Oh tish and poo I am trying to calibrate my monitor. I should have done this an awful long time ago and well one thing lead to another and I didn't do it. Over the past few weeks I have become aware that my photographs have started to appear very dark. This is in part because they are dark - I seem to be going through a dark, super saturated phase at the moment which doesn't help. However, I noticed on other people's monitor that they were looking excessively dark so I decided to do the deed that I should have done months ago.
I installed the software, fine. I then went to install the calibration monitor and nothing. I downloaded new drivers but to no avail - it just wouldn't work with Vista. I had to calibrate the monitor manually, which is never an easy task, but I managed it anyway.
The results are impressive - guess what my photographs that were perfectly ok yesterday now look much darker than they should do. I guess the morale of the story is keep on top of your chores and get hardware that is future proof. This will no doubt bring a warm feeling to any Mac fanboys, you know who you are, who might be reading this - you don't have this sort of problem with Macs - old hardware still works with new machines.
Simon Marchini LRPS
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