Damien Symonds

Did you scan the photo yourself, or were you sent the digital file?

Well, I'll need to see one of the photos

3 minutes ago, Mariann Asbury said:

actually, I realized I had Yosemite...so I am upgrading right now to El Capitan.

... because that solves all problems ?

Well, you click in the little histogram icon just below your Character panel name.

I'm sorry if my Spyder instructions gave you the impression that you should only try numbered presets.  I definitely think you should try all the presets.

Somewhere in this long thread we discussed multi-page PDFs, I think.

2 minutes ago, Maria said:

Thanks. Any links to something online that explains to save for print properly with trim and bleed?

You'll need to speak to the printer about that.

3 minutes ago, Maria said:

For saving as an attachment which options would you recommend on the save window?

There's a "Smallest File Size" setting, which should be a good starting point.

40 minutes ago, erinpotter said:

I am!  I was considering that I am PRINTING photographs, however.  The manual does not specify whether photography is digital or printed photographs nor does it specify printing being press or photographic paper.

Printing refers to the actual printing industry, as far as I'm aware.  Graphic designers et al.

37 minutes ago, erinpotter said:

Anyway, I just manually adjusted reds.  I suppose I was expectin this "little thing" to be magically accurate...without manually having to do anything... possibly while making me a snack or pouring me a glass of wine.  Considering the price and all.

It definitely should be magically accurate.

21 minutes ago, erinpotter said:

And whites better match the "photography" setting than the "print" setting on the Eizo.

Yes, that's correct ... aren't you a photographer?

Yes, you should definitely try those presets.

But I still want to hear about calibrating another screen.

Hmmm .... so you didn't get any?

What was your intention here?  How did you think you were going to hide the parts?  You haven't positioned fabric or anything.  I'm confused.

Ok, I think this is just ok to show, if you're sure you have nothing better.

It's not perfect, by any means, but would sharpen up ok.

Thanks.

Are there any other parts of the photo that are more in focus?  The socks, or the teddy bear, or anything like that?

Hi Vivm, this link is provided in the "Read This First & FAQs" post.  Did you happen to see it?

Oh gee, the fabric is going to make this hard. May I see a closer crop of her tummy area?

May I see the boy's eyes also, just to be safe?

Sorry, I can't see the photo.

28 minutes ago, Nicole said:

Is your screen calibrated? 

Hint: Look at the profile details in the sidebar

1 hour ago, Mariann Asbury said:

Hi, my canvas came back super dark, what did I do wrong with my editing

Have you had canvases printed by this lab before?

I'm so sorry, this is outside my experience. I'm going to move this to the GenDisc area, in the hope that somebody else will have some wisdom.

It's very weird, because your Quick Mask button is presses, but the title bar doesn't say you're in QM mode.

That must have something to do with it, though.

The other thing we need to test is if you can Alt-click on the mask of another layer (one that's already been painted on) to see if it show the black-and-white view that it's supposed to.

May I see the whole screenshot, so I can see the little border around the mask thumbnail?

Not saying I don't trust you ... um, actually, yes, that is what I'm saying ...

Yeah, you simply don't have the mask selected.  Click on it.  (The white box in the layers panel, I mean)

Screenshot please.