Your Monitor Is Lying to You: How Calibration Fixes the Gap Between What You See and What Clients Get

Your Monitor Is Lying to You: How Calibration Fixes the Gap Between What You See and What Clients Get

I used to wonder why my lab prints looked like a different photographer had edited them. Slightly warm, a little flat, never quite what I had on screen. I blamed the lab. I asked them to adjust their profiles. I complained to other photographers. It took an embarrassingly long time before I accepted the obvious answer: the problem was my monitor. Once I fixed that, everything downstream got easier. Client approvals got faster.