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[Damien Symonds]

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Troubleshooting

If Brightness is the problem

If you find that your screen is brighter than your prints, then run the calibration process again, with a lower White Luminance target. For example, if you calibrated to 100 the first time, and you think it’s a little too bright, calibrate to 90 next time. Of course, if the difference is strong, then you’d choose 80 instead.

Conversely, if your screen is darker than your prints, then recalibrate to a higher luminance target.

Note: If you find that you need a target lower than 70, or higher than 110, I encourage you to make a frank assessment of the light in which you work, and decide if it’s truly suitable for imaging.

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What if colour is a problem? >>

[jessicaspollock]

My screen is still too bright compared to my prints after I calibrated as low as 60, what would you suggest? I started at 100 as suggested and went down to 80 then 60.

[Damien Symonds]

Just now, jessicaspollock said:

My screen is still too bright compared to my prints after I calibrated as low as 60, what would you suggest? I started at 100 as suggested and went down to 80 then 60.

Generally this suggests that the light in your room is too dim.

[jessicaspollock]

Thank you. I'll try again in better light.

[jessicaspollock]

My laptop does have some choices for contrast. Could this affect my result?

[Damien Symonds]

Ooh, it might.  May I see those choices?  Where do you access them?

[jessicaspollock]

I found them just by typing contrast into the windows search bar.

[Damien Symonds]

Yeah, definitely leave that off.

[jessicaspollock]

Okay good. I will keep it that way.

I also have HDR color turned off, would that be accurate?

[Damien Symonds]

Yep, that's right.

[jessicaspollock]

I'm starting to think for some reason the calibration profiles are not affecting my photos in Bridge. Is that possible? All the profiles look exactly the same to me. Even though I tried multiple levels of brightness. 

[Damien Symonds]

How are you comparing them?

[jessicaspollock]

I was leaving bridge open and switching my display settings to the different saved profiles and the picture would flash like it was changing but the brightness didn't appear to change at all between the different settings. 

[Damien Symonds]

No, that's right, brightness isn't embedded into profiles.  Brightness is tied to your manual adjustments.

[nabeela]

Hi Damien, I re-calibrated and these are my results but my screen still appears a lot brighter than my prints. These are my results below, please take a look and tell me where I'm going wrong?? 

[Damien Symonds]

Hi @nabeela, maybe the problem is your room light?  Maybe it's not bright enough?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/01/light-around-your-computer.html

[nabeela]

But the CCT achieved is still quite low compared to what it ideally should be right? Or do the graphs look okay to you? 

[Damien Symonds]

The CCT is for colour.  We'll deal with that later, but we must deal with the brightness first.

Please answer the question.

1 hour ago, Damien Symonds said:

Hi @nabeela, maybe the problem is your room light?  Maybe it's not bright enough?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/01/light-around-your-computer.html