Monitor/Print Brightness Problem

dangie · 2012-11-25T23:23:39+0000

Hello Had a print made at well known High Street Photo Printers. On comparing it to the image on my monitor I was happy with the colours but the print was quite a bit darker than the monitor image. I used Lightrrom to edit and exported it as a jpeg for printing. I have never 'properly' calibrated my monitors. As I am happy with the colour, is it worth investing in a monitor calibration tool, or just keep on adjusting the monitors brightness until it matches the print and go from there. I have Googled the problem and it appears very common. It seems most monitors default factory settings are far too bright. Also, as a monitor is backlit, and a print is frontlit, it may not be possible to visually match them anyway. So is a calibration tool the way to go? Thank you.

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Posted 17/12/2012 - 23:37 Link

A poor man's way of calibrating your monitor is using respective calibration images.

I'd recommend using a hardware calibrator (make sure you get a spectrophotometer if you have a wide-gamut display), but manually adjusting the monitor with the above calibration images will deal with the most important tone issues.