I work at a photo studio and I'm used to prints coming back that match the monitors. we use Apple iMacs and calibrate with a cheap Huey.
Doing more "freelance" stuff at home, I bought myself a NEC PA241w with the calibration sensor and SpectraViewII software. I'm on a PC with WIndows 7.
I ran the calibration as instructed. Shot some headshot portraits under studio lights. Sent off prints to my lab (no lab color correcting) Skin tones are much redder and
highlights are lighter and midtones seem darker then they look on the monitor. Disappointed. Gal at lab asked if my monitor was calibrated. Yes. Then I must now make
the monitor look like the prints I'm getting from the lab. I can send in free color test shots until I'm happy.
So..... I suppose I have to bring up the image and make it look like the print headshot. "Red and ugly", so that on future images I can correct them in photoshop until they look good.
Then they'll print as I see them. Right?
I'm guessing this is adjusted within the SpectraView software?
Can someone talk me through this? (Or do I have something set wrong in Photoshop?)
Thank you!