Lightroom in 60-Seconds: Getting The Brightness Of Your Prints to Match What You Saw On Screen
If you’ve ever made a print and it came out way darker than what you saw on screen, here’s a great Lightroom Classic tip on how to get the two to match so your print and your screen brightness is right on the money!
Hope you found that helpful.
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-Scott
I gave this a try and the images were certainly lighter as wanted. Only problem I had was that the images had significant banding across the image.
Also edit pix on a white background (or at least not black) to get a better idea of the colour. I have an EIZO monitor which comes with some software that links with Epson printers to give a better match between the two outputs. I am also surprised at how much difference varying paper types make to the final print
The reason why your prints are too dark is simply you have your monitor too bright. You want a luminance of about 100 to 150 cd2 and good calibration software/viewing conditions. Myth, you are not going to exactly match your print with what you see on your monitor but you will get pretty close. Its basic colourmanagement, cheers Andy
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Get on Facebook and look up Scott Kelby, its there with an image of a woma in goldish tone. No idea as to what link was about.
Nice tip and will give it a go. Something I do is use my light meter to measure my paper in the light it’ll be under and then use the meter on my monitor to set the same brightness.