Monitor settings Help

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OMG!! I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I have spent the last 12 months downloading and editing pics on my laptop screen. Now I realise its not got the best display in the world, but I figured it was fairly close in its reproduction...until tonight.

Unable to sleep having drunk a gallon of coffee to get me through working till about 1am, I decided to plug my old CRT monitor into the laptop for a play...and suddenly discover that hitherto dull flat pictures have suddenly sprung to life.... and you dont even want to know what I am thinking of regarding what were previously thought of lively pictures. :cuckoo: I am looking at some on the crt cringing because I think I may have over processed them to compensate for the laptop screen! :gag:

However, I am now stuck with a problem, how do I know which screen is actually 'correct' and how do I make sure at least one of them is set up accurately? Is there any test images or something available you can use to get settings accurate? I know you can buy those thingymajigs electronic gizmos that check it, but as I have just smoked the credit card [more about THAT tomorrow] thats not an option at the moment.

Any help and advice would be much appreciated .... :help: :help:
 
You have my sympathy for the problems you are experiencing.
Unfortunately one of those electronic thingies is the only reliable way to go. The best bet is to get a complete set so you can calibrate your printer at the same time.
Colour management seems to be something of a black art to me but I find a Colour Confidence Spyder Pro works well and is easy to set up. Colour Confidence themselves are very helpful and it may well be worth your time giving them a call, sorry don’t have the number to hand but you should find it on goggle quite quickly.
Sadly (for your credit card) they do recommend changing monitors quite regularly as well!

Not what you want to hear but I hope it helps.
 
I use this LadyLens; http://www.quickgamma.de/indexen.html and the monitor profile tool thats on the same page.
I have a CRT and a TFT screen (226BW), both good quality Samsung ones and although TFT's are improving at a rapid rate it seems to me that my CRT still gives me a more accurate view of the graphics displayed.
It's certainly worth it calibrating the screens that we use on a photography forum :D.
Makes me wonder at some of the comments at times :thinking:.
 
Susane said:
I use this LadyLens; http://www.quickgamma.de/indexen.html and the monitor profile tool thats on the same page.
I have a CRT and a TFT screen (226BW), both good quality Samsung ones and although TFT's are improving at a rapid rate it seems to me that my CRT still gives me a more accurate view of the graphics displayed.
It's certainly worth it calibrating the screens that we use on a photography forum :D.
Makes me wonder at some of the comments at times :thinking:.
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Hi
Just brought a new 22" Samsung, pic looks great, set it up with Adobe Gamma, probably give your link a go as well just to check.
Chris
 
:bonk: I give up, cant even figure out the lappy, it still looks like someone smeared vaseline across the display. Still, its a cheap laptop with an even cheaper screen, so from now on will run all pics/editing through the CRT until I can get something half decent. My other half looked at the dummies shot I put in the street photography thread, displayed on both screens at once and said 'bloody hell, thats what having a cataracts removed is like'! That gives you an idea of how bad the laptop is! :'(

Susane, thanks will take a look at that :thumbs:
 
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