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Question: For those of you who use a laptop and do your photo editing on it!.
How can you tell how accurate your color is going to be on your edited photo!? I asked a question earlier about after unplugging a laptop how the color fades on it, but even when it is plugged in it seems a little bright!. So my question is!.!.!.How can you tell what the actual coloring is going to be on your photo when the screen is obviously not the correct color on a laptop!? Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I use Eye-One Pro to calibrate my notebook computers screen once a month !.!.!. my desktop's CRT once a week!.


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The best way!? Use a monitor (either LCD or CRT, CRT is cheaper) thats made for photo editing and displays a very accurate color range!.

Or just guess, for the most part!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

experience helps alot, after working w/ your laptop for awhile you should begin to understand how a picture will look when printed after looking at it on the screenWww@QuestionHome@Com