Why Your Monitor Is Lying to You About Color

If your edits look perfect on screen but fall apart in print or on a client's phone, your monitor's brightness and white point are almost certainly the culprits — not your technique. The real fix isn't a better preset; it's a colorimeter, a proper ICC profile, and knowing that backlight uniformity (test with a flat gray fill) will sabotage your vignette and exposure calls long before gamut width becomes a problem.