Hi,
Me again. I'm having some trouble calibrating my monitor and was wondering if you may suggest a website that may be helpful or some benchmark I can use.
The Step-by-Step guide suggests www.photographerusa.com/screencheck and also contains some images to help with the calibration of brightness, contrast and color, but I found conflict when using these two methods. I calibrate using the images provided and then using the website and by then the images don't look good anymore.
My husband suggested using a calibration device, like Spyder. Would that really make a difference? Have you used one of those?
Thanks,
Gabi
Me again. I'm having some trouble calibrating my monitor and was wondering if you may suggest a website that may be helpful or some benchmark I can use.
The Step-by-Step guide suggests www.photographerusa.com/screencheck and also contains some images to help with the calibration of brightness, contrast and color, but I found conflict when using these two methods. I calibrate using the images provided and then using the website and by then the images don't look good anymore.
My husband suggested using a calibration device, like Spyder. Would that really make a difference? Have you used one of those?
Thanks,
Gabi
So, If you are calibrating your LCD monitor, it's wasting of time.
Just simply set it to 2.2.
WYSIWSG
Having said that, there are a lot of factors "post-display" that will affect print color as well. Even the most advanced sophisticated photo lab needs to calibrate their equipment. Even Wal-Mart uses some pretty good photo lab equipment, but I don't bring my photos there simply for this reason...their machines aren't calibrated as well as the same equipment at a professional lab, and you can see the difference.
Well, I had never felt the need to mess with the calibration of any monitor, but since trying to learn how to render using PhotoWorks it suddenly seems more or less important to obtain a good image, if only to be able to tell if what I see is what it should look like... Now I wonder if the image I see on display is the one that would print at all! Oh, but it's frustrating... This is also kind of subjective, isn't it? I have two identical computers, calibrated the same way, and the image in each monitor still looks slightly different!! Or am I color blind? I guess I'll just try to find something in between the images that come with the book and the website recommended and go with that. If my husband ever remembers to bring the spyder and let me borrow it, then I'll give it a try and let you know if it makes any difference at all.
Thanks,
Gabi