As you can see, by default, my laptop screen is a tad too dark and has a horrible blue cast – this is something I had not noticed until I had calibrated it. Actually, it’s a composite of two photos – the upper right half is with no monitor profile, the lower left half is with the profile active. The image below is a photo of a section of my laptop screen (it is an actual photo, doing a screen grab won’t capture the effect the monitor has). You may be lucky in that your monitor is set up fairly well by default, but this can not be expected.
You can view the same image on the same computer, and just swap the monitor for another and that image will look different on each monitor you try (even monitors of the same brand and model may not be exactly the same).Īs a result, you can’t be 100% sure that your images’ colour balance, hue, contrast and brightness are set correctly. Many of us spend a small fortune on our camera equipment trying to get the best quality we can, yet so many of us miss out on an important step that can make a huge difference to our photos. A Guest Post by Andrew Mills from Andrew Mills Photography.
