Damien Symonds

Yep, we need the closeups again.

1.3MB sounds perfectly normal for a file of that size. However, you're frightening me. Does your canvas need wrapping?

Find anything?

I'm really uncomfortable about this. Do your prints look yellowish when you just walk around with them? To other rooms, and outside?

Sorry, it won't work. If you take away the wall and the shadow, the hair will just look inexplicably squashed flat on that side. Anyway, it would be impossible to take away the shadow, I'm afraid.

Yep, looking good.

This is the best I can offer, I'm afraid. Just to reduce the colour a little.

Good! Now keep tweaking the gradient so that the colours match the existing colours down the right-hand side of the subjects as closely as possible. The better match you get down there, the easier your masking task will be.

This is a common glitch. The Spyder seems to get confused when the gamut gets close to full sRGB. Ignore the message, and press on with "Normal".

Yes, I would reset defaults first. I suppose you could do this to be really thorough, but I'm not sure if it's necessary.

Don't feel bad. This kind of edit is insanely hard.

Maybe this? But don't expect miracles.

Well done!

http://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html

Ok, great. Well, this'll be nice and easy. Since you said your scanner is ancient, go ahead and photograph them. Let me know when you've done so, and we'll discuss the print steps.

Lol, well, measure them!!!! You can't print a 6x4, for example, if a foot is 6.5" long! You need to plan this.

The Ultrasharps are great. If you see a variance in price that you don't understand, check the gamut. The more expensive ones might be wider gamut.

At this point I need a bit more info. What size print/s do you intend to get?

Both are great products, and I feel the X-Rite is a little more user-friendly, but the Spyder Elite has better controls if working with multiple monitors, in my opinion. However, you'd be happy with either one. I hear ya! I bought mine from overseas for the same reason. Thankfully I've never needed support or a return, but you're right, I would have been in some bother if I had.

Are you sure you need to photograph them? Scanning would be better, if you have a scanner.

Great! May I see?

I have no reason to think the profile is wrong. But you won't know for sure until you get the photo printed.

I've had great success with this method.