Sometimes I create a post just to document and remember a learning process I’ve just gone through. This is such a time.
I just spent an hour or so recalibrating my laptop monitor. I calibrated it recently and it didn’t seem to come out right so I decided to recalibrate it again this morning.
Calibrating your monitor is a critical first step in the whole color management process (an area of study that hundreds of pages have been written on and that I won’t go into here – maybe later).
There are two settings you need to set in the calibration software – gamma and color temperature. I made some guesses as to what these were and guessed wrong. That’s why things like colors and tonalities didn’t look right. A little digging into Lightroom help provided the answer (when all else fails, read the documentation – yea, I know). So here it is. Hopefully it will save you some time in the future.
Gamma: 2.2
Color Temperature: 6500K
Good luck.
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