Garbz
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It depends to what extent you intend to match prints. Lets face it most of us get an IPS screen, calibrate it and be done with it. But comparing an image which is lit by a light to an image that is self luminescent (like a monitor) is very difficult. To do this you typically need a setup like this: http://www.e-fotografija.com/artman/uploads/monitor2.jpg It's the setup for the pedantic. You won't notice any difference in the print unless you look at the print right next to the screen.
Why does the room brightness affect your monitor? Have you ever worn yellow sunglasses? What happens when you take the sunglasses off? You see the world in shades of blue until your eyes adjust. That's the key part. Your eyes should adjust to the monitor and NOT to the ambient light in the room. To do this the room must be reasonably dark. If your eyes adjust to the room then you may introduce a colour cast in your photos as you correct their white balance not realising your monitor won't ever show a neutral grey because your eyes think it's more orange / blue than it really is.
What I suggest for your purposes, get a popular colour calibration tool. If you're going to use a lab then a basic one that calibrates monitors is all you need. Go through and calibrate the monitor leaving all settings at default (except maybe white balance which you should adjust to taste, or if your monitor is really bright compared to the room consider setting this at "monitor default"), this process generates a profile for your monitor. Then go to the website of your printing lab of choice and find an area to download their colour profile. Then softproof that colour profile. This means that your display will show your image under the constraints of what the printer is capable of printing. There's a heap of guides to be found for this step: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=soft+proofing+photoshop+filetype:pdf
Why does the room brightness affect your monitor? Have you ever worn yellow sunglasses? What happens when you take the sunglasses off? You see the world in shades of blue until your eyes adjust. That's the key part. Your eyes should adjust to the monitor and NOT to the ambient light in the room. To do this the room must be reasonably dark. If your eyes adjust to the room then you may introduce a colour cast in your photos as you correct their white balance not realising your monitor won't ever show a neutral grey because your eyes think it's more orange / blue than it really is.
What I suggest for your purposes, get a popular colour calibration tool. If you're going to use a lab then a basic one that calibrates monitors is all you need. Go through and calibrate the monitor leaving all settings at default (except maybe white balance which you should adjust to taste, or if your monitor is really bright compared to the room consider setting this at "monitor default"), this process generates a profile for your monitor. Then go to the website of your printing lab of choice and find an area to download their colour profile. Then softproof that colour profile. This means that your display will show your image under the constraints of what the printer is capable of printing. There's a heap of guides to be found for this step: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=soft+proofing+photoshop+filetype:pdf
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