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PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:04 am     Reply with quote
How can I be sure that my monitor's color settings are optimal and that I'm really seeing the colors that others are? I've noticed slight differentials from monitor to monitor to monitor, and printing always seems to come out slightly different as well. Is there a program or a website that will help me achieve optimal, or at least standardized settings?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:59 am     Reply with quote
in photoshop, set view/proof setup to monitor RGB if you haven't already. if you are really serious about it then you can get a spyder, http://www.colorvision.com/product-mc-s2e.php

we had one at work and it did a good job.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:42 am     Reply with quote
thanks for the reply, I dunno if I'll go the spyder route, but I didn't know that I could tinker with color inside ps itself, I'll give it a go
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:23 am     Reply with quote
I thought the proper method was to make a monitor profile with adobe gamma or a calibration tool, and select that in windows' display properties. (Assuming you use Windows.) If you pick monitor profile in Photoshop, things will look different in Photoshop than they do in other apps on your computer. Or am I wrong?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:35 am     Reply with quote
I have no profile set in PS.
I calibrate with adobe gamma.

When I print stuff at a service in their 17" wide roll feed Epson, dont know the model number, the color comes out very close. Its not perfect, but I dont need it be perfect for architectural renders.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 4:33 pm     Reply with quote
Uggh, I think I just made things worse with all my tinkering, and I've been away from home so I can't tell for sure. Does the grey message background on this site behind this light blue text that you're reading have a somewhat noticable greenish tint, or is it a neutral grey...or is it a slightly blue grey...?


Even my windows menues look like they have some yellow in there grey now...I think, but I can't tell if it's my eyes playing tricks on me... I should have just left it alone Mad
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:48 pm     Reply with quote
it's slightly greenish.

http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/dartiste/matte_painting_2/callforentries/guidelines.php

scroll the page down for "Image Preparation" and "2. Monitor gamma and colour settings vary considerably"

There's some gamma stuff and an image you can use for calibrating your monitor at least to some level.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:10 am     Reply with quote
If you take a screen shot of this page, pop it into photoshop you'll see the RGB values

Light box: 78, 96, 108
Dark box: 59, 76, 84

So a low saturation blue/green
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:02 am     Reply with quote
Thanks for all the help/advice, I think I got things under control now, though it took quite a bit of tinkering.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:33 am     Reply with quote
Whenever I get a new monitor I spend 30-60 minutes adjusting it Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:23 pm     Reply with quote
buy a formac, its adjusted before it leaves the factory - mine needed a minor tweek.. Wink
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:52 pm     Reply with quote
I dont spend that much time doing it because it needs it. I spend that time because I enjoy it Smile

Its an old Viewsonic GS790 CRT from 2000. So I suppose I could use a new one Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:19 pm     Reply with quote
ouch keeping a monitor for 7 years!! 2 years and i buy a new one!
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