Yeah, I hear you, AcadieLibre. I wish all the monitors in the world were the same! I still want to show my work, though, and I want to do the best possible, even if that's not that great by our fussy photographer's standards.

So I picked a monitor profile that seems to sit in between some other computers around here, and I processed a couple of photos. I'm going to take them around the university with me tomorrow (mac, pc and linux labs) and see how they look on various machines (all uncalibrated).

I sure had to adjust the white balance in Camera RAW up high to get rid of that blue cast in my uncalibrated monitor! 9500+ ...

This brings up another question. How do those little baby point-and-shoots produce acceptable(ish) colour right off the camera? Clearly most people don't post-process even a little bit. Do the cameras just boost the white balance so the images are nearer to looking good on the uncalibrated monitor?

Sorry if these are dumb questions -- I'm about 10 years late to the digital world ... I'm used to having a slide sitting in front of me, and I'm lost without that solid colour reference!