Damien Symonds

Oh gee, is that a touch screen? They're never very good Yeah, sadly it means that your screen isn't very good. Are you able to plug in a desktop screen to your laptop, and calibrate and edit on that? Well, tell me about the print comparison. How is the colour of your screen compared to the colour of your prints? Calibrating in the dark is fine. Calibrating in dim light is also fine. But no, don't calibrate with the lights switched on. Now we're getting to the crux of the issue. It's fine to edit at night, AS LONG AS your room light is nice and bright, the same brightness as daylight. Have you read this? https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/01/light-around-your-computer.html

Hi Brian, what will your advice be when Windows 11 starts to roll out (apparently later this year)? Get on board early, or wait and watch?

@Ami did that work?

Ok, design the A4 one first, and get it perfect and completely approved. Then save a different copy of it for the 900x600 version, and move the items around as needed.

Ah crap. That's nothing like A4 shape

NO! Trust me, this photo is crazy dark.

Dafuq? No, it's too dark! That hand!!!!

This is just a brightness/darkness issue.

Do you mean the i1Display Pro? I can assure you that doesn't matter a bit in this case.

@Ami, you need to turn this on in Preferences: It's very annoying, I know.

It definitely does mean that, yes. You're going to need to be SO careful.

Is there any room in your house where it matches?

Yeesh. Have you got a calibrator yet?

Thanks. And have you tried calibrating to 6500K?

Can you complete this sentence? "My screen is __________ [warmer/colder] than my prints".

I think it should be feasible. Can you go ahead and do your raw processing on the photo then post it again?

Shape is so important, and if they're asking you to design something that will be printed in different shapes ... well, that's definitely a hassle. Do you know the exact dimensions of the corflute print?

You may rest assured that the size doesn't matter. But the shape definitely matters. And the design you showed me above doesn't look like A4 shape?

Do you mean get rid of those wrinkles?

As long as all the text and logos are vectors, and as long as you Placed the image (not copied and pasted it in) so it's a smart object, the whole design can be resized to any size you want. https://www.damiensymonds.net/trainingprepress.html

Yes, but it all counts for nothing if the screen doesn't match the prints. How does the comparison look?

Yes, sorry. I'm glad you've re-done the calibration since this message, because that's what I would have told you to do. I've never seen that one before, sorry.

Just the luminance, I'd guess. But hey, we might be surprised.

The classes ARE the section for that.

https://ask.damiensymonds.net/forum/30-focus-checks/