Damien Symonds

Terrific!

No, sorry, we can't use that. If the wall isn't white, it has to at least be markedly lighter than the lightest hair.

Nothing should be on Multiply mode, so I'm not sure what you're referring to there. Is your second gradient a Radial one, like mine?

Too much Color, not enough Luminance. PLEASE read the module again.

What???? It's a sea of noise.

Yes, we might be able to fix this. Go ahead and do your raw processing first, as normal, then post the 100% crop again for me.

Ok, no trouble. Can you show me one of the white-background photos, so I can experiment?

Gosh no, see how the calibration goes.

Download the PSD

Would this be ok?

May I see a screenshot?

Ok, so you're thinking that you'd like to be able to do this if you had a fake grey backdrop?

Adobe RGB monitors are mostly purchased by men with small penises. I'm not sure what the female equivalent is.

My instructions cover this. Neither. For now, you must not touch the soft-proofing. You MUST get the calibration to satisfactorily match your prints without the assistance of soft-proofing. But later, when you are soft-proofing, you always leave it unchecked.

Ok, no trouble. And how will you use it? I mean, how will you photograph your subjects if not in front of actual thunder grey seamless?

You have to free yourself from these chains. Once you truly know how to process, whole worlds open up to you. Here's the PSD file.

Oh crap. It is a great calibrator, except when a screen is too warm. It has buggerall control over that

Would this be ok?

Oh Chantelle, please don't wait any longer to take the Raw Class, I beg you. Your edit makes me cry a little.

Sorry I didn't get to this last night. State of Origin, you know. In the first one, there's some slight mottling; but it's not evident in the second one. Should there be mottling? Or are we talking about a fairly smooth gradient?

Fabulous. That's enough time.

We'll talk more about the quality aspects once we have the resolution information from the printer. For it to look amazing, you'll need to take this. It will blow your mind, I promise. But you'll need to do it fast. When is this job due?

Oh bummer. You really need to talk to your client, and ask to be able to communicate directly with whoever will be doing the printing. Stress the importance of this, from a quality point of view. He will be receptive, I'm sure. Once you have the printer's details, contact them and ask them what resolution they need the file to be, and also if they need any bleed (it's likely they'll say the exact dimensions of 1200x4800 will be fine, but let's not leave anything to chance - it's possible they might need a few extra millimetres to allow for trimming).

Then I can't help you, sorry.

Hi Amy, Are you printing it yourself? Through your own lab, I mean? Or are you providing the file to the client, who will arrange the printing themselves?