If you are ever having trouble controlling colour or tone, if you are having problems with white balance, whether in your camera, monitor or from your printer. Introduce a known quantity into the equation. Although this very useful Kodak card is no longer available there are other colour swatches and or gray cards.
I add this card to one of my pictures for any given photo setting and then when it comes to processing the raw files I simply sample the white balance from the gray scale. I can also use the lightest white and the darkest black to set my exposure and black point and even print it out to compare the final print result with the original. This is even more useful for digital photography than it was when I first started using it with film. A simple trick like this could save you hours of frustration.
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