Cody'sCaptures
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So I have an pretty old Toshiba machine, I think it's going on 6 years old. I put some new ram 16g ddr3 and a 120g SSD in it semi recently. It runs Photoshop and Lightroom okay, not great. The big problem is the monitor, it's complete junk. The monitor has a couple hot spots in it and just isn't very bright anymore. The laptop has never been properly calibrated (only color grommet images/software). The issue I'm running into is just basic editing is becoming impossible to get correctly (WB, saturation, RGB,curves...).
The computer barely leaves my house so I was considering a desktop but its still my personal computer so couch time is nice. I would go crazy and buy a nice new laptop but I just bought a house and all my money is getting dumped into renovations.
So the question is what's the best option, try to calibrate existing laptop, buy new laptop, build a desktop or just add a decent external monitor for edits?
Thanks for your time
The computer barely leaves my house so I was considering a desktop but its still my personal computer so couch time is nice. I would go crazy and buy a nice new laptop but I just bought a house and all my money is getting dumped into renovations.
So the question is what's the best option, try to calibrate existing laptop, buy new laptop, build a desktop or just add a decent external monitor for edits?
Thanks for your time