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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
08-27-2017, 07:34 AM
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Online photos are a poor way to judge the quality of any monitor. Flickr annoyed lots back a while ago with issues about the quality of their photos re compression, but I don't know the current state of affairs. A much better way to judge is just view what you know to be a high quality image, preferably not in JPEG, at 1:1. And probably in something besides a browser. A pixel shifted Pentax image, for example. And of course it depends on your viewing distance; if you are like 40" away it won't matter at all.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
07-22-2017, 09:03 AM
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Pre-calibration as you quoted it means something, in that it describes the inherent color gamut of the monitor. I googled it for you: How Color Gamuts for LCD Monitors Can Make a Huge Difference
The calibration I wrote of, as did others, is accomplished with a hardware colorimeter that you place on the monitor to calibrate the colors, since remember a monitor has to make say a pea green out of little dots. Like this: How to Calibrate Your Monitor
Furthermore, you can also calibrate printing results. But many just try to get true colors by using a proper WB (using say a card) and then using a color calibrated monitor to achieve consistent results. Wider gamut monitors give you more colors, essentially, and since printers are often more capable of more visible colors than the wider gamut is especially important to them. Each printer, like a monitor, has a profile and you can download these. Like say for all the Costco Photo Center printers. ColorWiki - Printer to Match my Screen |
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
07-21-2017, 12:32 PM
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I'd say you'd want a 2.5k monitor, a 27" 2560x1440, which is the old pre retina iMac screen, basically.
You'll pay a ton for such a monitor with a wider than RGB gamut. But to get accurate color even within say the sRGB gamut on both screens you'll need to buy a colorimeter and calibration software, like the xRite or something. Doing it by eye is less than meh. Then you can use color profiles for the printer you're going to use to soft proof in say Lr to get reasonably accurate prints (the printer may show more colors than your displays). You could also get a device to calibrate the prints, but I dunno if that would be worth it to you.
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