I recently had to replace my old monitor. After letting it warm up for 30 min. all I could get out of it was a brightness of 60 something when I needed somewhere around 120 to calibrate it. Its replacement, an Asus 27” incher , was everything I wanted except when it came to editing images.
I do most of my work in ACR, only moving my images into PS when needed. With my old monitor images looked pretty consistent when moved from ACR to PS, and most of the time outside PS. Few if any adjustments were needed. With my new Monitor(calibrated) this no longer true. Right now I’m noticing when I try to slightly smooth out someone’s skin. I get the image just like I want in ACR, but as soon I open it in PS, or worse outside it, that “silky smooth” skin now looks like sandpaper. It’s like pushing the clarity slider to the extreme right. For example, if my clarity setting is at -20 for an image in ACR. If I want to keep the look of the image in PS consistent with what I see ACR I might need to push the clarity slider to -30, or may be even -40. I never had this problem with my old monitor. I used to be able to process a couple of dozen images in a couple of hours. Now I do about a max of 3 images before I feel burnt out.
In the past the images I processed, in general, it looked good on other people’s monitors. This no longer the case. Images that look good on my machine look overexposed on other people’s computers. The only exceptions I’ve come across are two calibrated macs that are used by co-workers in their dealings with printers and publishers. Hell, I’d even say my pictures look better on those machines than they do on mine.
So what’s going on here? Do I need to “man-up” and learn to work with a “real” calibrated monitor? My real concern here is the inconsistency of the images that are moved/exported out of ACR.
Thanks for letting me rant
Robert
I do most of my work in ACR, only moving my images into PS when needed. With my old monitor images looked pretty consistent when moved from ACR to PS, and most of the time outside PS. Few if any adjustments were needed. With my new Monitor(calibrated) this no longer true. Right now I’m noticing when I try to slightly smooth out someone’s skin. I get the image just like I want in ACR, but as soon I open it in PS, or worse outside it, that “silky smooth” skin now looks like sandpaper. It’s like pushing the clarity slider to the extreme right. For example, if my clarity setting is at -20 for an image in ACR. If I want to keep the look of the image in PS consistent with what I see ACR I might need to push the clarity slider to -30, or may be even -40. I never had this problem with my old monitor. I used to be able to process a couple of dozen images in a couple of hours. Now I do about a max of 3 images before I feel burnt out.
In the past the images I processed, in general, it looked good on other people’s monitors. This no longer the case. Images that look good on my machine look overexposed on other people’s computers. The only exceptions I’ve come across are two calibrated macs that are used by co-workers in their dealings with printers and publishers. Hell, I’d even say my pictures look better on those machines than they do on mine.
So what’s going on here? Do I need to “man-up” and learn to work with a “real” calibrated monitor? My real concern here is the inconsistency of the images that are moved/exported out of ACR.
Thanks for letting me rant
Robert
