Color Management (Again)
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There have been some recent extensive posts regarding color management. When I view images on my computer, they look fine (it’s a calibrated iMac). The same images burned to a CD also look fine on the same monitor. Images forwarded in email and viewed on another monitor look dark or terrible. The same CD on our other computer looks awful too. Any thoughts?
Here’s a scanned image that I posted elsewhere in this forum last week. I’ve since tweaked it a little bit in Lightroom. How does it look on your monitors? Thanks!
All you can really do is go by the numbers. Hold your whites to 245R-245G-245B and neutral gray to about 110 or 118 RGB and textured black around 30-40 RGB. Monitors vary so much and settings on any given machine can be whacked. You might try a white balance target like the WhiBal etc to get your images dialed in to neutral.
Mr. King is dead on — “Monitors vary so much and settings on any given machine can be whacked”. It doesn’t matter what you do if ALL the monitors aren’t calibrated, you are only as strong as your weakest link. I have actually gone in and calibrated monitors for clients in the past. I am also thinking there’s a way to export color settings as a sidecar file for your image … but if a monitor is off – it’s off.
shannon
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