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January 13, 2009

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Monitor Profiling

This subject is featured in Issue #4 of The Luminous Landscape Video Journal.
Profiling & Calibration is a Must
Storm Over Mt. Hillers, Utah‚ April, 2001
One of the most frequent question that I'm asked is,Å“My prints don't look like what I see on my monitor. What should I do?
The answer, put simply, isprofile your monitor. Unless your monitor shows you accurate colours with proper brightness and contrast you can never hope to achieve simple and straightforward colour printing. This isnot optionalin my opinion.
Anyone who does photographic image processing on their desktopmustcalibrate and profile their system. Without doing so (unless you're very lucky and all the variables cancel each other out) you'll be sentenced to years of frustration trying to get your prints to look like your screen.
There are several things that affect what you see on your monitor's screen;

Your monitor‚ the set-up from the factory isn't necessarily what you want or...

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