Damien Symonds

This is such a good question. It's a question that I hope everybody asks of themselves. Data is never safe unless it exists in at least two different places. So yes, if your photos are on an external hard drive, you need to have a constantly-updated mirror copy of that drive's data on either another drive, or on a cloud service. Having two drives means that if one drive fails, it's very quick and easy to get up and running again from the other drive. But it leaves you vulnerable to disasters such as fire or theft. On the other hand, keeping your files on a cloud server means that they're safe from fire or theft at your house; but of course the file transfer is significantly slower.

Ok, well, I guess it'll have to do. At least you do have a print match now.

If your screen has to go down to 60 to match your prints, it means your room light is too dim. Have you compared screen to prints during the day yet?

This means your room still isn't bright enough

Ok, and have you tried 70?

What Luminance target are you choosing for the calibration?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/desktop-monitor-brightness/

I don't understand what you don't understand? Your.screen.must.match.your.prints.

I have no idea, sorry. You need to ask this on a Canon forum, I guess.

It's a catalogue file. She's sent you a catalogue instead of the actual photos.

Right.

The globes have to be bright enough to provide the same amount of light at night as you'd get through the open windows during the day.

If you're at 80 and your screen is still brighter than the prints, then we must turn our attention to your room light. Are you sure it's bright enough?

No, that's NOT the one you're following.

@HayleyJ you're following the wrong instructions, ya wally! You're supposed to be on these ones: https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/36351-i1studio-pc01/

Remind me which screen you have?

It should be okay, yes.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_monitor/

And for clients, this: https://www.damiensymonds.net/client-photoshop/

I don't know. There's no point that I've ever found.

Only save. Never Export. Exporting as as flaky as hell.

Ok, let's rule out the latter straight away. Images for print must be "Save As". They can ONLY be saved one at a time, bulk saving isn't possible. For watermarked web ones, have you set this up yet? https://www.damiensymonds.net/act_web.html

And do you watermark them?

Great! And do you tend to do them one at a time, or in bulk?

First, can you confirm you've read and understood this? https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/02/trash-those-jpegs.html