Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/17

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Subject: [Leica] Tips for monitor color calibration
From: leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:02:37 -0600
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It's not simple and it's never 100% accurate, but:

Calibrate your monitor (s)
Profile you printer

Learn about camera, monitor and output profiles and colorspaces.

That's all there it to it!

Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157
www.leowesson.com


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Ryan Scott Bardsley
<rbardsley at gmail.com>wrote:

> All this talk about tones and hues around that picture of the washbasin has
> me thinking. What is the right way to make sure what you are looking at on
> the screen (assuming you are color correcting on a computer) is actually
> what will print out? I use Photoshop all the time, but more for graphic
> design and Web development. Not photography.
>
> I know this is one of the "can-o-worms" topics, but I would love to hear
> the LUGs take on the right way to go from an M8 etc. to a print. I have a
> Mac Pro and a bunch of Apple LCD monitors, none of which is color
> corrected.
>
> Tips?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
> Boston, MA
>
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