Will The Colours That I See On Screen Be Accurate? Help with buying canvas art prints

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We cannot guarantee the colours will be identical. as individual monitor settings can vary. We do however provide sample swatches upon request. If there is a particular colour match you need please contact us for more info (you can provide us with paint codes, pantone or a colour swatches). For a quick check, try printing the image - this will show a more accurate representation of it's true colour. (although, if your printer is calibrated incorrectly, the image colour will not be true either)

We recommend that you do not set your monitor with the brightness and contrast too high, as this will alter your perception of the image. Quite often, a new flat screen monitor will be set up like this, (with both brightness and contrast turned up to 100%) when it is taken out of the box and will require a bit of tweaking. If you think the contrast is too high, (if the colours on the screen are very vibrant) try experimenting & turning it down. Likewise, if you do not get very good definition of grays and cannot see light grays, try turning the brightness down. For a quick guide, please click here to get help on setting up your monitor by altering the brightness. If you are in an environment that does not permit this (e.g. in a workplace) you could try & view the image on a different monitor. For more precise results and for more advanced users, if you would like to calibrate your monitor for Windows XP, we recommend the new Microsoft Color Control Panel which is a free download from Microsoft. If you are on a Mac, you can calibrate your monitor in System Preferences > Displays > Color > Calibrate.

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Monitor settings tutorial

Source: Keith Cooper, Northlight Images

Have a look at the test images below, they are designed to help you adjust your screen to display images more accurately*. You may find that your monitor looks somewhat odd after adjustment, especially if you needed to change it a lot. This effect is quite normal and you will soon get used to it. The controls on your monitor may be physical adjustment knobs, or a menu may appear on the screen (this is produced by the monitor itself, so the mouse won't work with that particular menu).

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Basic monitor calibration is not too difficult, but if you are not happy with changing settings on your machine, it is always best to ask someone who knows how to do it first. A well set up monitor should enhance your viewing of most sites. Incidentally, it is never a good move to adjust someone else's monitor without their permission.

Calibrating your monitor for viewing the photographs correctly

The strip shows a range of greys from pure black to pure white. You should be able to see a clear difference between each shade of grey, ranging from pure black (left) and pure white (right).

Along the top of the strips are alternate patches of black and dark grey. If it looks solid black to you (look very carefully), your monitor's brightness setting is too low. Increase it until you can -just- perceive the difference between the grey and the black squares.

If it resembles either of the two strips below, it is set too bright or too dark...