Damien Symonds

No. If you want weaker colour, change the COLOUR. Opacity is important for gradients, but NOT for gradient maps.

I ... don't understand what you don't understand. The two little squares on top have to be solid black all the time. They are the opacity of the colours. The two (or more) little squares underneath are the actual colours that we see. They are in the same position as the histogram - shadows at the left end, highlights at the right end.

Because white is your foreground colour, of course.

Yeah, lots of people ask about this. Ultimately you'll have to decide for yourself how you approach it - the whole speed vs cost thing. I urge you to take the Bridge Class. It's SO important for this.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/exposure-triangle-hoax/

Oh, good. How far through are you?

Anyway, we're getting off track. I'm glad you've ordered WHCC prints. Once they arrive, you can calibrate your monitor again to ensure a perfect match. Then PLEASE dive into your Raw Class!

It does monitors as well.

This is the one that I have: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007TCITRS/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwdamien-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B007TCITRS&linkId=93d3a5a4945931a04bd18ff6ec7c8876 There are newer versions now, but it still does the job.

That means squat, I'm afraid. The most expensive home printer in the world is meaningless unless you also own the necessarily expensive printer calibration device. Do you own that device?

In the meantime, PLEASE dive into your Raw Class! Great.

Oh yeah, a home printer definitely doesn't count. Gotta have pro lab prints. Which lab did you order from?

@gelz I know you're online right now. Please reply!

Update the V10 one (it will update to V11) and you're good to go.

@Alicia, now that your new computer is up and running, I'd love to see some new photos in class!

Of course!

What a load of crap.

@Lorie, please confirm you've seen these instructions.

Here it is, step by step. First, open a whole lot of jpegs into ACR (as many as your computer can handle, this varies from computer to computer. Hit Cmd A to select all of them: Then go to the Crop Tool, and choose 5x7 in the drop-down. Immediately this crops ALL of the images to 5x7: Then quickly click on them one by one to check that you're happy with the crops, and modify if you're not: It's SO much faster than the old way of manually dragging the crop marquee for each photo.

I already told you how it works in ACR2021! How do they know?

It's incredibly foolish and short-sighted, but yes, it would work.

Look, it's really easy. You just open your batch of files into ACR (either jpegs or raws) then select them all, go to the crop tool and choose "5x7". It crops them all at once, but of course crops them all with a generic central crop. So then you quickly click through the whole set, adjusting the crop location for each one. It honestly could NOT be any faster. It's definitely no slower than the old version.

Who is imposing this stupid rule? Can you explain the problem some more?

Oh geez, that's REALLY dangerous. Don't do that.

Of course it is.