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Trying to have prints match closely to a monitor?
Other users gave great answers about tuning your computer. However since you mentioned costco, this is a costco specific answer:
I've sent many prints to costco and had great luck. However not so ...
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Pseudo high-bit grayscale - does this idea already exist?
Yes, it exists and it is called pseudo-gray.
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Photoshop Image mode and bit depth
When you work in 16 bits mode, the pixel data have 16 bits/channel, thus 65536 shades per channel.
Your display has 8 or 10 bits/channel, thus 256 or 1024 shades per channel.
The way you convert ...
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Can a 65% RGB laptop display 100% RGB on an external monitor?
If you ask this because you want to do photo retouching work on the gaming laptop, the answer is yes.
The color space of sRGB or Adobe RGB is coded into the file. The rendering device (display, ...
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Trying to have prints match closely to a monitor?
Some high-end, made for visual-arts work monitors ship with pretty decent color profiling from the factory. But if you're looking for a cheaper option, you definitely need a color calibrator. There's ...
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Why are the color spaces we have access to incomplete?
Your basic assumption: "If all colors are combinations of red, green and blue" is just wrong. Rafael says it works on humans, but this is also wrong. Let me answer this: "What colors are we NOT seeing ...
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How to set up correct color profile in Windows?
The question is very broad and probably beyond the scope of an answer here. Entire books have been written regarding points 1-5 of your question. It seems that all of that is really just a long ...
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Pseudo high-bit grayscale - does this idea already exist?
You have already pointed out the exact reason this wouldn't be worth the effort of implementing.
The slight tint shouldn't be noticeable.
The minute differences in brightness wouldn't be ...
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Mirrorless Problem? How do you verify that the image you have just took is sharp when you are out shooting?
Regardless, what tips could you provide to verify that your photos will look perfect on your screen when you are out shooting?
You can't. There are several reasons why.
There's no such thing as a ...
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Trying to have prints match closely to a monitor?
To obtain consistent results, you should calibrate your output devices and use print services for which color-correction profiles are available. Dry Creek Photo provides ICC profiles for many Costco ...
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Lightroom Classic displaying on wrong "second monitor" overnight
Seems I found the solution faster than expected, here are the steps:
Virtually switched monitor [3] and [2] in Display Settings.
Switched Lightroom's preview window to "windowed" mode. That way it ...
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Trying to have prints match closely to a monitor?
For most images, you'll probably get better results with a mediocre, middle-of-the-road monitor that has been properly calibrated and profiled than with a high end monitor that has not been properly ...
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How to process DSLR RAW files for display on modern HDR-capable TVs & computer monitors? (actual 10bit/ch or 12bit/ch dynamic range)
Your first step is to find out what formats the TV can decode. JPEG2000 is one candidate TIFF is another, but the TIFF spec is a can of worms allowing creation of new tags with alternative decoding ...
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When calibrating a monitor, should I create different profiles with different light situations?
Do you mean that the calibrated result is different depending on whether you calibrate with the ambient light on and off? That is, if you create two profiles in these two conditions and then compare ...
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Is Nikon D3200 compatible with external monitor?
Is Nikon D3200 compatible with external monitor?
Not while recording using Nikon's, Adobe's, or any other applications that use Nikon's SDK.
Not even while using applications, such as digiCamControl,...
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Is there a Benefit Getting a Colour Managed Monitor when you work in 8-bit Colour?
While new technology does have "benefit", it doesn't necessarily outweigh the frustration that comes with trying to get it to work properly. At this time, unless you have a pressing need to upgrade ...
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What features should one look for in Monitors in 2020 for Photo Editing?
Things NOT to get:
TN panels of any kind. Their color rendition varies on viewing angle. IPS and its variations (including PLS and AH-IPS) is what you want.
Any monitor that isn't at least specified ...
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Is my monitor inhibiting my post processing?
Without a properly calibrated monitor with wide color-space coverage you are basically operating blindly, so for sure you need a better monitor but its not necessarily the resolution.
Start by looked ...
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Calibrated Monitor Messedup Results?
You may be right and it may be a display calibration issue, but my first reaction is that it looks like you are giving away images in AdobeRGB or ProPhotoRGB color space and they are viewed in non-...
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Why can't one calibrate a monitor with a DSLR & a color chart?
The color temperature of the light and the angle it hits the color charts change the way the raw will look.
Take one photo, then rotate the card 90 degrees and take another photo. Then rotate it 90 ...
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Should I create a monitor profile for each paper?
You should always use a correct monitor profile for your monitor. That us, you should use a profile that ensures that the colors sent to your graphics display adapter by applications are accurately ...
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When calibrating a monitor, should I create different profiles with different light situations?
You should create a single color profile for backlit or light-emitting monitors because ambient lighting typically does not change the colors that are displayed, but mainly alters your perception of ...
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Is there a Benefit Getting a Colour Managed Monitor when you work in 8-bit Colour?
Are there any benefits getting a monitor that supports colour management when I don't work in a colour managed environment?
You can do color management with a monitor that doesn't "support" color ...
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How to properly calibrate a monitor
The computer (with its GPU) is the primary control for everything.
It uses a package of settings (a profile) that influence the video signals that go from your programs to your screen.
On the way to ...
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Color appearance during editing and after export when using a wide-gamut monitor
Lightroom uses ProPhoto RGB, the monitor in Adobe RGB. Does this mean
that the colors I'm seeing through the monitor when editing is being
translated to Adobe RGB?
Yes. But not quite. Your ...
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Is there an better than Adobe RGB monitor?
Better Isn't Necessarily Bigger
First, it depends on what you mean by "better."
I can give you a rational argument that sRGB is better than AdobeRGB, despite sRGB being a "smaller" gamut:
sRGB is ...
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How can I compare a few screen's color gamut?
You can't, just from coverage percentage numbers, because you can't tell exactly where the overlap in three-dimensional colorspace will be from a single number representing area. See How do color ...
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How can I compare a few screen's color gamut?
It is not guaranteed, but almost all screens with 72% NTSC coverage also have around 99% sRGB coverage. Screens with 92% NTSC coverage tend to be right around 99-100% Adobe RGB coverage.
While it is ...
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Darkest screen brightness for photo work?
No.
The purpose of a viewing screen is to emulate the human vision system and make it easier for you to discern details. If you're going to go to print then you need a screen that can show you or ...
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Flicker Frequency for taking snapshot of monitor
Flickering was the unavoidable effect of the image display method in CRT displays and therefore it was always synchronized to the frame rate.
In today's LCD screens there is no connection between ...
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