Damien Symonds

Because that's what the monitor profile is for, you see. To compensate for the natural crappiness of your screen. That monitor profile is a record of all the flaws of your screen. Photoshop reads that profile, and uses it to compensate for all the screen's flaws when showing you your photos. I'm over-simplifying things a lot here, of course, but that's the nub of it.

Ok, yeah, 450 is pretty darn high for brightness. I'm not surprised you're having troubles. Can you leave the Brightness at 0, and calibrate to "Native" luminance in the X-Rite software. Before you do that, though, may I see a pic of your piece of paper where you wrote down all the temperature results from the different colour presets?

Is it this one?

I'm so sorry, I should have mentioned, it will have to be an sRGB file, once you've fixed the untagged problem.

I can see that your masking is MUCH too distinct. You need to mask with a much bigger brush, so the blend is more natural.

Ok, try this one then? http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs2.html

Can you open a photo (a jpeg file) in both Photoshop and Chrome, and show me a screenshot to demonstrate the difference? (To open a photo in Chrome, make a new tab then press Ctrl O to open a file)

Because you didn't follow the link that Samantha gave you. http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html

Ok, so that's your priority. Fix your lighting.

Nowhere else matters except in Photoshop, in print, and in Firefox. Let's discuss the latter first - does Firefox match Photoshop?

So you're editing a photo in Photoshop, saving it and closing it, then opening it again, and it looks different from how it just looked when you edited it?

This sounds like an issue with your room light (too warm) not the screen or calibrator. Have you tried viewing the prints elsewhere, to see if they look the same?

Yes, but how are you viewing it?

Ok, so just clarify for us - where are you seeing this change, exactly?

Ok, fabulous! So all you need to do is add a very pale red Solid Color layer (I suggest R250,G225,B225) on "Multiply" blend mode, and mask it on.

May I have a link to information about it?

They seem a bit "flat". Did you process the raw files with roughly the same settings?

Yeah, it's banding. Ok, this is what I need you to do. Open the SOOR in Photoshop, then go to Edit>Assign Profile. Assign your monitor profile to the image instead of sRGB, and tell me if the banding gets better, or worse, or stays about the same, or stays EXACTLY the same.

May I see a screenshot showing your layers panel?

Is it just the bottom of the dress that needs more colour? From the tummy down?

What screen is it?

I'm going to move this into the Mac section. Hopefully Brian will know how to make something autorun on a Mac.

Oh no, no wonder it's so darn big! PLEASE start using real software. In the meantime, re-export it at 60 quality.

Yes, that all looks right. What did you choose on the 0-100 scale for the quality of the save?

Terrific! So all you need to do is open the photo in Photoshop, choose your crop tool, and enter the values they've given you: When you crop it, it will enlarge a LOT on your screen. That's a good thing. Then when saving the jpeg, choose 7 on the 0-12 quality scale. That will give ample quality, but keep the file manageably small. (Oh, and make sure you choose "Baseline Standard" in that window also).