If this question relates to the light falling on your display, the best answer is really \u201cNone\u201d or \u201cIt Doesn\u2019t Matter\u201d.\u00a0 What\u2019s important when calibrating your display is that the screen be the brightest light source in your viewing environment \u2013 you don\u2019t want it \u201ccompeting\u201d with the ambient light.\u00a0 Thus, the most fanatical color professionals work in a darkened room with a relatively low brightness display.\u00a0 Under these conditions, the color temperature of the ambient light doesn\u2019t matter much, because it is not really in the mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, many people don\u2019t prefer to work in a cave and therefore have natural or electric light in their work environment. Again, it\u2019s important that the display just be the brightest light source. So if you have a fair amount of light in your environment, TruHu encourages you to turn up the brightness to compensate for that. Thankfully, most modern LCD displays can get pretty bright and compensate for most viewing environments. However, if you have your display set to 100% brightness to compensate for your viewing environment, be aware that you are likely dramatically shortening the functional life of your display, maybe by 50%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are viewing prints and trying to match to a screen, then the type of light that you are viewing your prints under is very important.\u00a0 For most people, if you have access to a window in your work environment, that will be sufficient.\u00a0 Outdoor lighting has a color temperature of 6500K (see 6500K vs 5000K blog post)<\/a>.\u00a0 Depending upon your paper, you should be able to find a White Point in TruHu that will serve as a good match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to be a bit more buttoned down, you can purchase lamps with a known color temperature \u2013 5000K is the norm for print viewing in the U.S. \u00a0 But not all 5000K bulbs are created equal.\u00a0 On Amazon.com, a case of 25 48\u201d fluorescent bulbs rated for 5000K can be found for $86 ($3.44 per bulb, as of the time of writing).\u00a0 Meanwhile, a single 48\u201d 5000K bulb designed to be used in a graphic arts viewing booth will sell for about $50.\u00a0 What\u2019s the difference? \u2013 take a look at my Quality of White Light<\/a> blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does it really matter? Let’s put it this way: it all depends on your working environment and if your screen is the brightest element in that environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,23,24,20],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"aioseo_notices":[],"modified_by":"TruHu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truhu.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}