Damien Symonds

Dark room for calibration is useful, but IMMEDIATELY after the calibration is finished you must turn the lights back up to full brightness (or open the blinds, or whatever) so that you can compare the screen to prints in proper bright lighting.

Calibrating your screen at night time is fine, as long as the artificial light in your room is as bright as daylight. There should be no (well, negligible) difference in the light around your computer 24/7. Yeah, see how it goes.

I'm always so regretful to say this, but there might be a problem with the calibrator. Is there another computer in the house that you can try calibrating, to see if it also gives you a weirdly low brightness result?

Wow. 20 is only about a quarter of the brightness of how a screen should normally be. Is that how it looks and feels to you as well?

Ok. So when you're at this stage ... ... you're having to take "Current" down to 20.1 to get a print match?

Thanks. And still a Mac desktop computer?

@Gabby Jeffcoat, can you remind me which calibrator you have?

Blimey, this is really really awful. Are you SURE your screen matches your prints?

Yes please.

Then why does this look so terrible? May I see the whole photo?

Glad we caught it. Now could you do this? https://www.damiensymonds.net/thread2.html

How did they all go, @jeanbrunsonphotography?

I'm old-school. My off-site backup is literally disks kept at my friend's house (and I keep his disks at my house). Some more info in the second half of this article: https://www.damiensymonds.net/how-do-i-retrieve-lost-or-damaged-images/

Oh crap Tara!!!! https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html

PLEASE don't wait any longer.

I'm so sorry, I can't discuss class matters outside of class.

Hi Cindy, are you asking why the light isn't the same in each shot, despite having the same camera settings?

Channel Mixer: R +103, 0, 0, 0 G +83, 0, 0, -5 B +72, 0, 0, -6

STOP USING STUPID FUCKING LIGHTROOM.

Because your files have turned into ProPhoto RGB somehow.

For this one, this Channel Mixer layer: R +100, 0, 0, 0 G +85, 0, 0, -5 B +80, 0, 0, -6

For this one, this Channel Mixer layer: Red +50, +50, 0, +10 Green +50, +50, 0, -7 Red +50, +50, 0, -9 Then clone out the white dots.

If that bothers you, you'll need to do the whole handyman method: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/04/the-handyman-method.html

Some of these are very mild. So let's see if we can get away with the easiest method of all. That is, add a Solid Color layer of good skin colour, and set its blend mode to "Color". Then invert the mask to hide it, then use a 10% white brush to paint it over the blue areas.

Yeah, you have to get that 8.92GB up to at least 58.92, I reckon.