DHolman opened this issue on Jan 30, 2004 ยท 11 posts
DHolman posted Sat, 31 January 2004 at 9:04 AM
The output for the web is a secondary consideration, but it would be nice if people actually saw my images the way I intended them to see them ... it's a dream I have. Having a correctly calibrated and profiled monitor is the first step in having control over your output. The next step is having a correctly profiled printing device. If your workflow is calibrated, then there is no need at all for tweaking. No experimentation. You just hit print and out it comes. So, for instance, if everyone here had a correctly profiled monitor, we would all see images pretty much the same (all makes of monitors have slight variations in their colorspace size, but it's probably not something we can detect by eye). I know, that's not going to happen. So why bother? I not only print my own photos, I also send them away to be printed (there are several places I send digital images where they output them onto photo paper). If I have a calibrated display and I know that the companies I use have calibrated output devices, then what I see before I send them the file is what I will get back from them. No surprises. No wasted money. -=>Donald