Damien Symonds

FHD on a 32" will give an uncommonly large pixel pitch for this modern day. What is the pixel pitch of the screen you currently work on? https://www.damiensymonds.net/measure-the-resolution-of-your-screen/

No, Queensberry is fine to use, you just have to ignore their stupid Adobe RGB suggestion. Are you REALLY sure your room light isn't too yellow?

I've re-made every.single.page. It's taken ages, but I'm so happy I've done it. But there are some folders on the server - eg damiensymonds.net/actions or whatever - that can stay exactly as they are. I certainly don't want to nuke the WHOLE server. I just want to remove wordpress, then start uploading my files to replace the site.

Hey Brian, I have my new website all coded and ready to upload. I'm ready to purge stupid Wordpress from my life. I wrote to DreamHost to ask their advice about removing it. This is what they said: Just checking to see if you have any wisdom to add to this.

Levels now.

Great!

No, I mean, apply it once, but stronger. As strong as you need.

Gosh no, don't do that! Only ever apply it once.

Sorry, applied what three times?

It's still way too busy.

Come on, it needs to be a LOT more blurred than this, if you want it to match the one you linked above.

Gosh! Thanks for letting me know.

Rats. I don't know what to suggest, sorry

But yes, of course also try to choose photos that you can actually hang and enjoy in your house.

Advice about prints here: https://www.damiensymonds.net/cal_starthere.html

You don't have any? Hanging on your wall?

I see that your sidebar says you don't have a calibrator. Can you, at very least, compare your screen to prints and turn down the screen's brightness to match them?

This will be your first step: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/06/blurring-background-false-dof.html

No, it'll be Levels for the first one. Can you do your raw processing on the photo then post it again for me?

Hi @AngelaT, The first one can be removed, I'm fairly confident about it. The second one can't, but does it even matter? I think that's quite a charismatic reflection. The third one can't either, I fear

Yoohoo! @Jadegirly2k?

Yes, I think that will be necessary. It's possible that Windows has over-ridden those reminders, I guess. But your new software might give you a chance to start afresh with the reminders anyway. Thank you, and the same to you and yours.

Oh, you need to look at the individual (Red, Green and Blue) channels, not the RGB one.

Yep, just the brush. I made the initial shape with a 100% opacity brush, then lowered the opacity to modify it. Have you Alt-clicked on the mask to see it in black-and-white? Yes, it will be a different levels layer for each reflection I'm afraid. You can tell that by looking at which sliders have moved on the levels layer - either the ones at the white end, or the ones at the black end.

No, you're right. There's no need for the new blank layer beforehand. Old habits die hard.