burkphoto wrote:
Your computer came with a generic display profile. If you use an external display, it did as well. At the very least, enable them.
HOWEVER, it does not end there!
For photography, TURN OFF Night Shift. TURN OFF Automatically adjust brightness. TURN OFF True Tone. All of these will fool you when adjusting color images.
Ideally, you would use a color calibration and profiling kit to make a custom ICC profile for YOUR specific monitor(s). These are made by Datacolor and X-Rite. In choosing settings for evaluating photographic images for printing, you would use custom aim points similar to these:
Gamma 2.2
Initial color temperature 5800K to 6500K depending on calibrator recommendations
White Point 105 candelas per square meter (cd/m^2)
Black Point 0.5 cd/m^2
If your prints from adjusted images come out too dark, REDUCE the monitor brightness (white point). If your prints are too light, INCREASE the monitor brightness. While you'll never perfectly match a monitor to a printer or lab, you can get very close.
Ideally, you would choose a neutral gray for each of your monitors as the operating system's desktop color (not a photo!) This helps "center" your vision's color response. Similarly, you would work in a gray room with gray tables, sit in a gray chair, and wear a gray smock or apron while adjusting color.
We did all these things in the color correction department of the photo lab where I ran Color Corrections (and other digital imaging departments) back in the early 2000s. We rarely had to reprint, since our printers were custom profiled, and our monitors were custom profiled and matched to each other.
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I have seen the statement that too bright a monitor will result in too dark a print at least 1000 times. I see you recommend 105cd/m2. I am currently using 100. So if you can explain the display brightness effect that causes the print to be too dark or too light. I would expect the brightness/luminance curve of the display will map to the brightness/luminance curve of the paper if calibrated correctly.