Why Your Prints Are Too Dark (and How to Fix It)
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If your prints keep coming out darker than they looked on screen, it's almost always down to screen brightness. In this video I go through why it happens, why the usual 80 to 120 candela recommendation may be the thing causing it, and the exact settings I use when I calibrate my own display for printing. I also cover the room your screen is sat in, which hardly ever gets talked about, and right at the end there's a way of checking all of this that costs you absolutely nothing.
00:00 Same file, two very different results
01:21 Intro
01:38 Why a print can never match a screen
02:34 The problem with 80 to 120 candela
03:09 The histogram is the only thing telling the truth
03:43 Why I settled on 60 candela
04:23 The kit and software I calibrate with
06:11 Presets, and why I don't use them
07:00 Luminance, white point, gamut, gamma and black point
09:04 Before you hit start
10:13 Reading the results and delta E
11:22 The room your screen is sat in
12:36 Project Photoshop
13:02 A free way to check without a calibrator
13:28 Letting your eyes adjust
13:52 Two calibrations on one display
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