AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

You cannot account for someone else's equipment. If on theirs it looks too red, then you need to account for that. I supplied images to magazines for years. Sometimes they looked perfect. Sometimes not. If they looked perfect on my screen, then I made notes how to correct for their screen. (Funny thing was, they nearly always printed correctly!)

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Trust your print house's observations and recommendations. They are most likely experts in the printing field and know what their machines will produce and they have far more extensive ability to work with color than us mere mortals with our consumer-quality computers and monitors.

Fortunately, they were looking after your best interest and informed you of what they found. It was nice of them if they were able to correct it for you rather than just print whatever is sent their way.

jackpinoh Loc: Kettering, OH 45419

Magazine editors use calibrated monitors so that they know exactly what the image will look like when it is printed. If your monitor is not calibrated monthly, what the editor will see will be different from what you see on your monitor.

charlienow Loc: Hershey, PA

I didn’t think you calibrate a laptop screen. If you can how is it done. I too have an hp and would like to calibrate the screen

Thanks

Chuck

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I would imagine it's the same process as a desktop...
It's just another computer and monitor, nothing special.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Chuck you can certainly calibrate a laptop screen.

Not all screens are capable of displaying RGB but the colors that they can display can still be calibrated. Most laptops today can display sRGB colors.

Screens tend to slowly change colors over time. Regular calibration is "nudging the sliders" to keep the colors consistent. You should not notice a big change when you calibrate. However if you have never calibrated, or if you wait too long, or if something is broken, then you might notice a change after calibration.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Actually, I tried to calibrate a Mac laptop with my Xrite equipment, and it said "no calibratable monitor found". I wouldn't edit photos on a laptop anyway as it changes so much with different angles on the screen.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

My 10 year old laptop was very sensitive to the screen angle.
My new HP is much less sensitive to being a bit off of perpendicular to my eyes.
The same thing can happen with a desk monitor, but the viewing angle is more or less fixed after initial setup.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

I made a big mistake in ordering a "cheap" Chromebook a few years ago with TN display:

"...The biggest weakness of TN panels is the limited viewing angles, which go as low as 170/160 degrees."

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

Not only do you need to calibrate your monitor, the other person needs to have calibrated their monitor or all bets are off.

delder Loc: Maryland

We have a 90" TV/Monitor in the Classroom we use for our Photo Group. We critique member photos each month and the difference between what we see on the 90" and the moderator's iPad is amazing. Still an improvement from the LCD projector we had been using.
Still no calibration but at least we have a good reference to view on the iPad.

Sinewsworn Loc: Port Orchard, WA

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

Your second consideration is the big one. How on earth can people expect perfect color accuracy when there are a million variables, most of which are out of your control. How one see's colors is not only different from person to person, but each person views colors differently at different times depending on a vast variety of conditions. Super easy to warm up a picture, cool down a picture, adjust facial tones, etc etc with today editors, but when is the color "correct".

"Correct" in photography is up to the viewer at the moment the picture is viewed. Tomorrow, that same viewer might view that same picture differently. Calibrating your monitor might get some technical issues correct, but there are still a multitude of variables that affect how color is being viewed at any point in time. The guy making the decisions might (does) see colors differently and his equipment might (does) see colors differently, so that's always a rabbit that's hard to catch.

I view all my pictures on 5 different big screen HD TV's. All but one display about the same, and that one is old and needs replaced. I reckon if I lined up the 4 good TV's and grabbed a spectrometer there would be big differences in each screen, but I really don't care, they all look "good enough" to me.

To the OP if a guy judging your photo says it has a red tint, and you added a red tint, I'd suggest you remove the red you added to make the photo look good to your eyes on your equipment.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

If their monitor has a lousy setup, the image will probably look lousy, no matter what is sent to it.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

You need a decent monitor and a calibration kit from Calibrite or Datacolor.

Calibration linearizes gray output from black to white. ICC Profiling creates a color matching profile that helps your monitor produce standard colors as accurately as possible.

Without calibration and profiling, you don’t see what agencies, labs, printers, and publishers need to see.