Q. After uploading my pictures from my camera, I usually edit them and put some on Deviantart (a website where you can post artwork). BUT. I edit my photos on my laptop, which has an LCD screen. It looks fine on my screen, where I have the brightness set the way I like it, but I just recently discovered that my photographs look WAY different on regular computer monitors, so when people are viewing my photographs, they are not seeing them in the way I edited them to look the way I wanted.
Is there anything I can do with my laptop to fix this problem? Is there maybe a brightness setting on or for LCD screens that is like that of a regular monitor?
Is there anything I can do with my laptop to fix this problem? Is there maybe a brightness setting on or for LCD screens that is like that of a regular monitor?
A. You can get close by setting the gamma level of the screen and customizing the colour profile of the LCD (not sure how to do this in Windows... should be under displays). That said an LCD is never the best option for true colour, and a laptop (most of which don't have dedicated graphics cards) will be even worse. What I do is I bought a cheap used VGA CRT monitor that I plug in to give me accurate colour and light representation.
What's a good monitor for photo editing?
Q. I have an LCD monitor, but when I edit my photos on it I tend to over/under-do certain colors, because they don't show as well as they would on my laptop. On the laptop, my photos appear to be a lot sharper. I'm wondering if there's a such thing as a monitor that's used or made specifically for photo editing.
A. 1. They need to be calibrated...
I use a spyder three express (it is apart of their affordable range)
http://spyder.datacolor.com/product-mc-s3express.php
To learn more about colour calibration
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/CM_intro.html
2. Monitors can only display a limited range of colours.
Most monitors will be more than enough for most applications.
Many photographers prefer the consistency of apple monitors (because it is consistant compared to all the other brands on the market for windows.
Some of the best monitors include the
Dell UltraSharp (http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/landing/en/ultrasharpmonitor?c=us&l=en&cs=04)
and anything from
Eizo (http://www.eizo.com/global/)
I use a spyder three express (it is apart of their affordable range)
http://spyder.datacolor.com/product-mc-s3express.php
To learn more about colour calibration
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/CM_intro.html
2. Monitors can only display a limited range of colours.
Most monitors will be more than enough for most applications.
Many photographers prefer the consistency of apple monitors (because it is consistant compared to all the other brands on the market for windows.
Some of the best monitors include the
Dell UltraSharp (http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/landing/en/ultrasharpmonitor?c=us&l=en&cs=04)
and anything from
Eizo (http://www.eizo.com/global/)
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