March 2008
Beginner
230 pages
7h 45m
English
Content preview from The Digital Photography Companion
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FRESH APPROACH TO PRINTING
CALIBRATE YOUR MONITOR
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Calibrate Your Monitor
Once you’ve found your best shots, it’s time to edit them for printing, right? Well, not
quite. If you spend a few moments adjusting your monitor before you fiddle with your
pictures, you’ll be that much closer to ensuring that what you see on your screen will
look like what comes out of the printer.
Calibrating your monitor means that you want it to display colors and tones so that
they match a set of standard settings such as gamma and color temperature. By working
with standard settings for color, you’ll have more confidence that the edits you make to
your photos will be reflected accurately when you output them. Keep in mind that an
accurate monitor is only part of the equation. Your output device needs to accurately
interpret the information you send to it. But good color management begins with a
calibrated monitor.
Color management
accuracy
Mac OS X Windows XP, Vista
Fair Stock monitor profile in
Displays Preference pane
Stock monitor profile in
Display Properties
Better Built-in monitor calibrator in
Displays Preference pane
ird-party software tool
such as Adobe Gamma
Best Hardware colorimeter Hardware colorimeter
Monitor calibration options
If you’re already using a screen calibration device, such as Pantone’s huey ($89; http://
www.pantone.com) or X-Rite’s eye-one Lt ($169; http://www.xrite.com), you’re
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