Calibrating monitor (LCD laptop)

[Grumpy_one]

No wonder!! Look at what I've been seeing vs. real world (print). No wonder my photo's looked ok on this monitor and looked like cr*p on my crt monitors (home, work). I just thought the image was lousy on the crt's. Turns out my laptop lcd monitor was giving me false confidence.


The photo's next to the monitor are pretty close to real color.

[pathfinder]

Calibrated monitors are a real assett, as you experienced oh Grumpy One:thumb :D

Even better when your prints match your screen, and you can reliably soft proof them there before printing with confidence.:clap

Laptop LCDs are more usually difficult to reliably calibrate also. That is one of the reasons I strongly prefer to do my editing on my desktop Cinema Display at home, rather than in the field.

Even though I calibrate my laptop's screen, head position is very significant in how the image looks on my laptop; less so, on my Cinema Display with my Mac.

[Icebear]

I don't even bother calibrating my notebook screen. I shoot all my assigments teathered. I encourage my clients to look at good shots, but tell them "This is just RAW data. Do not look at color, exposure, straightness - nuttin but composition" I think of my notebook screen as a bigger version of the LCD on the back of the camera. One day you'll get old too, and understand what I'm talkin' about.:rutt

[jdryan3]

Calibrated monitors are a real assett, as you experienced oh Grumpy One:thumb :D

Even better when your prints match your screen, and you can reliably soft proof them there before printing with confidence.:clap

Most definitely. Besides monitor calibration, getting a good handle on using ICC profiles and PS/printer color management is very important. The yin to calibration's yang. Hint: turn off ANY printer settings that control how an image looks - vibrance, style, all that stuff. Let PS and your profile handle it :deal

Laptop LCDs are more usually difficult to reliably calibrate also. That is one of the reasons I strongly prefer to do my editing on my desktop Cinema Display at home, rather than in the field.

Even though I calibrate my laptop's screen, head position is very significant in how the image looks on my laptop; less so, on my Cinema Display with my Mac.

I also calibrate my laptops (previously a PC; now a MacBook Pro), but only so if I am doing output in the field and my 24" WFP is not available. Plus something is better than nothing. At home I use my MBP monitor for PS tools and pallettes, my image is on the 24". And on the Mac I changed the gamma for both video outputs when calibrating.

[Dave Clee]

The best investment I made was the spider setup, it wasnt exactly cheap but all of my prints have come out fine since then.

Cheers

Dave