Color temperature of the room. Light falling on your monitor.

As part of a good color management strategy how big a problem or concern is it about the room temperature of lighting where you work - specifically, the light that falls on your monitor screen that you use to edit and view images.

For example, I used a sensor to check the light falling on my monitor. He indicated that this light was 3700K color temperature.

I use a LCD screen.

Should I try to change my room light somehow. My understanding is that the 5000K range is better?

Hi, Tom.

Images on a screen are a little different from that of the images to print.  What you see is reflected in the press, entering your eye, less what is absorbed by the pigments, inks, papers, etc..  If it does not exist in the light source, it can only exist on paper.  Light source definitely affect the colors reflected in your eye.  (of course, the eye adapts and color correct insofar as possible).

With the monitors, light (LCD, phosphores, etc.) IS the image.  In general, the temperature of your ambient lighting should have less effect on the displayed image, however, the level of ambient lighting can have a big effect.  In addition, it is a good idea to keep the excessive light armored so do you not monitor, which can reduce the contrast, flare, change the dynamic range, etc.  (3700K sounds like a taste of fluorescent, or a mixture of incandescent and fluorescent).

In an ideal world, your lighting in the room would never vary in color or brightness, temperature would be a perfect D50 and not too bright.  You would also have a perfectly neutral workspace, gray walls, wearing a black shirt, etc.  Then, you can maintain some consistency and use the same lighting to view your prints.  It is not always easy to achieve.  Instead, you can stick with normal room light (not too sharp) and then use standard lamps to view your prints.  That's what a lot of people do if they cannot achieve perfection.  Printing companies even do this and use a look at a stand for an assessment critical.  If your monitor is calibrated correctly, you have moderate ambient light levels, a hooded monitor if you have a standard D50 look at a light with the right intensity and reflection problems, you can get great matches of the print monitor.

So, I don't sweat the ambient temperature light.  I would try to get moderate ambient light levels.  Then I'd get a lamp Solux 4700 K look at one or a few Philips 5000 K fluorescent fixtures to view your prints.  Try to adjust the intensity of the light falling on a white sheet to be the same approximate brightness as a white document displayed in Photoshop.  They should be relatively close.  Personally, I like to calibrate my monitor 5200K, 2.2 gamma and 90cd/m2.  Works for me.

Lou

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