You've just finished cropping and adjusting the color in a photo of your latest creation and are ready to submit it to an important show. Unfortunately, the juror may not see the same piece of artwork you're seeing on your computer screen.
That's the dirty little secret about jurying from digital images ... what you send and what the juror sees can be very different. The differences between computer manufacturers, as well as adjustments to brightness and color a user makes, affect how images are displayed. It all depends on how the computer is set up.
The differences are minimized if both you and the juror have each calibrated your computers. Calibrating (or profiling) requires an inexpensive piece of hardware and software (under $150) that adjusts the color displayed by the computer to an industry standard. If you edit your images and want to have confidence in the result, calibrating your monitor is a must.
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