Next, calibrate your monitor to match the printer and paper you’re using.
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First, get a calibration device such as an X-Rite i1 Display Pro (£178) or a Datacolor’s Spyder5 Elite (also £178). There should be a way to get the screen image closer to the print, but it would be quite a lot of work, expensive, and you probably won’t like it. This is where colour gamuts, screen calibration, printer profiles and, yes, standard light sources can help. However, the more variables you can eliminate, the better your guesses should be. Today’s DSLR cameras produce images that are much like the colour slides we used to view on lightboxes, so happily this skill has transferred. I was obliged to do this in the days before personal computing, when I edited photography magazines. Nonetheless, photographers can learn from experience of how colours are going to be reproduced, as long as the process is consistent. Do you do the same thing when viewing prints? A print viewed under warm room lighting should not look the same as it does on a monitor set to the standard daylight colour temperature of 6500K, even though your brain will automatically try to compensate for the difference.
Prints don’t light up so they can’t have the same brightness or contrast range, and they’re printed using cyan, yellow, magenta and black inks ( CMYK).Ĭolours are also affected by the light under which you view things, which is why smart buyers take clothes and materials to shop doorways to see what the colours look like in daylight. Screens are bright and display colours using combinations of red, green and blue pixels (RGB). Sad to say, prints can never look like screen images. I want to get as true to what the print will be like (when printing via online printers). I’m looking for a monitor for serious photo editing. I read your answer about the best computer monitor for under £200.
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