I thought I was clever...

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Bought a new Samsung monitor to go along with my current screen & decided to install the colour management software and create colour profiles for both of them. So I did this and the colours on each screen didn't look the same so I started playing around :nono:

Now my colours are all messed up, a picture that I use as my wallpaper doesn't look right but if I open it with photoshop it looks different on each screen and again different from what it looks like on the desktop.

None of them look right & I cant find a way to restore to the default colour profile settings :bang:

Any help anyone can give me would be most appreciated as I'm well and truely confused now:help:
 
I can't help you much here but if you're on windows and using one graphics card for 2 monitors, I don't think you can set up two profiles and you just have to accept they will look different.
 
According to "colour management" in the control panel in Vista I can choose a colour profile for each monitor which I have done, and when I move a window between the two monitors I can see the colour changing as it goes from one screen to the other, I just cant seem to get the colour right.
 
Oooh, must be a new feature in Vista (still working on XP) to set up dual monitor calibration. I am withdrawing from this thread now but I'll keep an eye out as I'm upgrading to a new PC soon.
 
Can you uninstall the software and try re-installing it?
 
The reason image look different in PS on each monitor is because PS is using the profile you created to adjust the screen colours for that monitor. That the results are different shows the profiles you created are wrong.

You can remove the profiles by going to Control Panel > Color Management and deleting them from there. This will put you back where you were but you still won't have calibrated displays :(

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Dual profiles for monitors is supported but only properly is the gfx card also supports it. The Samsung software is probably writing data to the gamma ramp as part of the calibration but I don't know if it supports dual monitors which will only add to the problems - one will be right (ish) and the other will use the same gamma ramp and be wrong.
 
I've managed to get back to square one by deleting the colour profiles and setting the system defaults back to how they were (I copied the default settings from my laptop). At least now when I open the picture I use as my wallpaper it matches what is on the desktop. Now I need to find a way of getting both monitors to match.

This is the problem at the moment, please excuse the crap picture, just trying to show the difference in colour between the screens

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Hardware calibration that supports dual monitors is probably the only answer - Huey Pro, Spyder3, etc. will sort it out :thumbs:
 
pxl8 said:
Hardware calibration that supports dual monitors is probably the only answer - Huey Pro, Spyder3, etc. will sort it out :thumbs:
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Do you think it will matter that the screens aren't the same model and one is a few years older than the other? If I could get them both "correct" that would be great.

So much for Samsung's "Natural Colour" software! :razz:
 
I have the Huey pro and it did a great job of calibrating the two monitors I was using on my PC. If you know someone nearby you can install it and create the profiles then remove the software. Every computer I own is calibrated with my huey pro including the families laptops!

I found Huey pros for sale including delivery from Canada on Ebay at about £50
 
CSB said:
Do you think it will matter that the screens aren't the same model and one is a few years older than the other? If I could get them both "correct" that would be great.

So much for Samsung's "Natural Colour" software! :razz:
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H/W calibration would get them very close, but not perfect.
 
Just found one on ebay USA for $76 buy it now not sure what the postage would be to UK. It is worth having a look...
 
Thanks for your help guys, I'll look into getting some kind of hardware calibration device.
 
I've found that even with hardware calibration they may not look the same, my external monitor dsplays a wider range of brightness values than my laptop display, so can look different, even though both are calibrated.
 
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