Jbasya

I set my monitor preset to 5700 and the spyder target to same. It’s not perfect but pretty close. My monitor now seems warm and dark but it matches the prints pretty well so.....

Hopefully my last question, and I may be confusing the two different versions of your instructions that I read....

Anyway, today I set my monitor to 5700 and the closest target the software offered was 5800.... if there’s an option not to adjust at all, should I choose that?

Many many thanks. 

This morning I put in new 5000k bulbs. My previous bulbs were way too yellow which might explain my cold editing   

I might get slightly brighter/warmer bulbs if I’m never going to open the windows again, but the room is plenty bright. 

I’m going to take the black and white out of the equation and give it one more tweak. I was trying too hard to warm things up to match it. Thanks!

Hi there! I got better results with a 5700 K temp, for whatever reason. I still had the same issues as before, just not as stark. Had to add both red and green and reduce brightness in the "spyder tune" area.

In the end the beach and barrel pics are giving me a hard time with green, and the black and white print looks much warmer than my jpg no matter what I do. But I'm definitely much closer than before. Might even be close enough.

Anyway, question: after setting my monitor to 5700 (it's next option after 6500), was I correct to tell the Spyder software that my target was 5800 (it's nearest option)? And why would my monitor need that setting if my printer says 6500?????

Thank you again.

P.S. I installed some 5000K lighbulbs today, turned them on and off as needed but kept the windows closed for consistency throughout this process.

Yes you offer advice (I can’t find it) or yes you think they’re worthless?

(I'm talking about the two color and  gamma and brightness sliders when comparing prints. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.)

P.S. the blues and greens are giving me much more trouble than the yellows/reds. And my black and white print is significantly warmer than the version on my screen. 

Hi Damien I'm going to retry calibration tomorrow when I can open the windows to compare the prints. I have the Spyder X Elite, so I read your instructions for both X Pro and 5 Elite, and I have a few questions:

1) my lab (WHCC) specifies 6500K, should I nevertheless consider a different monitor temp if it looks better prior to calibration?

2) should I allow the Spyder software to show me the RGB sliders or not? Your advice is different for the two products. 

3) screen brightness. You recommend between 70 and 100, but WHCC actually recommends 120, and my screen was too bright at 80 last time--how do I make sense of this?

4) Finally, I noticed you don't offer any advice regarding the "spyder tune" sliders at the end, are they not worth bothering with? 

Hopefully I can get it right tomorrow without additional tax on your time and patience. I'm attaching the pics I'm using, though I'm taking the sunset photo out of consideration as I realize the colors are too vivid.

Many thanks!!

pps Monday morning for me=early Tuesday morning for you 

I’m here! Busy weekend. If I don’t get to this tomorrow then Monday morning.

Thank you—I look forward to another three-week round of you trying to straighten me out ?

ps did I break the record for longest time in white balance purgatory?

1 hour ago, Brian said:

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thank you! I bought from them last time but it's been awhile, I'm glad to hear they're still respected....

1 hour ago, Damien Symonds said:

I hope you'll join the Layers & Masks Class soon.  It will resolve your fears.

That’s my plan!

8 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

If you can edit in ACR you must have a version of Photoshop.

I do! Version 19.0.1. But it's overwhelming I barely open it.

(that's the currently installed version, I pay the subscription and can update anytime)

I've been using lightroom but came here to learn photoshop! Lightroom has gotten too slow for me, and I've done everything I could find to get my computer to run it better. I prefer bridge to lightroom's library module anyway, and I'm starting to edit in ACR instead of lightroom, but haven't completely adjusted to it yet. Your raw class is next on my list

I have a PC desktop running windows 10 and Photoshop 19.0.1*. It is over 2 years old, and has 16GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 170GB free out of 940GB. The last time I shut down was last night. I run a cleanup program about once a week.

*I don't use photoshop (yet) but bridge wasn't in the dropdown, my current version of bridge is 8.1.

It could barely open files—I’ve seen many people online with similar complaints

it could barely open itself for that matter

Bridge 2020 was a bust, as others have experienced. But I was able to easily revert to 2018. Now I’m afraid if 2019 has issues I won’t be able to revert as easily. Is there a group consensus on whether 2019 has the same issues as 2020?

Who/what’s a good seller/brand to buy some memory for my XPS laptop? I know what I need (2 x 16gb ddr4 sodimm 2400 MHz) but Dell seems overpriced.

I’m in the US. Thanks!