Damien Symonds

Hi Jennifer, can you provide a photo with a suitably blurred background?

It's not perfect, but no, it's definitely not crap. Easily passable.

You're most welcome. PLEASE don't wait too long to take the Raw Class. It will fill in a lot of gaps for you.

Oh, I'm so sorry, I forgot. You'll need this.

Yes.

Here's the PSD for that one. And here's the PSD for the other one.

A bit darker like this?

It sure is. I'm increasingly concerned about your computer.

Oh heck yes you should do it!!! The Spyder Pro is SO much better.

Something like this?

Oh my. That's beautiful.

Of course. The dress is still blue.

Both looks great to me. Dell are the more established player, but my own experience with LG has been excellent too.

You'll need to either: Take the studio photo again with your lighting at the side, to make the same shadowing that the background photo has; or Pick a different background photo with lighting suitable to the studio photo. Don't waste another minute trying to make this work - it won't.

Which Spyder3 did you have? Also the Express?

There are some reviews assembled here: http://www.damiensymonds.net/lab-reviews Avoid any labs (like Millers) which make a calibration recommendation of 5000K or 5500K. 6500K is the modern standard. Well, the trouble with calibrating at night is that you have to wait until the next day to see if the calibration was successful - that is, compare your prints to the screen. Then, if it's not successful, you have to wait until the next night to re-calibrate, and so on. Calibration should take minutes, not days. Yeah, I reckon with that blind closed, this would be ok.

Sorry Elisa, the brutal truth is that they're probably going to be way too terrible. But let's try. Did you shoot raw?

Almost there, but not quite.

Well? Can you post it?

Sorry, can you explain the problem a bit further?

Great! Then that's easy.

Of course. It's a white dress, isn't it?

No, here we are again. You have to do the raw processing first.

Go for it.

Is this anywhere close?