The first thing you need to do is this: Calibrate your monitor In this article I’m going to give you some of the most common reasons why this happens and what you can do to fix it. Secondly – don’t worry, you can put it right. Ok first things first – you are not alone! Your photos turned out too dark, or the colours are just wrong, or they are waaay too contrasty (shadows are black and highlights are blown). So we rush in, pay our fees, get the package in hand and we barely make it outside the shop until we’re hacking the package open to take a first look at our glorious new prints… Only to see… Then for the next few days we anxiously sit waiting until the call comes in to say that our works of art are finally ready to be picked up… For all the benefits of digital photography, one big downside is that it makes us lazy and for some reason we are always putting off printing our favourite images that we have spent so long working on creating.īut then at some point something is triggered inside and we get off our butts and send some files in to be printed – at last!
