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In short, i take photos as a hobby and rarely print them (except for the camera club exhibitions). I have an old LCD monitor, which as long as it works i will be holding onto. I used to have a free tool which i used to get a basic colour profile and then tweaked the monitor colours, brightness etc to match a photo i had printed.
Recently i upgraded the PC (but not the monitor) and forgot to redo the calibration tool. So for the past couple of months i have been editing based on the over bright and cool default programme. This became apparent when i ordered some prints and they turned out way too dark and over saturated.
I took a couple of these prints yesterday evening and tweaked the monitor settings to match as closely as i could the monitor to the output prints.
I have read about getting a good monitor, using a specialist tool for calibration and matching to the printer profile which i would love to do, but on a £0 budget, does what i have done sound reasonable?
Recently i upgraded the PC (but not the monitor) and forgot to redo the calibration tool. So for the past couple of months i have been editing based on the over bright and cool default programme. This became apparent when i ordered some prints and they turned out way too dark and over saturated.
I took a couple of these prints yesterday evening and tweaked the monitor settings to match as closely as i could the monitor to the output prints.
I have read about getting a good monitor, using a specialist tool for calibration and matching to the printer profile which i would love to do, but on a £0 budget, does what i have done sound reasonable?