Monitor calibration is a big issue, but I have tried to make it simple by having a selection of my photos printed in colour and monochrome by Photobox (who I use all the time, I do not print any photos at home) I then adjusted my monitor to match the colours of the printed images and the Photobox calibration card as closely as possible, so now whatever I see on my screen is how my prints will come out.

OK this is probably not the right way to do it, but it works for me. The only flaw I can see in my set up is that I do not know how others are seeing my photos although we have four computers running in our house and all of my images seem fine on each monitor here. I also use sRGB from camera all the way through to printing.

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