Monitor calibration
Discussion
Using Lightroom and Photoshop i can my images looking exactly the way i want to.
However, when i print them at home they look quite different, darker with less vibrant colours.
I realise in part this may be due to printer ink etc, but i have played with big blocks of loud and soft colour and they print ok - again just a little different to my monitor.
Not sure if it helps but pics published to the Web look fine on my monitor.
I am therefore guessing that it is a monitor calibration problem.
My issue is that i want to order a book from Blurb, and don't want to be dissapointed when the pics don't come out as they appear on the screen.
Are there any decent software only calibration tools? The Samsung one that came with my monitor is quite frankly pants. I read about Adobe Gamma, but that wasn't packaged with CS3 and i have read that this is CRT only anyway, not TFT.
Or do i have to go hardware based - Pantone Huey Pro seems to be a relatively cheap option, but i have read mixed reviews, and the bad ones tend to be 1 star types.
Any advice would be greatly received. Thanks in advance
However, when i print them at home they look quite different, darker with less vibrant colours.
I realise in part this may be due to printer ink etc, but i have played with big blocks of loud and soft colour and they print ok - again just a little different to my monitor.
Not sure if it helps but pics published to the Web look fine on my monitor.
I am therefore guessing that it is a monitor calibration problem.
My issue is that i want to order a book from Blurb, and don't want to be dissapointed when the pics don't come out as they appear on the screen.
Are there any decent software only calibration tools? The Samsung one that came with my monitor is quite frankly pants. I read about Adobe Gamma, but that wasn't packaged with CS3 and i have read that this is CRT only anyway, not TFT.
Or do i have to go hardware based - Pantone Huey Pro seems to be a relatively cheap option, but i have read mixed reviews, and the bad ones tend to be 1 star types.
Any advice would be greatly received. Thanks in advance
Probably not the advice you wanted, but I just ordered 65 books from Blub, but ordered one first to check (which they recommend). It also meant that if 64 turned up looking crap, I had one to show as a 'control'. They all looked fine and the economy post took only 2 days from Switzerland.
They are now doing Permium paper and I even have a 'pro service' (though they don't mention it on the webite). This would give you a shed load more control over what turned up.
BTW - I've used Gamma on a TFT and certainly for contrast it worked fine. Can't for the life of me remember if I used it for colour.
They are now doing Permium paper and I even have a 'pro service' (though they don't mention it on the webite). This would give you a shed load more control over what turned up.
BTW - I've used Gamma on a TFT and certainly for contrast it worked fine. Can't for the life of me remember if I used it for colour.
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