 Lauren Pritchard |
Pictures on monitor changed
Recently, I have had a few orders from seniors that I took almost a year ago. When I open their pictures, they are all really light. I have the same monitor and haven't changed anything. So why have my pictures changed without me doing anything. When I ordered their proofs a year ago they looked fine. So what happened? Any help would be appreciated. I really don't want to fix all these pictures again. I put a sample in to show how light it is.
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Oliver Anderson |
Monitors change over time, when you have a monitor calibrator you have to recalibrate every 2 weeks and you can see that there is a slight change each time you recalibrate. OR you saved the photos in JPEG format and I'm sure you know that is NOT a loss less format. If you've got the RAW file I'm sure you'll be fine...if you've still got the RAW files.
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Lauren Pritchard |
What is the best monitor calibrator? If I calibrate it will my pictures be the same as when I did them the first time?
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Oliver Anderson |
When I moved I had to leave my calibrator behind and didn't buy one for 4 months...stupid I found out. When I bought the Spyder3Pro ($150). I had to go back and redo the last months of photo since my monitor change and the color was off. Off enough that I wasn't pleased and the Agency's thought skintones were not perfect. After you calibrate you will have to go back and redo all you're past photos if they don't look right...but the future photos will be dead on and maybe the old photos weren't that off.
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Sarah G |
If anyone is still "logged in" to this Q&A could you PLEASE state (even with technical jargon) why you need to do this calibrating. I sent my husband the link to this Q&A in hopes of some understanding, but he doesn't. He thinks our LCD screen should not need to be calibrated, unlike the tube style that might need it. I am FAR from even coming close to being a pro, so how important is this for even the "likes of me?" Thanks!
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Well, what is it that's got him so perplexed? You calibrate so that when you take a picture and try to print it(or even send it someplace to be printed) what you saw on the screen does result in you saying "why did it print so dark, or so yellow?" And you also calibrate so that if you take a picture for somebody, when you give it to them and they look at it, it doesn't result in "Hey Sarah, the pictures you sent, they're too dark and too yellow. We can't use these." and Sarah replies "My husband is the digital editor, I just do the photography. He said they look fine."
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Marianne Fortin |
Try this test on your monitor: http://www.imaging-resource.com/ARTS/MONCAL/CALIBRATE.HTM
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Oliver Anderson |
why don't you both read the Spyder website. http://spyder.datacolor.com/index_us.php there are reviews and probably a faq section.
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