Colour help please!

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I always notice that when I post images they appear darker on all other computers than my sony vaio! I cant afford to get a spyder or such like, but wondered if I turned down the brightness it would make any difference to when I was post processing them. Help would be much appreciated!
 
The simple answer is yes. But make a note of how you set the brightness so it's repeatable

Also check that dropping the brightness doesn't affect the colour of the image.

However looking at the images from your gallery on my calibrated MacBook Pro they look fine
 
The only way to be sure that your images are the correct colour is to calibrate your screen with a hardware calibration device regularly.
 
You have two thing to consider here...

The computer (and screen) that people will be looking with - and the browser that's being used.

If you are posting images online for photographers & graphic designers using a calibrated screen can be an advantage - as the odds of your client looking with one is quite good.

If the images being posted are for general public, the odds are their screens will look exactly like they were as they came out of the box.

In that situation you have to just guess. Assume the computer has a LCD screen which will be too bright and too cold (by photographers standards) which means if you've uploaded an image that has been colour corrected on a profiled monitor it will be light and blue.

If you look at a file on a profiled monitor that has been adjusted on a screen that has not been calibrated, the image will be too dark and yellow.

As vitually no browsers are profile aware (Safari is the only one as far as I know) you would be best to only upload sRGB files.
 
Yup, sRGB for web every time, but you need to make sure that the colours on your screen are correct before worrying about other peoples screens ;)
 
but you need to make sure that the colours on your screen are correct before worrying about other peoples screens
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If you are sending your work to a lab - very much so ;-)

If you work only is viewed by Joe public on their computers it's best to balance your images on an unprofiled screen so it looks good for them.

We keep a computer with a screen like that here for that very reason.... but all others are profiled (even the accounts machine) as once done they are so much better to look at - causing less headaches and migranes etc....
 
How do you know your unprofiled screens are the same as everyone elses unprofiled screen though?
 
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