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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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Why are the color spaces we have access to incomplete?
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If all colors are combinations of red, green and blue, and my monitor's pixels use all three, why is its color space limited to so small a portion of the actual complete color space? ...
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Why are the color spaces we have access to incomplete?
why is its color space limited to so small a portion of the actual complete color space?
Because the "red", "green" and "blue" which your monitor uses are pale, probably not noticeable but still pale....
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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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What are the lines on a screen looked through the camera with varying ISO's?
You are seeing the scanning of the screen. Try shooting an airplane propeller next! The exposure is made with a travelling slit so different parts of the image are exposed at different times and the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Why are the color spaces we have access to incomplete?
Color space has 2 words... Color and space.
Color
If all colors are combinations of red, green, and blue...
Incorrect. That is a simplification that works on humans. Our eyes have receptors that use ...
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What are the lines on a screen looked through the camera with varying ISO's?
This type of monitor uses a cathode ray picture tube. This is a design taken from analog TV technology. The image on the screen is glowing pixels of red, green and blue phosphorus. In the neck of the ...
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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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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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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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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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Should I return my new wide-gamut monitor or buy an expensive calibrator?
1) Is it worth sucking it up and shelling out the dough for a calibrator, especially if don't print? Do these calibrators usually fix all issues like colors running hot and will my monitor be perfect ...
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How to best take a picture of a screen, like a computer monitor, with a phone camera?
On the iPhone, taking the picture in HDR mode gives you a composite of three photos taken and low, medium and hi range. As a result you are likely to catch all of the pixels at least once.
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Can an amateur significantly improve colour on a factory-calibrated monitor (like the Dell U2414H)?
Calibration with a hardware calibration tool (I use an X-Rite Colormunki) will improve display accuracy. Factory calibration may get the best out of the display using its internal controls, e.g. ...
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Tethered Shooting and Monitor - Nikon 3DX
Ok - I found a simple answer - I just need to press the Play button to reactivate the monitor.
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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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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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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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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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How to choose the secondary monitor in Lightroom/Windows
This has long been a problem in LR, and unfortunately it looks like Adobe has no interest in fixing it, as it has persisted from LR4 thru to LR CC. You may find one of the tips listed in this long ...
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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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