Most monitors show images lighter than they are printed. It's usually because our eyes trick us into seeing the image brighter because it's lit by the screen. On my Mac, the first thing I had to edit was the gamma setting (brightness): it was reduced from 2.2 to 1.8, which may not seem like much, but it made a huge difference in my images. It also helped with web design, but thats another story.
I try to edit my pictures to be brighter than I'd like anyway.
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