Colour calibration frustration

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Hello all! I'm designing my website at the moment and I've been putting together a couple of portfolios. When I look at them on my main iMac monitor, they look nice and contrasty with good, vivid colour. However, when I drag them over to my secondary monitor they suddenly become washed out and lose the warm yellowish hue they have when viewed on my iMac monitor.

I've calibrated both the monitors but I still have the same problem. Does anyone else find this extremely frustrating?! Which monitor should I edit the photos on? My concern is that when viewed by clients they will look too bright/dark, washed out/contrasty etc depending on what monitor they're using.
 
I've had similar in the past, some graphics cards don't handle profiling too well when you are using multi-monitor set-up.
 
How have you calibrated them?
 
are you sure you can profile 2 screens with the spyder?

what model/brand is the 2nd display

and contrary to popular belief, calibration isn't some miracle that will make all screens of all shapes, sizes and panel technologies look the same the world over, there is always a degree of compromise to it as the technology used in different screens will inheritantly effect how they render colours- my calibrated macbook pro (with TN panel)looks nothing like my calibrated IPS monitor, both are profiled with colour eyes display 2, and both are accurate, but when flicking from one to the other there is a noticeable difference
with 2 identical monitors you can match across both

try color eyes display 2, I think there's a trial- but be warned it's so good you should probably start budgeting for it right now as you won't be able to live without it.
 
You need to have a video card capable of supporting two LUT's (Look Up Tables) That way you can use the Studio Match feature of the Spyder 3. If your card only supports one LUT, it will only load one calibrated profile. The other will be set to whatever you tell it to via manual calibration.

The Sypder will calibrate both monitors but only one profile can be loaded unless you have a card capable of handling two.
 
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