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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: The View on May 08, 2008, 02:05:44 pm
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I know it is wrong to work with the maximum brightness setting on a monitor.
It would make your images too dark.
But I'd find it more agreeable if I could than on a dimmed monitor.
COULD ONE DO THIS?
1. Edit an image monitor set to bright.
2. Adjust for this making the image too dark by using the brightness slider.
WELL...
I have the impression it is not quite the same image.
Have you ever experimented with this?
Thanks!
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I'd just like to know: is there any way to avoid working on a muted display. After all, it's hard to see the colors well if the screen is turned to minimum brightness.
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I'd just like to know: is there any way to avoid working on a muted display. After all, it's hard to see the colors well if the screen is turned to minimum brightness.
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Many office-type LCD displays can't be dialed down to a proper brightness level for critical photo processing work and still display properly. If that's the case you just have to do the best you can, and making an after-processing-but-before-printing brightness adjustment may be it.
Nill
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I'd just like to know: is there any way to avoid working on a muted display. After all, it's hard to see the colors well if the screen is turned to minimum brightness.
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A couple of thoughts:
Are you calibrating and profiling the monitor?
- If not then it doesn't really matter.
What is the intended use of your images?
- web postings? may not matter
- printing on your own printer? It will definitely make a difference.
- sending your images off to a lab? They'll probably auto-correct anyway.
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How bright is the ambient light? My monitor is typically at full brightness until I do image work, then I turn it down to where I set it when I profiled it.
At first it looks pretty bad, so I normally surf the web, do some emails, grab a snack ... anything until my eyes adjust. As long as the room I'm in is pretty dark, it's amazing how my eye adapts and things look just fine.
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A couple of thoughts:
Are you calibrating and profiling the monitor?
- If not then it doesn't really matter.
What is the intended use of your images?
- web postings? may not matter
- printing on your own printer? It will definitely make a difference.
- sending your images off to a lab? They'll probably auto-correct anyway.
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Thank you! You really targeted my points of concern.
I calibrate using an Eye One Display 2.
My photos are presented in three ways:
1. To the client coming in - I need brightness here.
2. On the web. I found out, that even when adjusted on a too bright monitor, most people's monitors are even brighter. As you said, doesn't matter.
3. I print using professional production houses. I'm sure they do their own correction (too warm, for example). I don' t know if it helps to give them an absolutely correct file.
So, does this mean I have to work on different monitor settings? One for client representation/watching images on the screen, and the web...
... and a second, dimmed down to 120cd/m2 for print preparation?
Other than many people, I like a bright screen.
(If this is plainly wrong, I may have to change my personal preferences).
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How bright is the ambient light?
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That's another point. I do a lot of editing at night, but at least 25% during the day.
Looks like I need two profiles?
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That's another point. I do a lot of editing at night, but at least 25% during the day.
Looks like I need two profiles?
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I have light-blocking shades on my windows, and they are close to 100% effective. That way, the light is pretty constant whether I edit during the day or night. I could use wide gaffer's tape to seal the edges of the shades to the edges of the window frame but haven't found it necessary.
I use one profile on an old Diamond Pro 2060u CRT monitor, which I reprofile every 2 weeks.
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I came to the result that too bright a monitor is very bad, as it gives you the illusion of higher contrast - and then you get a flat image.