Monitor colour temperature

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What temperature settings to you folks have on your monitors ? apparently mine has been set to 9300K I changed it to the 'standard' 6500K but to me it looks way to warm, so I changed it back.

I've now done the Adobe calibrate thingy and set that to match my monitor @ 9300K but it has got me to thinking will my images look to warm on other peoples monitors if they are set to 6500K? A photo I have as a backdrop looks fine to me at 9300K but when I changed to 6500K the reds were far to saturated.

What do you people run things at ?
 
6500 I think. You really need to use a hardware calibration tool to get it right. I use the Spyder2.

How do your prints look iun comparison to what you see?
 
I also use a spyder to calibrate my monitor, it recommends 6500K.
 
EOS_JD said:
6500 I think. You really need to use a hardware calibration tool to get it right. I use the Spyder2.

How do your prints look iun comparison to what you see?
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I must admit my prints always tend to look a little darker than on screen pictutres.

If I swap to 6500K the reds in this image look to saturated to me and it looks to warm, does it look that way to you ?

Dad-on-the-R6.jpg


I'm worried all my images look to warm to everyone else.
 
The colours in the photo look ok to me.

Mine is set to 6500.
 
The colours in the photo look ok to me to. Skin tone are good and the red looks just right. My monitor is set to 6500K. I think you may need to invest in a Spyder, which will sort out your monitor but not necessarily your prints from your printer.
 
I'm having no end of probs at the moment, as everything I do to my pics looks good on my monitor (well, good is a relative term, but you know what I mean), but when I post them, they don't look anything like what I saw.

My worry is, even if I got a calibrator, would I be able to use it? Is it really, really easy?
 
neonpollen said:
I must admit my prints always tend to look a little darker than on screen pictutres.

If I swap to 6500K the reds in this image look to saturated to me and it looks to warm, does it look that way to you ?

Dad-on-the-R6.jpg


I'm worried all my images look to warm to everyone else.
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looks spot on to me

i use

6500K, 2.2 Gamma
 
pic looks fine for me at 6500k
 
photostar_1 said:
I'm having no end of probs at the moment, as everything I do to my pics looks good on my monitor (well, good is a relative term, but you know what I mean), but when I post them, they don't look anything like what I saw.

My worry is, even if I got a calibrator, would I be able to use it? Is it really, really easy?
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Things like the Spyder series a very easy to use. :)

Be warned though, some older screens can be beyond calibration.

B.T.W. neonpollen.The bike pic looks okay here as well.
 
never tried adjusting the colour before on the monitor :thinking:

Just set it to 'warm' and it looks way better :woot:

Thx for the tip LOL
Always did it in windows :bonk:
 
Your shot looks fine to me Andy. I’m 6500 and 2.2 gamma as well.

I did have colour problems myself recently, seemed to get worse the more I tried to adjust it back so after much fapping about I simply downloaded new colour profiles (From Adobe or similar) stuck them in the right place over the old and everything went back to normal.
 
Your colour problems are very common. You need a calibrator. Even the Pantone Huey will help./ Pretty cheap compared to most.
 
I think it's time for a new monitor anyway, this one is on the blink everything keeps turning magenta :) Once I get a new monitor I'll have a look at a calibrator.
 
Andy you need an Apple 30" its a beast!!!:eek:
 
EOS_JD said:
Your colour problems are very common. You need a calibrator. Even the Pantone Huey will help./ Pretty cheap compared to most.
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Our man kerso sells them for £49.99
 
neonpollen said:
If I swap to 6500K the reds in this image look to saturated to me and it looks to warm, does it look that way to you ?
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It will look very red (warm) to you because you are used to running your monitor very blue (cool).
Set it to 6500 and you'll soon get used to it :)
 
SDK^ said:
It will look very red (warm) to you because you are used to running your monitor very blue (cool).
Set it to 6500 and you'll soon get used to it :)
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But my worry is then that I will edit my images and they will look to cool to other folks, the above image looks fine colour wise on my monitor running @ 9300K. If I swap to 6500K I would have to cool it down to make It look ok on my setup, then I may appear cool on everyone elses.


met me give it a try and see what happens.
 
So how does this look ? I edited with my monitor set to 6500K

6500K_Test.jpg
 
It really is impossible to see how it looks on your monitor. What you see and what we see will be different.

As above spend a little on some calibration equipment if the final output is important.

That way you'll start to see improvements.

Regards
Jim
 
Convention for colour settings on monitors is as follows (no diffrence between Mac & PC as their once was)

If using sRGB or Adobe 1998 as your colour space use
6500K 2.2 Gamma

If using ProPhotoRGB or ColorMatchRGB as your colour space use
5000K 1.8 Gamma

Hope this helps
 
Forbiddenbiker said:
looks fine, about the same as your first to me , only not quite so much red or possibly not quite as much contrast...very slight though.

I prefer the first. :D
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I thought it would look cooler but if it's only a light amount then that's fine, I was worried it would be too cool.

EOS_JD said:
It really is impossible to see how it looks on your monitor. What you see and what we see will be different.
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yes I know what I was after was how it looked on your monitor :) but FB says it's only a slight difference so I'm not so worried now. Still gonna get a new monitor and a calibartor though.
 
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