Damien Symonds

How long since you last used the Spyder successfully?

ok, can you post a couple of the photos here?

Yes, just crop it a tiny bit loose.

For as long as you persevered with this flawed reasoning, your photos cannot be their best. Please update your thinking.

Please follow my calibration instructions to the letter. It might make a small difference, but probably not as much difference as you're talking about here. How many prints do you have there with you?

Please, I beg you, let me change your life. Notwithstanding the flaws in your raw processing, she is a very shiny person, isn't she? After you've fixed the raw processing, I suggest you try this for the shiny bright areas. And this for the hot shadow areas.

For the ACR screenshot, can you show me the Detail panel so I can see your noise removal settings?

Here's the file

Oh Leah, I'm so sorry, I missed your response. I'm glad you like it. Essentially, I did it using this method.

It's certainly in the ballpark. How's the print comparison?

I'm so sorry, this is out of my league. In what way isn't it working? Is it not launching at all?

Yep, choose Laptop. You are dreaming. Put it down to 100 where it's supposed to be.

Have you checked for upgrades to the Spyder software also?

This is completely baloney, forget it. May I see some 100% crops of the issue?

I don't have any "tricks" for you, sorry. Just very very patient cloning. Allow at least an hour.

Oh, they are SO CUTE!!!!! This is a tricky situation, all right. This is the best I can offer:

Can you show me some of the links they've shown you?

http://www.damiensymonds.net/

Of course.

5760x3840 is twenty-two megapixels. That's plenty. The PPI value is meaningless. However, it might indicate that your files are jpegs? If so, that would be very bad.

http://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/11/why-ppi-doesnt-matter-yet-another.html

Yes, of course Lightroom is colour-managed.

Oh, how annoying! Do you only have one screen attached to your computer?

Correct.

Yes, it's new. Only worry about the top readings, ignore the other two.