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    Great Idea

    Thanks very much!

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    I think I better calibrate my reading glasses first

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    Thanks that is a really good tool to have.

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    works for me

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    Monitor Calibration

    Thanks for the monitor calibration tip

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    Thanks for the great link, I new my laptop monitor was bad, now I know how bad it really is. Saved your link for when I finally buy a good desktop monitor.

    Has anyone got any suggestions for a combined photo editing, internet browsing, document creation/editing, videos and movies? I would imagine this would require at least 2 monitor settings (as most use apart from photo editing is generally better on a brighter/greener screen - especially Blu-ray/DVD as they are made for out-of-box too bright and too green LCD/plasma these days).

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    Hardware calibration devices are the ONLY way to get anything that is consistent with a known standard. So look at getting yourself a calibrator. There are several out there.
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    I think my monitor is not very good.
    I struggle to get the colors right.
    Maybe I have to get a better one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kroppkaka View Post
    I think my monitor is not very good.
    I struggle to get the colors right.
    Maybe I have to get a better one.
    You would be much better of spending your money on a monitor calibration device

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    Mine checks ok thnks for the post Kym
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    Very good test site. I haven't calibrated my monitor because I've been very happy with the standard display. The test confirms it is pretty much spot on only falling down a little in the black and white contrast tests (and doesn't seem to have the quality to be improved by fiddling with the settings).

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    Robert we're not talking about how good the colours are on your display, And how much you like the colours , It's about Calibration to a set standard , So that what you see on your screen while you go through the processing of images, Is what you get when you view the printed artical , No point in processing Images and when printed dont look like anything you saw at all !!!
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    Hi, thanks for this, have new monitor and thought I needed to calibrate it. All seems ok. Cheers Cherry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cherry View Post
    Hi, thanks for this, have new monitor and thought I needed to calibrate it. All seems ok. Cheers Cherry.
    Chances are you probably do, the calibration bar IS NOT going to tell you if your screen is calibrated correctly, just that it is set to the correct brightness levels, nothing more

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    thanks for the calibration bar

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    Good thing mines calibrated!

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    Thanks Kym for shedding light on the subject

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    If you're serious - get a Spyder. But there's not much point getting one, if you have a crappy monitor in the first place. I've tried a number of other Gamma correcting software to calibrate monitors and they all end leaving you seeing spots. The grey scale chart is a good start, but colour temperature is so important if you're dealing with colour images. Most cheap LCD monitors have a blue cast. Laptop monitors are another problem because they generally don't have the facility to adjust the colour temp at all and usually only brightness and not contrast.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GJC View Post
    If you're serious - get a Spyder. But there's not much point getting one, if you have a crappy monitor in the first place. I've tried a number of other Gamma correcting software to calibrate monitors and they all end leaving you seeing spots. The grey scale chart is a good start, but colour temperature is so important if you're dealing with colour images. Most cheap LCD monitors have a blue cast. Laptop monitors are another problem because they generally don't have the facility to adjust the colour temp at all and usually only brightness and not contrast.
    Any monitor can be calibrated! And calibrating it will improve it. The issue of the calibration bar not being a guide of a good monitor has been repeatedly emphasised in this thread. We also have another thread in the Colour Management forum that deals with the different types of monitors and their quality in general. That thread is here and there is a list of available calibration devices here.

    it doesn't matter if you have a $200.00 monitor or $20,000 monitor, calibration will be required, and regularly, if your work requires accuracy to a high degree of tolerance.

    And it would be great to see some of the photos you have managed to process on all these monitors you have calibrated. I just went to have a look and see the work you produce with them, but can't find a single photo you have put on AP for others to see.
    Last edited by ricktas; 29-09-2011 at 7:02pm.

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