Re: Monitor Calibration/Color Correction Questions

"Shannon Cayze" <cayze@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ede6066d-9d92-49ba-8643-19648f6123e7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello all,

Recently I began Photoshopping some vacation photos and got through
about 100 of them. Coincidentally, this past weekend, I decided to buy
a Huey (non-pro version) monitor calibration tool to get the most
accurate prints that I could (without going high-end, of course). I
could not believe the difference between what I had done and the
corrected version. I then verified the results by sending a couple to
a local print shop, and the results did indeed most closely match the
corrected versions.

This tells me that I've got a lot of work to do to get all the photos
I'ved edited so far looking the way that I thought they were going to
in the first place. Here are my questions:

1) What is the best way to make these corrections? I've been creating
Color Balance adjustment layers in Photoshop CS3 and adding contrast
as needed (because the corrected versions didn't just have color
casts, they also lacked contrast). This gives me decent results but I
thought I'd ask others who know more than I do if there is a better
way.

2) Do any calibration tools have a feature that lets you view the
corrected version and then automatically adjust it so that it looks
like what you thought it should in the uncorrected version. I doubt
the Huey has a feature like this, but do any of the high-end tools?
The Huey can show you the two versions so it doesn't seem as though it
would be too much to ask for an automatic adjustment tool that
accounts for the difference.

3) Obviously I'd want to send photos to print only when they've been
edited using a calibrated monitor. But what about when posting them to
sites such as Flickr? Since most people will view them on uncalibrated
monitors it seems (which I haven't tested) that you'd want to post
photos edited on uncalibrated monitors to get the most expected
output. Am I correct in my thinking?


I try to make my saturation adjustments in Camera Raw. Then for color balance contrast enhancement and removal there is no better tool than curves adjustment layers combined with proper selection. That technique is also the most frustrating and difficult of all the methods. One of the beauties of PS is that there are many different ways of dong things. No one technique is totally right or wrong. Pick a technique that you are comfortable with and learn it well. IMHO Kelby's book is a good primer. There are some excellent courses given for reasonable prices at Lynda.com.


HTH

--
Peter

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