Need some Help

[cosmix3]

Hi, Hopping you good peps can help, I am trying to get my calibration right on my monitor compared to prints, have the I1 display 2, but dosnt seem to help with the brightness, every time I print, or have somthing printed it is a fair bit darker, have done a search on here and tryede some of the recomendations to get it sorted with no joy, I am trying to sort this as I want to get a Panoramic Print done by Togsprint, but at 43 inches want it to be right, is there any calibration that adjusts britness and contrast, or any tips I can try as I realy want this print to be right first time.

If it helps the monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster 2232 BW, I have tryed to manualy set the brightnes with the charts avalible on line, but they seem to say take the brightness down til the first two blacks are the same, then adjust til you notice the differance coming back in, but when I try these the blacks tont become the same at 0.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[LeeP]

Hi there

I tend to find a lot of people do have their monitors running at max brightness.

However, because of this, the images do come back darker. You're looking at an image which is backlit - where whites appear white and deep shadows / areas of small tones are clearly defined.

Without going through endless calibration prints etc - a tip I advise to all of my clients is to turn down your monitor (it'll take some getting used to!), edit your images to how you'd like them to look on print. When I (or any other lab) get this into the image editing suite (if it's used) or RIP the image itself should be overall lighter and work better with the media it's printed on.

By doing this, you tend to over work the midtones/shadows which can sometimes be lost in a print. For what it's worth, I personally run these through photoshop before anything is printed and adjust/call/edit as required to get them image right on the media the first time.

What some people may not know, is that the odd print will go through twice: once to get the image looking right and then the second time for final adjustments before going out to you, the customer

Hope the above is of some use to you!

Lee

 

[cosmix3]

Thanks for that lee, is of great help, may well get it across to you as is now and hope for the best, which from the reviews I have seen on here is what you do, will PM you now.

Thanks,
Stu.

Hi there

I tend to find a lot of people do have their monitors running at max brightness.

However, because of this, the images do come back darker. You're looking at an image which is backlit - where whites appear white and deep shadows / areas of small tones are clearly defined.

Without going through endless calibration prints etc - a tip I advise to all of my clients is to turn down your monitor (it'll take some getting used to!), edit your images to how you'd like them to look on print. When I (or any other lab) get this into the image editing suite (if it's used) or RIP the image itself should be overall lighter and work better with the media it's printed on.

By doing this, you tend to over work the midtones/shadows which can sometimes be lost in a print. For what it's worth, I personally run these through photoshop before anything is printed and adjust/call/edit as required to get them image right on the media the first time.

What some people may not know, is that the odd print will go through twice: once to get the image looking right and then the second time for final adjustments before going out to you, the customer

Hope the above is of some use to you!

Lee