Calling For Help! Which Colour Profile Of My LCD Looks Best To You?

Do you realise LCD or monitor plays a very important role when editting your photos, for your blog or istockphoto? When I first learned to ‘PhotoShopping‘ or editting my photos with PS, I tried to adjust those basic settings viz. brightness, contrast and saturation to my photos (Even know, these are the most common settings that I did to my photos, nothing else). And I learned it real hard. I did these in my home as well as my office. I did these with my LCD as well as my CRT monitor. The more photos I tried, the more confusing and doubtful I found it to be. I found out when I editted to its best with my HP laptop, it might not turned out good in my office LCD, or looks overdone or under-done. Not only monitors, both my cameras’ LCD, D60 and FZ28, are also looks different, in terms of brightness, contrast and saturation.

Then I realised each computer and LCD has its own colour profile (the configuration of monitor to display colour viz. how much green is green or how white is white…). The green in 1 LCD might not looks as green in the other. Some red might looks ‘orange’ in the other LCD. This might also happened to my LCD’s only. Then I tried to display my photos in my sister-in-law’s LCD. Oh My God! It’s even worst! I got 1 more difference now! Each brand has its own colour profile and each model of 1 brand can also display slightly different colour though subtle.

I started to query this: Which colour profile do most of my readers have with their LCD? As this will affect the appearance of my photos in your LCD and my photos will look different in your LCD  than what is supposed to look in mine. I surfed through the net trying to figure out if there is any standard colour profile in this universe. ‘Yes. There is.’ You can even calibrate your LCD to this standard colour profile by using hardware called the ‘Spider’ which costs thousands of dollars! On top of its pricey cost, will this result looks good to most of the people who read this blog? I don’t know..

The best way to confirm this is to ask my readers, I think. So, please help me! These are 2 sets of of 4 photos that I took with D60, looked good in D60’s LCD, and I further enhanced its brightness, contrast and saturation with PS Element 6. First set is outdoor shot while the 2nd set is indoor shots. The first photo was editted with my LCD in office and the other was editted with LCD at my home.

Set A: Photo 1

Set A: Photo 2

Set B: Photo 3

Set B: Photo 4

Help me! Just comment to this post and tell me which photo of each set looks better in your LCD. Pick 1 for each set. I know you may find none of them looks good to you but what I need is to pick the better (In terms of colour rendering only). Please! I need your help before I could know which LCD should I stick to when editting my photos in future! Thanks in advance. – Travel Feeder.

P/s: Sorry. No fees would be given… only in goodwill to me. Thanks. 🙂

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Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.