AshleyC
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Ok what can people suggest.
For info, my monitor is an LG W2261VP, ive calibrated it using a Colourvision Spyder2 Express and my video card is an AMD Radeon 6990 with the latest drivers.
With everything set up ive sent my prints off to both PhotoBox and DS Colour Labs using their suggested formats, colour profiles, paper profiles etc and they still come back looking wrong.
Last print i just did was with Photobox, a 20" print of a black and white landscape (its in the landscapes thread somewhere) I thought black and white couldnt go wrong, surely! But it did, several exposures darker than what im seeing on screen, all the detail totally lost in dark lumps.
That was £15 down the pan and frankly i dont know what to do now. I tried manually adjusting my monitor to make the image look like what was printed out, that worked for that image alone, all others just look terrible now.
I reset the monitor back to its default settings as advised before calibrating and to be honest, it looked overly bright then which would reflect in much darker prints, so could the spyder be wrong and i need a new one? should i be setting my monitor to a different default before running the spyder? If factory defaults arent the right starting point then what would be, it would be impossible to tell.
For info, my monitor is an LG W2261VP, ive calibrated it using a Colourvision Spyder2 Express and my video card is an AMD Radeon 6990 with the latest drivers.
With everything set up ive sent my prints off to both PhotoBox and DS Colour Labs using their suggested formats, colour profiles, paper profiles etc and they still come back looking wrong.
Last print i just did was with Photobox, a 20" print of a black and white landscape (its in the landscapes thread somewhere) I thought black and white couldnt go wrong, surely! But it did, several exposures darker than what im seeing on screen, all the detail totally lost in dark lumps.
That was £15 down the pan and frankly i dont know what to do now. I tried manually adjusting my monitor to make the image look like what was printed out, that worked for that image alone, all others just look terrible now.
I reset the monitor back to its default settings as advised before calibrating and to be honest, it looked overly bright then which would reflect in much darker prints, so could the spyder be wrong and i need a new one? should i be setting my monitor to a different default before running the spyder? If factory defaults arent the right starting point then what would be, it would be impossible to tell.
