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[greatbear]

I have a question, directed at those on my list who are graphics professionals or photographers. Do you use a monitor color calibrator, or adjust by eye? If you use a calibrator, what kind do you use? While on my last trip, I had my laptop with me. When I offloaded my pictures to it, I thought I had ruined a large number of them playing with exposure settings. When I got home to my desktop system things looked much better. I still have yet to tweak this new display I got the other day, but it looks good on the old profile.

I am looking for something to help give consistency to the various systems and displays I use. I am also wondering how to best match the screen colors with my printed output. So, I figure I'd turn this into a 'Dear Lazywebs' post and see what you folks have for suggestions. You can even tell me to pound sand if you want.

TIA!

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[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

No, your post is quite helpful, thanks.

I have heard of the CMYK color space trick prior to printing does at least give one a better feel for consistency. Flickr does tend to make use of color space info and changes the look of photos posted there (not necessarily in a bad way, but enough to be confusing for me). I guess I am centered so much on consistency and repeatability, I want to control the process enough as to not get frustrated with it as I go along.