Is there any standard or program to help you edit photos to the correct lightness for actual real life printing?

Seeing as I've already helped my mother go through a disturbingly large amount of photos and tried to help her balance the lighting a bit it's sort of a case of locking the barn door after the horse is out. Thought I'd ask though. I was trying to get some decent prints of my dolls and wraps and such to have a bit of a portfolio going, but what looks fine to a bit light on my laptop looks too dark on my parents pc and I've no clue which would be more accurate to the printed page. Ideas or tips anyone?

Back. Relaxing didn't happen much. Saw some neat things though. You'll probably get stuck seeing some of the photos. Sorry. Sorta.

Going on vacation tomorrow. Keep telling myself I'll catch up with my watch list when I get back. We'll see if I can keep myself to that. Hopefully at least I'll come back with good photos!

Just ran across a fun comic/poem by my favorite poet. I know I've posted her things before. But I find new pieces of hers so rarely it's exciting and I needed to share with someone

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Hit the craft and antique shows between work this weekend. Another way you can tell spring is coming! Better than robins, handmade antique show signs are. Saw neat things, eyeballed things to try to make, the usual.

Had two standouts, one of the jewelers at the craft show was really fantastic (seemed like a nice guy too, chatted for a bit) he just had an unusual style, made me think of the mesoamerican empires. His website's [link] I'm not big on all of the stones, but the guy has some serious wire control skills. My other standout was a bit of an impulse buy at the antique show. Old watch, supposedly 20s. Looks like a watch stuck in a crystal marble. The front is magnified with a glass half sphere, ditto the back. So you can see the movement. Has a band around it with a loop. Anyone know anything about watches? It's the first I've had that you need to wind, and it doesn't seem to be keeping time so well, but I don't know if they need to get back into the habit of functioning after not having been wound for sometime, or if I ought to hit the jewelers to see if I can get the guts cleaned. Ideas?