Seeing different things on my computer.

[Meeskephoto]

So I just uploaded a fresh batch of photos to my computer and while shuffling through them I noticed that they all looked way over exposed and the color temperature was tungsten (blue), I was pissed because I purposely took those shots slightly under exposed and they all looked somewhat dark and warm on my camera's viewfinder, so I figured either my camera was screwing with my head or my computer was so I uploaded some pictures to my blog then looked at them on my phone and they where just like I had seen them on my camera. So my computer is displaying them weird.

How do I make it look proper on my computer? Is it just my screen or what? Does this happen to anyone else?

I have a Dell Inspiron, it's fairly new.

 

[SCraig]

It can happen to anyone that doesn't calibrate their monitor. You can find software methods on the internet. Here are a couple:
Monitor calibration and gamma
Display Calibration - Free online computer monitor calibration. Calibrate for brightness, contrast, color depth and resolution.

However the best way to calibrate a monitor, by far, is with a hardware calibration device such as a Spyder, iOne, or others.

If it's a laptop you can pretty much forget it though unless you get an external monitor. Laptop screens will never display exactly the same thing twice unless they are in exactly the same position under exactly the same light and angled exactly the same way.

 

[Meeskephoto]

Ahhh ok, yeah I'm on a laptop. The changes look pretty drastic though.

 

[SCraig]

Ahhh ok, yeah I'm on a laptop. The changes look pretty drastic though.

They frequently do. I have two monitors on my computer at work and have never bothered calibrating either of them. I can move my web browser from one monitor to the other and an image will look completely different between them, and neither of them look right. Laptops are even worse because everything about their display can be changed; the light falling on the screen, the angle it is viewed from, the actual settings of the monitor, everything.

You might try some of the online calibration routines I linked above, but for a laptop you really need an external hardware-calibrated monitor.

 

[Meeskephoto]

Ahhh ok, yeah I'm on a laptop. The changes look pretty drastic though.

They frequently do. I have two monitors on my computer at work and have never bothered calibrating either of them. I can move my web browser from one monitor to the other and an image will look completely different between them, and neither of them look right. Laptops are even worse because everything about their display can be changed; the light falling on the screen, the angle it is viewed from, the actual settings of the monitor, everything.

You might try some of the online calibration routines I linked above, but for a laptop you really need an external hardware-calibrated monitor.

Ok, thanks so much for the responses. I'll check out the calibration thing, it is a bothersome dilemma.

 

[snowbear113 45]

You can also upload one here and we'll let you know if we see the same thing.