Damien Symonds

Yeah

I'm sorry it's bad news. For a long time I had an article on my website about the Smile, because I bought one too (for testing purposes). And it was so terrible that I wrote a strongly-worded article warning everyone not to buy it. In my recent overhaul of the website I removed that article because I thought the Smile was safely in the past. I didn't realise it was still haunting some people.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/which-monitor-calibrator-to-buy/

Oh shit. Well, that's why you can't get an accurate calibration. Throw that thing in the bin (it's not even worth selling) and get a proper one.

Ignore the lab profile for now. It's only for photos with very vivid colours. Let's concentrate on what's important. Which calibrator do you have?

Whoa, shit, no, that's NOT how you use a lab profile. This is how you use a lab profile: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/03/bit-about-soft-proofing.html

How did you "use" it? That's a load of crap.

Hang on, did they really request that? What did they say, exactly?

Are you saying that Bridge isn't showing you the thumbnails for your PSD files? That's very unusual.

Nobody will ever know. You did an amazing job.

Looks fantastic!

Yep, now spend some time fine-tuning the masking.

This one

I reckon the new part of the blanket should go entirely behind the old part. Instead of going over in on the left side.

Great! So you can either: simply choose to edit solely on that one, and only use the other (cooler) screen for emails and stuff; or keep going with recalibrations on the cooler screen (continuing to follow the troubleshooting part of my instructions) to try to get it warmer and better.

Which screen matches your prints?

Ok, try again at 70. If that's still too bright, then it definitely means that your room light is too dim.

What brightness target did you use that time?

At the beginning of the Raw Class. First or second module, I can't remember.

Recalibrate with lower brightness, exactly as my directions say.

The graphs look good, but it all means nought if you don't have a print match.

@Brian are you around? Why is Stephie's hard drive saying it has an icloud drive on it?

66 still isn't enough. Gotta clear off more space.

The files you're actually working on at the moment should be on your actual computer. Only use the cloud for the jobs you've finished. How's your hard drive free space now?

Ok, first thing first, have you made sure there's NOTHING on your desktop? https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/33422-ive-been-saving-on-my-desktop/