Gear Reviews
Do You Really Need a Color-Calibrated Monitor for Retouching? Yes — Here's Why
Do You Really Need a Color-Calibrated Monitor for Retouching? Yes — Here’s Why I’m going to be honest with you: when I first started retouching portraits, I thought color calibration was something only “real” professionals needed to worry about. I worked on my laptop screen for nearly two years, wondering why my skin tones looked so different when clients received their edited images. The answer, I eventually learned, was staring me right in the face—literally.