Monitor and processing
Discussion
Lately I have been driven mad with processing images and the different characteristics from different screens and the angle of my laptop. I'm no pro and pretty poor with editing, I just have in my head what I want an image to look like and just get it how I like it. I come back to it or pick my laptop up differently and hate it. Brightness seems massively affected by viewing angle and I can never seem to get it just so, or I suppose more to the point in a position that tends to agree with other screens. I'm thinking I should get a standalone screen for editing to stop this as a fixed position at the very least would give me a fair baseline to work from.
Sounds like a good idea for me. My work laptop has a very nice screen and is fine for editing when out on jobs (Dell XPS L421X).
However, my personal laptop (Asus something...) whilst being very powerful doesn't have such a good screen. It's fine for browsing and general stuff, but when editing photos I'm not 100% confident. So I've got a Samsung external monitor for that.
However, my personal laptop (Asus something...) whilst being very powerful doesn't have such a good screen. It's fine for browsing and general stuff, but when editing photos I'm not 100% confident. So I've got a Samsung external monitor for that.
That's great, you can balance your screen for brightness, colour and contrast (see Spyder Pro) and then when someone with a £200 laptop with blue tinging looks at your photos they'll think they're too red or too green
The easiest/cheapest way to do editing on a laptop is knock out a lot of blue so you have a fairly warm'ish screen colour, take your screen brightness and contrast down to around 50% and start from there
Different screens present colour spaces in different ways, for example I shoot in RGB, edit in ProPhoto and then export into sRGB, basically throwing away 1/3 of the stuff, but there's no other way to display a jpeg on a browser other than sRGB and having it looking saturated and not dead.
The easiest/cheapest way to do editing on a laptop is knock out a lot of blue so you have a fairly warm'ish screen colour, take your screen brightness and contrast down to around 50% and start from there
Different screens present colour spaces in different ways, for example I shoot in RGB, edit in ProPhoto and then export into sRGB, basically throwing away 1/3 of the stuff, but there's no other way to display a jpeg on a browser other than sRGB and having it looking saturated and not dead.
Speaking to a few people it seems laptop screens have come along a lot. I would assume the dell is a lot better than mine! Mine is different colors at different inclinations and moving your head side to side. My work screen is awesome by comparison I can twist that any which way and get the same colours. What Samsung monitor did you go for?I have been looking at the Asus PA248Q.
Its a good point I can put images on different devices and all have them look different which is annoying. I guess I'd see the benchmark of what is true as how would it print. It's caught me out before when I have come to print and bits are not as I would like. I have thought about the spyder but I thought that would be more useful when I had a single device accurate and it would keep it that way?
Its a good point I can put images on different devices and all have them look different which is annoying. I guess I'd see the benchmark of what is true as how would it print. It's caught me out before when I have come to print and bits are not as I would like. I have thought about the spyder but I thought that would be more useful when I had a single device accurate and it would keep it that way?
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