Calibrate Monitors or Not?

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You will not regret your decision, Phil and Karen. Please carry out the steps to confirm the level of brightness even if you have to have a sample image printed by a friend in case you do not do any printing. The sample images should not be adjusted, just printed and compared to the screen image under proper lighting.

Hi Cemal,

The analogy we used is that it’s like we’ve only just bought a tuner for our expensive guitars and thought - ‘ahhh… so that’s what an A actually sounds like’.

We will definitely aim to complete the entire process (we need to tune the other 5 strings!). Slow, but steady, from here. The calibration device turned up quite late, so we only had time for a quick look - and we have a bunch of ‘life stuff’ to sort out over the next few days - but we have access to printers and there will be plenty of re-editing and reviewing in the days ahead.

Hopefully the benefits will become apparent as the new edits start to get posted. I may post a comparison before/ after too.

Once again, thank you for giving us the (gentle) guidance and push we needed.

P&K