Jackie Matthews

perfect, thank you, I've written it down now :-)

Before I took any of the classes I would crop in ACR. I now realise that's not the thing to do. Damien did tell me in the RAW class when it was on fb how to undo the crop. I should have made a note as I can't remember how to do it

windows 10, 134 gb free and 8gb ram

:-) thanks for the info. the screenshot below is from a tower I have that I keep meaning to sell as I don't really use it that much. It was supposed to be fast when I bought it. how does the spec look for this? are there any day to day activities that I could be doing just as a general maintenance kind of thing? like using ccleaner for my pc to keep things moving along anyway?

Thanks Samantha

My RAW files are 5474 x 3648. I've recently been accepted to Shutterstock and I can't get my head round cropping and file sizes and when to do what - if I have an image which needs cropping to place items in the frame to look better, should I crop first and resize the image afterwards? I've been resizing to 3000px x 2000px (my choice of file size not theirs) for files that don't need cropping so I don't have a problem with that but for those that need cropping how would I go about that to maximise the pixel quantity please?

ok thanks for this. I haven't run the scanning tool yet but I'll get back to you when I do

Windows 10

Canon 70d, 8 GB RAM and 759GB free

Are there any steps I can take to make photoshop run faster? I use ccleaner to clean up my computer on a general basis I just wondered if there was anything I could do for photoshop as at times it runs more slowly than others. I have googled it but it's quite difficult to ascertain whether the info given is viable

Ok thanks

Thanks for that. I struggle when your icons look different or are in a different place but I've worked it out now. Just as an aside, when you place files, what types of files are acceptable or best to place? PSD's, jpegs? I am in your sharpening class and I've not ventured as far as canvas preparation as up until now I've not needed/wanted it. I'll have a read through there but thanks for the help with the storyboard anyway

I'm trying to follow the tutorial for creating intersecting shapes on a storyboard but I'm obviously doing something wrong. Your tutorial doesn't show the buttons that are available in CC so I think I've made an incorrect choice somewhere. I get a Swiss flag not what you show!!

It would be easier if they did! Thanks for the info though

Someone has just asked a question on a fb group I follow and I'm wondering why you would use the ctrl + b for a colour balance adjustment, ctrl + l for a levels adjustment etc etc. I was told that these are destructive adjustments. Is this correct? I'm not sure why you would want to do destructive editing but I just wondered what they were used for Thanks

Seems like it but I'm not overly concerned but thanks again

OK. My laptop is 15", my monitor is 19". By low resolution on the monitor I guess that it takes the resolution of the laptop and uses that until the monitor resolution has been set correctly. It's OK, I've sorted that. So as it stands at the moment when I use my laptop on it's own, all is good. When I plug the monitor into it to edit something the monitor is at the correct resolution and colour but the laptop shows an incorrect colour calibration. (monitor is 1, laptop is 2). I think that this is as good as I can get without purchasing another calibrator to get a dual profile so I think that your help has solved my problem as far as it can go at the moment thank you. I have just seen though that Firefox can only work on the primary screen (1?) correctly so I'll bear that in mind. Thanks for your input

I switched them round and I had a low resolution display on the monitor but it was the same colour as the laptop was showing. I'm using photoshop on the monitor and I can drag some of the options to the laptop

the monitor is number 1, the laptop is 2

No worries on the calibration. I may invest in another one at some point if you have a recommendation? Yesterday my laptop was totally blank and the monitor was working ok. Today however the laptop is on with the same desktop picture as the monitor but I only have icons on the monitor

I'd heard of this software but I don't really take images professionally so I didn't think it worth investing in more software but I'll bear it in mind so thanks

spyder 4 express and I cover the screens with a thick cover before calibrating to ensure no light leakage

OK, I've just had a chance to compare my prints to the monitor although would this be a fair test as the photos were edited on my laptop and I can't be sure that the screen was at the correct angle at the time? Would I be best to get some more prints done using the monitor to test it's accuracy or are the prints I already have of any use for checking this? I've got a batch of photos I want to get printed shortly but obviously if the calibration was wrong I'd need to check it first. In answer to your question, I extended the screen as you suggested and my laptop screen is blank, all the info is on the monitor which is fine, I don't need to see the laptop screen but when I unplug the monitor the laptop screen is very blue. If I correct that by recalibrating when I plug the monitor back in that is showing as very red. I don't need them to both be right at the same time as long as the monitor is correct