Damien Symonds

I said you shouldn't have to go lower than that, but it seems likely that your room light is bad, so you'd better go lower.

Well, calibrate with lower brightness, I guess.

Always sRGB. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2014/06/the-wide-gamut-myth.html 8-bit is fine in almost all cases. There are really only two exceptions: Photos with very smooth areas (eg seamless backdrops or broad blue cloudless skies) that present a banding risk in 8-bit; Photos that need more than the usual amount of Photoshop editing (eg severely hazy backlit photos).

Here's my alternate method: Download PSD

Google and YouTube will find you lots of tutorials, and there are lots of free actions for it too.

If it doesn't work, maybe something like this?

Have you tried frequency separation yet? It might be good for this.

I wouldn't have thought so ... but maybe you do.

No, they literally do mean RGB. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/11/colour-modes-vs-colour-spaces.html Stick to sRGB.

@Karlie Kingi is your calibration ok now?

It's dark, but all the detail is visible, just. If you can see visible detail on your screen, but not your print, then it's a printing problem.

I don't know anything about Nations, but I do know you must never use Bay. https://www.facebook.com/groups/askdamien/posts/4143619009031601/

New lab time.

Right, but it's enough to check, isn't it?

No, not browse in Bridge. Just open.

But if you're actually IN Photoshop 2021, and open a raw file from there?

What about if you go to Bridge and go to Preferences, and look at the File Type Associations section? Can you force it to use the older PS?

Did you also revert to previous Bridge?

Why are you going back one version?

Just make sure you have the desired version of Photoshop open BEFORE you open ACR.

Nah, the focus looks fine to me.

I don't think it's possible with Elements, sorry.

Wow, that first one is really good considering the backlit conditions.

What am I looking at?

If reshoot is an option, you should definitely do it.