Damien Symonds

Come on Valentina, help me out here   What colour would you like the balls to be?

1 hour ago, Valentina said:

the hair on her face (next the her ear). Is there a tutorial you can direct me to?

May I see it up close?

Yep, jpegs for sure.

When people talk of "magenta vs yellow" it makes me suspect they're myopically looking at skintones only.

Can you promise me you're looking at ENTIRE photos when you're telling me that the print is yellow?

No, come on, these are crazy noisy.

Oh boy.  This is going to be a challenge.

Go ahead and do your raw processing first, then post it again for me.

Which Spyder4 is it?

Either way would be fine.

Oh gee, the whiskers will make it more complicated, but we'll see what we can do.  Go ahead and do your raw processing as usual, then post this 100% crop again for me.

What single colour would you like them to be?

And what will the photos be used for, exactly?

Gee, this is a fat lot of BS.  They don't need PDF files.  Just send jpegs.

No, you've done exactly the right thing.  Your edited master files must be in sRGB, as usual.  Converting to CMYK is simply part of the output process, just before saving as jpeg.

19 minutes ago, Valentina said:

Thanks! I have just read both posts and I am using Photoshop. Should I just ask them to be more specific about the CMYK requirement or do you need a specific information?

No, that's all.  You just need to ask exactly what CMYK profile to use.

19 minutes ago, Valentina said:

There is no text or added shapes in my pictures, do I still need to keep the adjustment layers as layers and don't sharpen the flattened image before saving the file as pdf?

It's just photos?  Nothing else?

http://www.damiensymonds.net/scanning-guidelines-for-old-photo-restoration.html

How many images did you try?  Sometimes these kinds of problems are specific to only one file, and sometimes they're widespread.

By the way, you must NEVER use the Eraser tool.  Ever.

I think the Handyman Method should do ok.

1 hour ago, Valentina said:

Bleed: 6mm, no crop marks, no print marks

Do I set the bleed as extra 6mm (right or/and left)

This is an excellent question.  I would assume that they mean you should allow 3mm extra on each side, for a total of 6 extra millimetres.  So your entire file would be 303x426mm.

1 hour ago, Valentina said:

or should I be prepared that 6mm within the 297mm will be cut out?

This is extremely unlikely, but to be safe, you should make sure that nothing you don't wish to lose is closer than 6mm to the edge.

1 hour ago, Valentina said:

Color: CMYK

What about the color? Never worked on a CMYK and not sure how to set it.

They haven't given you enough information yet.  Have you read this?

What software are you using to design this file?  If Photoshop, please also read this.

Good job!

Right, so maybe it is a corrupted calibration profile?  I'd definitely calibrate again.

Right.  And no calibration?

5 minutes ago, Lynn said:

And I know your rules state that I can only ask one question in a thread, but as it isn't an editing question, is there a way to check that I have put myself on the waiting list for the raw class? I thought I'd received an email to say that I had but I can't find anything in my inbox now. Thanks

Yes, you're on there, don't worry.  You'll hear from me soon.

7 minutes ago, Lynn said:

I know my phone isn't the best thing to be looking for but I can't see them on there... I'm really confused now. I haven't had this issue at all until recently; is there any chance it could be related to calibrating my screen? 

What screen do you have?

As I can't see what you're talking about, it leads me to think it's a problem with your screen, or your absence of calibration, rather than your image files.  Have you viewed this post on another screen?

How does this look?

Done using this method.

Download the PSD file

No, sorry.

But as long as you did the entire edit non-destructively, with adjustment layers, you can simply drag and drop them to your other photos, by doing this.

No, just the cloning step.  Where you partially cloned out the cream dog in the foreground.

Should look akin to this: http://www.damiensymonds.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/blur6.jpg