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Colour transformations in workflow


steve kessel

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I'm pretty much a novice with digital workflow - haven't sussed how to calibrate my monitor, or even if that's possible, as it's a basic laptop with, as far as I can tell, only brightness adjustment.

 

So I take the picture, review it on the camera monitor - similar/different to the scene before my eyes, happy enough, download it onto the computer, similar/different to the monitor review and what I remember of the scene before my eyes and off I go twiddling with the Photoshop exposure and colour dials till it feels right. May print and/or post on forum. The end results are almost always different from the final view on computer. The scene before my eyes? Memory perhaps now totally replaced by artifact.

 

I'm usually quite happy with my prints, though they tend to be lighter than the computer version and web posts are muddier.

 

I'd be interested to read other thoughts on these transformations. And as a basic question, can one view a print and a back lit computer version and declare the one to be a precise version of the other?

 

Thanks

 

Steve

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