Hi.. I would like to know more about monitor calibration and how does it work, why is it so improtant to get WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) when you are photoshopp-ing :bsmilie: Thanks in advance!
It's important so that...
- When you print a photo at home, what comes out is what you have on screen
- When you print a photo at a lab, you don't get a rude shock
- When you publish you photos on the net, you don't get people asking you why your colors are off
- When you view your photos on another computer, you don't faint
As to how you go about it, there are two ways...
The manual way, using a printout from a calibrating sheet to adjust the brightness, hue and saturation of your screen or
The automatic way, using a monitor (and, for more accuracy, a printer) calibrator.
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It's important so that...
- When you print a photo at home, what comes out is what you have on screen
- When you print a photo at a lab, you don't get a rude shock
- When you publish you photos on the net, you don't get people asking you why your colors are off
- When you view your photos on another computer, you don't faint
erm, IMO, monitor calibration will not help in any of the above
1. what you print may not match your monitor unless you calibrate your printer with the paper you are going to use. It is time consuming and tedious and the tool + software alone will cost you 1 to 10K.
2. again, even if you have calibrated your monitor, it may not match the prints from lab, you will probably need to compensate accordingly thru trail and error, in order to get the color u want. In the end, what you see on the monitor still may not match the print.
3. most pple (esp for non-photographer) will not bother to calibrate their screen, so if their monitor calibration is off or use different color temperature, what they see will be totally different.
4. again, unless you calibrate every monitor that you use, the color will not match. Somemore the graphic card and monitor should be the same, in order to get the same effect. No way you can calibrate an old 14" CRT + onboard VGA and expect the color to match with an Apple/Eizo screen + matrox VGA card.
Correction, MLCC and Kim Tian both have ready profiles for their printer/paper combo, so did Beautiful Memories in the past.MLCC and other labs, even commercial press do not provide profile to end user. some don't even have profile to start with.
Correction, MLCC and Kim Tian both have ready profiles for their printer/paper combo, so did Beautiful Memories in the past.
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/icc/Profiles/Singapore_profiles.htm#SingaporeCity