Christine Nielsen wrote: >...If I may butt in with a related question... what about room >lighting? I'm trying to get my own system color-managed, but I've >seen conflicting answers... for calibrating the monitor, should my >room be illuminated "to a reasonable reading level", or "as dark as >possible as long as you can still operate the controls on your >monitor" (http://www.robertstech.com/blog/?p=64!) ..?
Many calibration/profiling systems allow you to compensate for ambient room light. It's a lot of extra work and I don't bother with it (hence the suggestion to perform calibration and profiling with minimal lighting room light can sneak in around the edges of your colorimeter and throw off its readings). >Then, once we're all calibrated & editing is underway, how should the >room be lit? The same way as for calibrating? I'm guessing that the >main goal would be consistency in the ambient light... and that it be >consistently daylight-balanced? What about daytime vs nighttime >editing...? The answer to that depends on that kind of output you're intending for an image. If you are preparing an image for the web you should just go with standard room/office lighting because that's how your viewers will be seeing things. When preparing for print making I prefer to go with very subdued lighting. For the truly fastidious, viewing of the prints themselves can be done in a dedicated Viewing Station: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2008/12/the-viewing-sta.html -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
