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My color grading was off for 2 years until a monitor calibration in Portland
I always thought my pieces looked fine on my screen, but clients kept saying the skin tones felt weird. Last month I took a work trip to Portland and borrowed a friend's calibrated Eizo display for a side-by-side. Holy cow, my shadows were crushed and everything had a green tint I never saw, it explained why my art looked dull after export. Has anyone else found a huge difference when checking their work on a second, properly set up monitor?
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reese1241mo ago
Same thing happened to me a couple years back, except it was a cheap TV I'd been using as a monitor. Bought a real monitor and everything looked way different. My greens were way too strong and my blacks were just a mess. It's not even about buying something fancy, it's just that the default settings on most screens are made to look good in a store, not for editing. Once I did a basic calibration, I had to go back and fix a whole bunch of old projects, it was a pain but worth it. The clients stopped complaining about the colors, so that was a win. Now I check my work on my phone and the monitor before I send anything out, just to be safe.
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