Jaimie.taylor10 Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 Hi Damien! I am trying to calibrate a laptop (I know, I know... but it's all I have an all I can afford right now)... it's a MacBook Air from I think maybe 2012? anyway, I am trying to calibrate and when I compare my test prints to my screen, the screen is MUCH pinker than my prints. I would assume it's a problem with my laptop, but my iMac desktop (that is now so old I don't use it anymore) had this exact same problem. For example, I can edit, but when I post to social media and look at it from my phone or when I make prints through ProDPI, my skin tones consistently look darker and greyer than they did on my computer. Here's an example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Hi Jaimie, which calibrator do you have? 1 hour ago, Jaimie.taylor10 said: It's vitally important to ONLY compare your images in Photoshop, or another Adobe program. You can't trust viewers like Preview to be properly colour-managed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimie.taylor10 Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 Hey! Thanks for responding! Unfortunately it looks just as bad comparing in PS. I have the x-rite colormonkey display Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 And these are the instructions you're following? Including the troubleshooting section? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimie.taylor10 Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 Yep! I followed them exactly. I ended up thinking maybe my monitor display was too warm and made a profile of 90_d65 and that didn't help. It actually didn't seem to really make any difference... i guess I could try the ambient light checkbox this time? It's just that nothing I change makes a noticeable difference... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 You mentioned "when I post to social media it looks darker and greyer". May I have a link to one of those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimie.taylor10 Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 https://www.dropbox.com/s/oatle12eqenzx2j/IMG_2761-Edit.jpg?dl=0 let me know if that link works. I don't have any to show posted to FB or anything because it makes them look so bad and grey. If I want to post, I have to make them almost RED on my computer for them to look kind of normal skin color (not greenish grey) when I post anywhere. I will take a picture of what this same photo looks like on my computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Ok, can you do this for me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimie.taylor10 Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 Hey again! So I went back to take a picture of my screen to show you the difference between that and the dropbox link I sent you... but there wasn't really a difference anymore... then I looked at my other photos I've edited and they looked much more grey and dull (like they keep looking when I print them or view them from my phone)! So... sadly but thankfully, I think somehow the calibration did work but maybe it just didn't change immediately or something? But it seems to have worked now. Then again, it's 10:30pm here right now, so I'm viewing my screen in the complete dark... if it didn't fix the problem when I look in the morning, I will be back here to keep asking questions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Hooray!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimie.taylor10 Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 Hooray and not hooray! Now my stuff looks like crap! LOL. I'm worried I may have gone TOO far... it's almost like the monitor is looking TOO dull compared to my prints which are now looking a little more magenta than the monitor! (This is such a pain!) is there like a setting in between Native and D65? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Let's talk again after you've compared the prints in good light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimie.taylor10 Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 Sounds good! Thanks for all the help tonight! Talk to you when it's brighter out! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimie.taylor10 Posted April 8, 2017 Author Share Posted April 8, 2017 Hey Damien! So after all of that, the photos now are more red/magenta and warmer in person than on my monitor. My iPhone matches my prints almost exactly, but my computer is now almost too dull... Any ideas? If I have to just live with it, that's ok. I can adjust my expectations... but if I can get them to match, that would be amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 You know that your iPhone is completely irrelevant, right? Any match is entirely a fluke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimie.taylor10 Posted April 8, 2017 Author Share Posted April 8, 2017 yeah... i know that. i just thought it was interesting that it matches the prints exactly, but my computer doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Ok, remind me of the change you made to your calibration, that caused this change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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