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Screen Calibration Kung-Fu: 3 steps to make your screen revealing every detail

var _TestId = 20; Want to see as much de­tail as pos­si­ble on your com­put­er screen when do­ing pho­to re­touch­ing? Use this lit­tle di­a­gram to add a YinYang-like bal­ance to your screen sett­ings. The goal is that you can dif­fer­en­ti­ate be­tween sub­tle nu­ances of black and white – just like the Pro’s can do. &nb­sp; Pre­press pro­fes­sio­n­als might work with hy­per ex­pen­sive spe­cial mon­i­tors. And they use pro­fes­sio­n­al me­ter­ing hard­ware in or­der to cal­i­brate their screens to a white bright­ness of ex­act­ly 175 lu­men/sqare me­ter, a gam­ma of 2.2 and a col­or tem­per­a­ture of 6500K – as an ex­am­ple. This is clear­ly use­ful for work­ing with pho­tos. How­ev­er, I made the ex­pe­ri­ence that I can ac­com­plish 95% of the screen qual­i­ty by sim­p­ly ad­just­ing what­ev­er screen I have at ha ›
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