I’m a bit frustrated with this. I work with my laptop, but I have noticed that my image looks different when I use different devices to look at it. For example, in my laptop looks more grey and with less contrast but in my phone it’s saturated and with strong darks. And I don’t know who to believe!
I was looking around and apparently I have to calibrate my monitor using a screen caliper that is quite expensive and I don’t have…
This is really demotivating, I feel all what I do is going to look horrible if someone else look at it not in my laptop but in theirs.
I would like to know, how do you deal wih this problem? What screen you can trust the most? Thanks a lot for any help. Cheers!
In most case, smartphone screens are tuned to display warm, contrasted and saturated colors, because it provides a better rendering for pictures taken with smartphone camera…
And even if your laptop monitor is not properly calibrated, you don’t really have the choice: you have to use it to draw (except if you have a second monitor plugged on laptop)
Buying a probe can be a little bit expensive.
Here some possible solutions:
Rent a probe: not sure if you can find someone around you that can rent a probe
– For example in france, we have many website were you can search/ask to rent anything for one or few days
Search for an icc file matching to your laptop’s monitor
– It will depend of your laptop model (and eventually monitor reference), but you can sometime find calibration icc files defined for monitor (can take a look here: https://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/icc_profiles.htm)
– Please note that a predefined color calibration file is better than nothing but it doesn’t do magical things as monitor calibration need to be made updated in time (when monitor became older, color are not rendered as when monitor was bought…)
In all case, even with a properly calibrated monitor, you have to keep in mind:
On your smartphone, color won’t be the same
On all other screen that are not properly calibrated, color won’t be the same…
Grum is right, there’s not much you can do about it. Only thing you can do is make sure that your work display is calibrated at it’s best. Of course everyone else in the world probably doesn’t have a calibrated display.
Even when you had access to a calibration device some screens just can’t be calibrated properly no matter how you try because they are build too badly. For my laptop for example I can see with my bare eyes the imperfections caused by the technology used to build the screen, the lighting for example isn’t uniform and colors inconsistent depending on the position of the pixels. That’s why most of us artist on a semi professional level and beyond invest a lot of money in special monitors, they often already come precalibrated for specific use cases like digital painting, design or video editing. One of my monitors for my workstation already costs twice as much as my laptop allone.
Don’t know how it really looks on your side but if it can relieve you, for artwork you’ve posted for contest, color/shadows/lightness are correct on my calibrated screens.
I think you don’t have to worry about how it will be shown by jury
