My monitor has been calibrated such that what I see on the screen is pretty close to what comes out on a print. However, as monitor settings vary considerably, you may not be seeing what I’m seeing.
Be sure to calibrate your monitor’s brightness and contrast by using the scale near the bottom of this page. Otherwise images may appear too dark or too light. Adjust your brightness and contrast so that you can make out the difference between the first three and the last three squares on the greyscale. This usually involves cranking your contrast up nearly all the way and adjusting the brightness to about 2/3, but this can vary.
Color calibration is more complicated, and generally requires special devices, but these settings are less likely to be significantly off than your brightness and contrast. However, just keep in mind that what you are seeing isn’t necessarily how a print would look unless your monitor has bee calibrated using a hardware tool.
Nalin | 24-Apr-07 at 12:23 pm | Permalink
I just picked up a handy tool for monitor calibration, the Spyder2Express from Colorvision. It runs about $60.00 retail and is very easy to use. Color calibration tools can run into the hundreds and even thousands of dollars, but I don’t really need anything that fancy. This little guy gets the job done for an affordable price.