The following video is from Matt Kloskowski’s blog, LightroomKillertips.com, a place to get the coolest Adobe Lightroom tutorials, tips, time-saving shortcuts, photographic inspiration, and undocumented tricks. For more Lightroom videos, visit LRKT or subscribe to the podcast feed by clicking here.
From LRKT blog:
Basically, the idea was that our LCD screens (or at least mine) seem to cause my photos to look brighter on screen than they do when I print them. It’s not something that soft proofing would fix so I typically have some presets to adjust the Brightness slider. Another thing I do is create a test print. Well, this video will show you a way to create less test prints and also help identify what the sweet spot is for your prints when it comes to brightness.
If your screen is properly calibrated and profiled for proofing — using a colorimeter or spectrophotometer and associated software like basICColor — your screen when softproofing won’t be brighter than your print.
Thank you so much for your killertips on Brightness and a big shout to Light Stalking for hooking me up with Matt Kloskowski. Thanks again Mr. Kloskowski.