Decisions decisions.. the spyder 3 pro is so much cheaper.. is there any way to upgrade it to a full print solution later if the fancy takes me?
you know, I think this is being made more complicated then it is!
you say you are colourblind, I happen to know a colour blind photographer! who does boudoir!
if you get a calibrator (Spyder express or pro) it gets your screen as acurate as your screen can manage, and that is that!
if you are sending your prints to a printing company, their printers will be calibrated as will their screens so they both match, so if your screen is calibrated what you see should be what you get from the printers.
if it is not then they obviously dont have a particularly good quality control!
right, with you being colour blind you obviously have no perception of certain colour ranges,, Red being one of them and ,,, ohhhhh what was the others
sadly nothing can actually help you much for this technology wise, but what the person I mentioned does is have her partner come in and check.
and between them she has developed a kind of coping strategy, doing it time and time again she has come to recognise what tones of, well grey as she put it, is the tone she should be looking for when she is working on her boudoir shots to get proper skin tone.
and she gets amazing results this way.
just a bit of food for thought!