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What you need to Know about
Your Monitor and
how it Displays Digital Photos
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Have you ever walked into an
electronics store and seen a dozen or so TV's all on the
same channel? How many of them display the on screen
images exactly the same? This is exactly how you need to
think about computer monitors and how they display digital
photos. Both the TV signal and digital photos have
embedded image data with precise profile definitions on
how to display the images but the display device, the TV
or monitor, present the image definitions according to the
device calibrations.
Your operating system will by default, assign a color
profile to your monitor. Generally speaking, this will be
some sort of RGB or sRGB profile. Most digital cameras
will capture in an sRGB profile by default. Today's newer
digital devices are pretty good with handing digital
color, although the colors a monitor displays can alter or
change over time. Keeping the capture color space or
profile of your camera the same as the color profile
assigned to your monitor will help with accurate color
display.
When you view a digital photo on your monitor the color is
usually not the real issue. The issues are with the
brightness and contrast the monitor displays. These
settings by default are almost always far brighter than
standardized color profiles established for professional
digital image editing and printing. In other words, how
you see the digital photo on your monitor is most likely
much lighter and brighter than it actually is according to
the standardized image definitions embedded in the photo
file data. Monitor brightness and contrast calibrations
are usually set bright to compensate for the ambient
lighting conditions of the average user.
The only way to properly calibrate and profile your
monitor is to use professional calibration software
systems. This will include software and a hardware device
that actually reads colors, grayscales, brightness and
contrast the monitor displays as the software application
runs, creating a color profile for you monitor. The second
part of enabling correct color management on your system
is to enable color management policies in the image
editing software used, and setting soft proofing policies.
With these systems set properly, the digital photo you see
on the monitor should be displayed accurately in regard to
color, brightness and contrast.
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