Plugged in or not plugged in....?

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Hey guys, I have a quick query, hopefully it can be answered.
I do my pp in Lightroom 4 on my toshiba laptop, now, when the laptop is plugged in the screen is brighter, and when the laptop is unplugged, you guessed it...... The screen is darker :)

My query is, do I pp my images to the screen plugged in or not plugged in ? I think when I've done some in the past, with the laptop plugged in (brighter screen), and then uploaded them to Flickr, Facebook etc etc, they seem darker but I'm not sure if that's just me..........

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Rich
 
Mardybum said:
Hey guys, I have a quick query, hopefully it can be answered.
I do my pp in Lightroom 4 on my toshiba laptop, now, when the laptop is plugged in the screen is brighter, and when the laptop is unplugged, you guessed it...... The screen is darker :)

My query is, do I pp my images to the screen plugged in or not plugged in ? I think when I've done some in the past, with the laptop plugged in (brighter screen), and then uploaded them to Flickr, Facebook etc etc, they seem darker but I'm not sure if that's just me..........

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Rich
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The first question to answer is whether you have calibrated your screen, if you have then you should edit under the environment that you have calibrated in. If you haven't, then I'd suggest calibrating your screen which will tell you if the brightness is too high (its likely to be higher than it should be). Also you should create some power management profiles in windows, so you can have the same screen settings for plugged in, plugged out (editing) and plugged out (power saver)
 
You'll (probably) be able to manually change the brightness using the Fn button and a function key (and power management settings in the control panel), so whether or not the laptop is plugged in or not is not important.

You just need to set the brightness of the screen to the correct brightness for your room conditions.
 
hsuffyan said:
The first question to answer is whether you have calibrated your screen, if you have then you should edit under the environment that you have calibrated in. If you haven't, then I'd suggest calibrating your screen which will tell you if the brightness is too high (its likely to be higher than it should be). Also you should create some power management profiles in windows, so you can have the same screen settings for plugged in, plugged out (editing) and plugged out (power saver)
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My screen isn't calibrated, didn't know it could be done so I will look into that, thanks.
 
Mardybum said:
I've managed to sort the power management plan, thanks. But I can't find any options to allow me to calibrate.... Hmmmm.
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ideally you should use a hardware calibrator.

but if its a laptop you probably wont get good results anyway (unless its an expensive model with IPS screen) as the viewing angles will alter the viewed image.

if you truly want to get your colours accurate an external IPS (with calibrator) would be ideal.
 
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