Damien Symonds

Yeah, that looks better.

DO NOT GET ONE OF THOSE.

Hi Cynthia, have a browse through the Ask Brian section. This is been discussed a number of times.

Lovely. What's your intention for the background? It would be very easy to replace it, to remove that clutter. Do you intend to do so?

Ok, good, so the TOGGLE profile isn't corrupt. I'm so sorry, I don't know. Everything seems to be working the way it should, I don't know why you're not seeing your screen change when you choose TOGGLE.

Good, so does mine. So we know the DisplayProfile app is working that far, at least. What about if you open a photo (any photo) in Photoshop, go to Edit>Assign Profile, and assign the "TOGGLE" profile. Do you see a difference to the photo? It should make it slightly lighter and a bit duller in colour.

If you click on one of the "gmmp" profiles, does it throw you an error message?

That sure is odd. Have you restarted since the last calibration?

So when you click on TOGGLE, then back again, you see no change?

No, that's not what I meant at all. Read the instructions again.

It works fine for me on Win10. May I see a screenshot of your DisplayProfile program?

Then that suggests a faulty calibrator, wouldn't you think? Have you raised this with X-Rite?

Is the problem exactly the same as with the previous monitor? Both "pink blurry messes"?

What calibrator is it?

Turn off "Show Backdrop".

Further to that, have you ever soft-proofed?

Oh, I'm sure I've heard of a plug-in that will do this, but I can't remember it I'm going to move this post to the general discussion area, in hopes that somebody else knows.

No, sorry. Look for a sharper one.

@nery?

If Photoshop was easy, it would be Lightroom. Your investment in Photoshop skills will pay off in a MUCH better portfolio over time.

Yes, of course. The action has to be set up in PS, then once it's set up, you run it from Bridge. It is exquisitely more powerful than LR.

Not ACR, but Bridge, yes. http://www.damiensymonds.net/act_web.html

Yes, that is catastrophically bad. You must NEVER do that. Send both raw files to your editor, then do the combination after they send them back.

Oh, this is so annoying, isn't it? From Bridge, there are two ways to open a raw file - one is Cmd O (for "Open") and the other is Cmd R (for "Raw"). Can you try both, and see if one works?

Then you need to email back, and ask for more information. We need to know exactly which CMYK profile they need.