SueRoberts

Ughhh! I'm so frustrated right now.

Okey dokey. Then I'll do it that way then. I can't find how to reset to defaults on this thing though.

Ohhhh. Ok.

Hey Damien! Are you tired of me yet? LOL How do I fix this bright spot on her hair. Not sure how this happened.

No, it's not a laptop. It's a desktop, all in one, 27 in screen. I ain't hauling that around! So I'm going to recalibrate. Should I do as a laptop or desktop?

I have a Dell All in One. Spyder 5 Pro.

I honestly can't tell you how long it's been since I've compared my prints to my screen. I don't know how long my screen has been too bright. I usually calibrate in the middle of the day with no lights on. I may have done it with lights on. I truly don't remember. Today I did it with no lights on and the curtains pulled to make sure there was no direct light on my screen. If my screen was too bright wouldn't my prints be too bright also?

My lighting varies throughout the day and I usually edit in the evening and now that it's dark early here I have the overhead light on. If it's on the weekend then I just have window light. So I guess I don't have the greatest lighting but my photos have NEVER turned out this bad. So now that I have my screen brightness as low as it goes is this going to change my editing on my photos? I think it's a bad print on the lab side. I've always been happy with everything else and I calibrate at least every 6 weeks.

The brightness on the calibration came down considerably and I can't go any lower on my screen. I know I keep blabbing on here but I'm ticked off that those photos look so shitty.

On those collage prints it seems like the contrast is off and their faces are red and they just plain ol suck! With the print that I'm comparing to it's just the brightness that's off.

Ok. So I calibrated my screen with the lowest brightness and it still doesn't match my print. My screen seems so much brighter than the print. Am I doing something wrong?

Ok. I'll do it in a bit. I'm actually still working at my regular job.

I used the template on the ROES program (which I hate, by the way) and uploaded the photos that I specifically sharpened for the collage. So I just checked a recent 8x10 print against my monitor and the print is a tad darker. And so are a few others. So is it my monitor, or the lab?

Hi! This is the first time this has happened to me. I just got back a print of a collage of photos and they are dark and the colors do not match my calibrated monitor. The photos on my monitor are beautiful and the ones in the collage are terrible. What do I do here? Contact the lab, of course, but what do I say? I have been having issues with this lab, such as, missing photos in my orders and other minor things. They've corrected the problems when I've called. I've been thinking about switching labs and I guess my mind is made up now. I have more prints coming of this family and 5 canvases. I hope they come out nice. All of the prints and canvases I've ordered in the past were beautiful. I'm so bummed.

Perfect! Thank you soooo much for your help. I may play around with the text on the wall some more. Maybe with some blend modes.

Ok. How does this look? I have a hard time with that tool.

Hi Damien! I added text to the wall and I'm having a problem figuring out how to get the perspective right on the right side so it looks like it's smaller since the photo is not straight on. Do you know what I mean?

Ok. I'll fix that. Thanks!

Oh happy day! I am doing the happy dance right now! Thanks Damien! I'll post levels and skin back in the Premium section.

So I used a gradient for the wall and did some work on the floor. I left some of it unfinished because I'm going to crop when I'm done and it's just easier that way.

Damien, I would like to put a textured overlay on this. Do you have any tutorials for that?

Oh good! I'll work on the masking some more tomorrow. It's been a long day and my eyes are tired. Thanks for helping Damien! I'm sure I'll have more questions.

Ok. how's this?

So I'm at this point and have the gradients exactly as your's so why hasn't if filled in like it shows in the video?

Great! Taking a look now! Thank you!