callibration query..

[bluesilver]

Hi,

I have a query that I can't get my head around but it is probably very common..I use Lightroom generally, PS CS5 when I have to. I edit on an IPS panel (dell u2410)

I find when I process images, especially when it is studio using a white background and I'm trying to clean up any marks on the floor or background, I can on occasion see where I have edited things out, depending on what screen I view them on. I calibrated my dell screen using the EyE One gadget and the image will look fine, but if I look at it on a laptop or on another screen at work, I can often see white 'splodges' or even gaps where I have a darker shade of white where I've missed a bit when I have tried to make the white background clean and white.

My method of working is generally to use Lightroom and use the adjustment brush, whack the exposure up to 100 and paint the picture. For areas such as getting close to objects and people I click on the 'mask' button and go around them.

Is this the right way to do things or is there a better way of doing it?

thanks all. I'm just finding it very frustrating looking on my 'calibrated' monitor and thinking it all looks fine, and then looking at my cheap netbook or work monitor and it appearing to show me things that I can't see on my £500 screen!
I know it's all about my screen being darker for print and that's fine, but my work is also on the interweb and that's where things fall down..

 

[coldpenguin]

Is the eye one a spectrograph or colourimeter? The Dell, if you have it running at full gamut, will require a decent calibrator to calibrate properly. It sounds as if you have the screen too bright. (One device has 3 light dependent resistors, with a green, red, blue mask, the other device truly reads the frequency of the light coming in)

One trick I found out about on Sunday, if you click the mask whilst holding down ALT, the whole image will turn the black and white mask. This has allowed me to easily see any small bits where a mask may have gone grey, rather than pure black/white.

 

[bluesilver]

thanks for the tip coldpenguin - I'll check it out

 

[steve_lyt]

you may have already done this , but before you calibrate reset the monitor to default settings.

Cheers Steve