Anyone got a AOC i2367fh

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I got one today seems good but have little I dear about the settings

I'll look to get it calibrated but for now
the srgb can't be changed *I think* just the user setting

any tips on please on setting this up

Thanks
Helen
 
I found this website when I recently bought a monitor, it give good info on roughly calibrating your monitor. Beware though, it goes get very geeky in places.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-online-tools-calibrate-monitor/

Personally I refuse to buy at great expense a spyder type device to calibrate my monitor as all it guarantees is my images look the same as on another calibrated monitors. As long as my prints look near enough the same as my monitor image that's fine for me.
 
Doesn't windows 7 have a monitor calibrator ? i'm sure XP used to have one.
 
Thanks for the replies
I did try those tests and looks like I'm pretty near on the default setting, I turned the brightness down about 5%

As for all the other setting, I'm still lose

I did have one problem that *some people blamed on me*
I sort of found out what was going on with them being washed out when viewed buy some others on flickr
I had taken them from Lightroom in to Elements (edit in elements on the right click) they looked fine but when I saved them , for some unknown reason they washed out ??? still don't know what's making that happen

To get over this I had to first export from Lightroom and save them, then take them in to Elements, and they are fine

Any ideas why this should happen from Lightroom to Elements ?,
I may also post this in pp section

H
 
Probably colour spaces. Set EVERYTHING to process in sRGB - including exports.

You really need a calibrator to calibrate/profile a monitor - the manual setups are not very good at all...
 
arad85 said:
Probably colour spaces. Set EVERYTHING to process in sRGB - including exports.

You really need a calibrator to calibrate/profile a monitor - the manual setups are not very good at all...
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Hmm could be but I tried another way Camera raw import to elements and it was fine it's just from lightroom to elements that it messes up :shrug:

H
 
Hell on earth said:
Hmm could be but I tried another way Camera raw import to elements and it was fine it's just from lightroom to elements that it messes up :shrug:

H
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In Lightroom -> Edit -> Preferences -> External Editing what is the Color Space setting for the edit in Elements?
 
arad85 said:
In Lightroom -> Edit -> Preferences -> External Editing what is the Color Space setting for the edit in Elements?
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Says for elements Tiff 16bit pro-photo RGB (as recommended for preserving colour for lightroom)

All other programs Tiff 8bit srgb

So Elements can't handy 16bit pro-photo ? seems strange that they would set that as default :shrug:

H
 
Hell on earth said:
So Elements can't handy 16bit pro-photo ?
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No - that's not the case. You aren't understanding colour spaces properly (and I'm not about to try and explain it all - google is good for that ;)). Try setting it to sRGB and seeing if you still have an issue.

My guess is you have your export setting as to filetype as "original" which will preserve the Pro Photo colour space. The problem is, many apps and web browsers don't manage colour spaces correctly....
 
arad85 said:
No - that's not the case. You aren't understanding colour spaces properly (and I'm not about to try and explain it all - google is good for that ;)). Try setting it to sRGB and seeing if you still have an issue.

My guess is you have your export setting as to filetype as "original" which will preserve the Pro Photo colour space. The problem is, many apps and web browsers don't manage colour spaces correctly....
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Ahh ok

Thank you

H
 
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You really need a calibrator to calibrate/profile a monitor
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You could spend thousands of pounds on calibrating your monitor but that won't stop your images looking dark or 'washed out' when other people view your images over the internet.
 
redsnappa said:
You could spend thousands of pounds on calibrating your monitor
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Really? I'm in the wrong business.... or it's the end of the tax year and you need to "lose" some money ;)

A decent calibrator will set you back ~£100. You have it for life and can be used on every monitor you have.

At least that way, you'll know the image is right before it left you. Otherwise, you'll always be asking is the image rubbish because your monitor is way out of calibration or is it other peoples fault?
 
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