Oh tish and poo I am trying to calibrate my monitor.   I should have done this an awful long time ago and well one thing lead to another and I didn’t do it.   Over the past few weeks I have become aware that my photographs have started to appear very dark.  This is in part because they are dark – I seem to be going through a dark, super saturated phase at the moment which doesn’t help.  However, I noticed on other people’s monitor that they were looking excessively dark so I decided to do the deed that I should have done months ago.

I installed the software, fine.  I then went to install the calibration monitor and nothing.  I downloaded new drivers but to no avail – it just wouldn’t work with Vista.   I had to calibrate the monitor manually, which is never an easy task, but I managed it anyway.

The results are impressive – guess what my photographs that were perfectly ok yesterday now look much darker than they should do.  I guess the morale of the story is keep on top of your chores and get hardware that is future proof.  This will no doubt bring a warm feeling to any Mac fanboys, you know who you are, who might be reading this – you don’t have this sort of problem with Macs – old hardware still works with new machines.
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

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