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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!

Comments

[budmassey.livejournal.com]

The second picture is vastly superior. Are you using the correct white balance?

[danlmarmot.livejournal.com]

On the camera? No, I'm not using any white balance on the camera as these are raw images.

The big difference is that the good one was processed with Nikon's Capture NX software, and the bad one was processed in Adobe Lightroom. Both iwere color corrected and look the same... but Capture exports a pretty JPEG (against a sRGB color space), while Lightroom exports that pinkish sRGB JPEG.

Something odd is going on.

[budmassey.livejournal.com]

You know, I would have guessed the second picture was a Nikon balance. Nikon always shifts slightly blue. They have a set of filters you can install on Photoshop that really work beautifully, but the color balance was always on the cool side. I don't have the filters installed anymore, but I do like the way they work.