Cassandra and I have talked about this a little bit, how different monitors display our pictures and blogs differently, and that it's frustrating that a potential client's monitor may make your photography look horrible, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's hard to explain to people that haven't experienced it, so I'm going to try to show you a sample.
Here is the picture as I posted it earlier:
Here is the same picture after I upped the saturation on my MacBook until it looks very over-saturated:
I ordered prints from Rodney's birthday last weekend and when I picked them up at CVS, they were so muted and dull looking (sorry Cheryl!). Not colorful at all like they looked on my screen when I edited them. That is so frustrating! I know this probably looks like a very slight difference to most of you. But it was very obvious in the prints. Anyone know how I can fix this??? Unless I can find a fix, I'll have to edit pictures to the point that they look horrible on my screen, so they (hopefully) look normal on everyone else's, and in my prints. Arrrggghh!
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Okay, there's this thing called monitor callibration. I haven't used it because my prints through WHCC come back looking pretting much (although slightly darker) the same as on my computer screen. The callibration should help you for printing...but there's pretty much no way that you can help how the pictures appear on other people's screens. Mine look horrible on my work computer's screen also. They look dark and desaturated. Anyway, the monitor callibrators are kind of expensive...so I guess it depends on what it's worth to you.
If you don't want to pay, I would just do some tests. Bump the saturation up to different levels and print those test pictures. See which one comes out looking the most like you want and then bump it up to that level for everything you plan on printing!
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