Color Monitor Camera
2010
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How do I get my pictures to look just as good on the computer as it does on the camera display?
On my camera, the colors are vibrant and full of color. The contrast and brightness also looks great.
Then I upload them to my computer.. and it's ugly! Well, not completely, but some of them lose a lot of vibrance. I tried adjusting it with photoshop, but I couldn't get the same colors! For example, a picture of a sunset, the bottom is reddish orange fading to a dark blue.. on the computer, it's orange to black blue.. through photoshop, the best I could do is pinkish orange to a nice blue.. I couldn't get that reddish orange color..
And as I upload more pics, I notice all the pic's colors look a lot better on the camera!
What is the factor that I don't understand? Is it the small size? Is it that my laptop's monitor sucks?
Which colors can I expect from a print? My camera's? Computer's? Neither?
The size is certainly a factor and it follows as well the resolution of the screen. A camera's display has a tiny fraction of the pixels of the images it takes. For instance, a 10MP image occupies 3648x2736 pixels; the camera's LCD, in comparison, is likely to be 320x240 or possibly 640x480 on higher-end models. In order to display the image it just captured, it needs to drastically downsize the image, compromising its level of detail and quality. The side-effect of this, as you notice, is an image that doesn't quite look the same on your computer as it did on the camera's LCD.
There's also the problem of color calibration; not every monitor or LCD screen is set to the same parameters; it varies between manufacturers as well as users themselves. Things like Brightness, Contrast, Color Temperature can often be set at the hardware level (the Menu button on a monitor). Other things can be changed at the software level (in Windows 7, Control Panel->Display->Calibrate Color, in addition to being able to change graphics-card specific Color Management settings) such as Hue, Saturation, and Gamma.
One option is to bring your memory card to a store which has instant photo kiosks, which allow you to preview your images before printing them. These are generally set up to display the image using the same color space as the photo printer will use, so it would give you a good idea of what to expect from a print, without committing to the actual printing process.
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