Yes, I'm confident that with the right Levels adjustments I can help you disguise that. Go ahead and do your raw processing as normal, then post again and we'll talk about the underwear.

Alas, no. Not with something artificial like this. Even if it's not there in Photoshop, you can't trust that it will print without banding.

Can't mathematics tell you that? 13x19=247 square inches. I fear I might be missing the essence of this question.

No, this looks as cheesy as hell. If it's meant to be a light source, it should actually be bright.

When did you begin to see it? After your raw processing, or after your Photoshop editing?

Absolutely. After only a few days, you'll be used to it, and wonder how you ever tolerated it so nuclear-bright before. This is your first step to proper accurate editing. Well done.

Ok, so there shouldn't be any ambiguity? Does your screen match your pro lab prints?

Hi mate, are these the instructions you were following?