Image Matching

October 17, 2013 ·

Alain Briot

Image Matching

By: Alain Briot

Alain Briot is one of the most successful landscape photographers working in the American Southwest today. His work is widely exhibited and collected. His new monthly column for this web site, of which this is part, is calledBriot's View. An extensive interview with Alain is included in Issue #1 ofThe Luminous Landscape Video Journal.

Matching a Transparency to its Monitor Version and to a Print

Calibrating your monitoris the first step in insuring that the image on your screen matches your print of this image as well as your original transparency. But how do you achieve this? Here are the three basic steps:

You calibrate your monitor as described inthis article.

After scanning your transparency you color-correct the digital file in Photoshop so it matches your transparency or your impression of the original scene.

You print the digital file and compare this print to your transparencyandto its digital version on your monitor.

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Alain Briot creates fine art photographs, teaches workshops and offers DVD tutorials on composition, raw conversion, optimization, printing and marketing. Alain is the author of Mastering Landscape Photography, Mastering Photographic Composition and Marketing Fine Art Photography. All 3 books are available from Alain’s website as well as from most bookstores. You can find more information about Alain's work, writings and tutorials as well as subscribe to Alain’s Free Monthly Newsletter on his website. You will receive over 40 essays in PDF format, including chapters from Alain’s books, when you subscribe.

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