David duChemin is a world & humanitarian photographer, best-selling author, and international workshop leader. David uses his powers for good and not for evil. This is his blog.
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Ok, so I’m new, and this may be a stupid question, but do I have to calibrate if I don’t actually make prints myself?
Kate – Not a stupid question at all. Colour management is complicated and even the best of us find it a little confusing at times. The short answer is yes. If you want to be sure that the image on your display is accurately displaying your digital image – you should calibrate it.
Think of it like this – you wouldn’t do your image processing with green tinted sunglasses, right? How do you know your display isn’t leaning a little green? Or red? blue? How do you know the blacks are black and the whites are white? You don’t – unless you have a hardware-based calibration tool, and use it regularily.
I recommend you look into the Pantone products – they have a few – Huey, Huey Pro… or Gretag Macbeth’s Eye-One Display Two (this is what I use and I love it)
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