Ellie Cotton

thanks I'll try that!

But my questions is - when I change the monitor colour setting to 5000k, why does suddenly the calibration software think that the display is too dim? It won't proceed to do a full calibration beacuse I can't get anywhere near the target brightness.

The brightness is about right, not so much of an issue as colour. But I can't get the colour right with SpyderTune, I need the screen to be much warmer (yellow) to match the prints, but it either looks too cold or too green. And I'm moving the sliders all the way to the top, trying out various scenarios.. Any suggestions?!

So I followed you instructions Damien and dialled the color setting down to 5000k which looks a little better, but the monitor settings were on 6500k. If I do the callibration and this time set the Sypder to 5000k and the monitor to 5000k... the brightness is an issue. When it gets to adjusting the brightness, even at 100% brightness on the screen that's reading 70, and the target is 120! Tried changing the Spyder brightness from 80 to 100, still can't get within the target, and then from 100 to 120, still can't get within target.. Any suggestions how to proceed?>!

Thing is, I don't really trust them. I don't know whether printers in the UK are more flakey but US / AUS but I often seem to get different results week in week out. And others say similar. Or do you think we are all just badly callibrated?! I am guessing so!

ah rats! well yes I do have others but I am a bit disorganised with my filing systems and especially after having to reinstall windows and all my software etc. I found one other I printed recently and although very subtle, the print it does seem to be greener. so looks like the calibration is wrong. I will try and adjust is, and also send some more to the printer and try again. Thanks! This drives me nuts as I am a stickler for skintones.

I just had to reinstall windows and everything - bah what a drag! Anyway so I started from scratch with Spyder 5 Elite, and followed you calibration instructions to the letter. After calibration my images look great on screen, just as I expected with clean colour and clean accurate skin tones. However when I compare them to my test prints I got printed last week, the test prints look quite green/or perhaps too warm. As the screen looks great and I often use the CMYK numbers to get good skintones in photoshop, my instinct tells me that it's the prints that are wrong. I used a pro-lab but occasionally have had issues with them in the past. Is there any way to check which is wrong? And do these images look slightly green/yellow to you? The white background behind my son shoudl be white/grey and certainly not the cream colour I'm seeing on the print. The background behind my daughter should be greys with very little greens or yellow in there. On my screen the skintones aren't warm, as my children have very British pale skin in real life! Thanks!

That's ok - thanks for your time - I just wanted to know I wasn't ducking out of the editing due to laziness / inexperience if you see what I mean. I can tell mum it's a no, and I think she'll be fine about that. Thanks again !

thanks - hope this helps!

I started working my way through the class materials some time ago so haven't got far enough through yet.. so apologies in advance if I'm not looking the right place. My client realised that she didn't change her daughter's shoes at the start of the shoot - in later images she's wearing white bridesmaid pumps. I don't have a way to composite - no similar poses. However I'm wondering if lightening the shoes a bit so they are fit a bit more with the light dress would be best bet? I think the client might go with the dark shoe images so it's not a complete dud but wanted to see if I could do something to improve... Thanks!