Hard lesson in digital post processing

All the greatest imaging tricks in the world can't replace a well calibrated color accurate monitor!!! I received a NEC PA241W a week or two ago and now I have to go back and reprint nearly everything. That coincides with understanding Lightroom library which means major file reorganization! Good news is I finally got a 4T Raid 1 system that is nearly as fast as the internal hard drives and redundant backup at last!

Chock it up to a hard lesson learned!

Sometimes the hard lessons are best. It’s easier to remember them.

jetcode wrote in post #11725282
All the greatest imaging tricks in the world can't replace a well calibrated color accurate monitor!!! I received a NEC PA241W a week or two ago and now I have to go back and reprint nearly everything.

Nice monitor. Contemplated that one for a while.
But I fail to see how a change in monitor would force you to reprint images: The prints won't be any different.

René Damkot wrote in post #11726245
Nice monitor. Contemplated that one for a while.
But I fail to see how a change in monitor would force you to reprint images: The prints won't be any different.

I consider a web image a print as well as physical print on paper.

To your remark I thought the same and then I saw how skewed what I thought accurate color and balance was. I had a Gateway with 92% NTSC and blue back light bleed in the shadows not 98% Adobe RGB. The difference in being able to accurately see is worthwhile. The main difference is accurately judging the effects of white balance on an image. As I now surf POTN I see a lot of images that I would say were affected either by skill level and the lack of a high end reference monitor. For the later I was a part of that crowd.

jetcode wrote in post #11726372
I consider a web image a print as well as physical print on paper.

To your remark I thought the same and then I saw how skewed what I thought accurate color and balance was. I had a Gateway with 92% NTSC and blue back light bleed in the shadows not 98% Adobe RGB. The difference in being able to accurately see is worthwhile. The main difference is accurately judging the effects of white balance on an image. As I now surf POTN I see a lot of images that I would say were affected either by skill level and the lack of a high end reference monitor. For the later I was a part of that crowd.

Make sure you use a color managed browser and activate the color management for all images.