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Colour Your World
By xaby | October 12, 2007
There’s nothing worse than printing your photos or designs and looking at a murky mess that bears no resemblance to what you had on screen. Once you’re done kicking yourself, your bean bag chair, and jumping up and down for a spell, you’ll want to take a look at some simple, but effective ways to avoid this unfortunate and frustrating situation.
With the myriad of monitors and printers on the market right now, it’s increasingly difficult to know for sure if what you see on screen will accurately translate to print. The good news is whether you’re on a Mac or a PC, most modern hardware can be calibrated to produce optimum, accurate colors.
There’s no substitute for using software and sensors that measure the color output on your monitor and printer to create a custom color profile that’ll save you oodles of time and money tweaking prints. Our fussy bunch of designers here at iStock HQ and our team of inspectors around the world use the Colorvision Spyder and they’re all kinds of impressed. It’s as simple as attaching the reader to your monitor, which sends the colors it sees in the monitor to the software. This is the nifty part, the software takes the difference between what it sees and what it should see and makes adjustments. Presto, your monitor is calibrated. It’s also a good idea to work in a reasonably well lit environment with a mix of natural and overheard light that doesn’t bounce of your monitor.
Now you’re looking at colors in their truest state and not some weird, muddy version of the magenta you thought you were going to print.
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