monitor calibration
Dec 9, 2011 18:29:58 #
vinnya
Loc: connecticut
anybody have any experience on calibrating there monitor and any software recomendations
Dec 9, 2011 20:17:51 #
Dec 9, 2011 21:23:40 #
Gold standard are the X-Rite products. X-Rite i1 Display or the X-Rite color Munki. Others are OK and do a good job, but X-Rite seems to have the best stuff.
Dec 9, 2011 21:44:05 #
Pepper
Loc: Planet Earth Country USA
CaptainC wrote:
Gold standard are the X-Rite products. X-Rite i1 Display or the X-Rite color Munki. Others are OK and do a good job, but X-Rite seems to have the best stuff.
It better be the best at $500.00!
Dec 10, 2011 05:32:41 #
I own the Elite and thisdoes an excelent job.
nyweb2001 wrote:
I don't own it yet but a lot of people tell me Spyder 3 Elite
Dec 10, 2011 05:39:35 #
It may have been installed with Photoshop C3, but my WinXP in the hardware, or display of control panel I found and use the calibration tool and it works well, for what I see my Canon Pro 9000 prints.
vinnya wrote:
anybody have any experience on calibrating there monitor and any software recomendations
Dec 10, 2011 06:37:06 #
I have seen lots of recommendations such as those below that say you should spend money to make your monitor "accurate." But there is one reply who says what he sees on his monitor looks pretty much like what comes out of his printer. i may be simpleminded but I really don't see the point of making my monitor show colors as "accurately" as possible. It seems to me that I want my monitor's display to look as much like my printer's output - especially if my printer is not "accurate."
Am I off the beam?
Am I off the beam?
Dec 10, 2011 06:55:14 #
charlessmall18 wrote:
I have seen lots of recommendations such as those ... (show quote)
I don't' think you are off beam but what you are REALLY trying for is to reproduce what you SAW when you took a photo...
If you take a self portrait and you have a baby blue jacket on, just because your printer is so far off that the jacket comes out looking like it's purple doesn't mean that you should calibrate for that.
Your monitor and your printer should reproduce what you actually see.
I hope that makes sense.
Dec 10, 2011 06:56:48 #
Dun1
Loc: Atlanta, GA
The Xrite 1 one, of Xrite Eye One, not only will calibrate your monitor so you get great printer output, just like you view it on your screen, but it will allow you to compensate for the lighting levels at a specific time of day based on the room light. If you have ever edited photos early in the morning or late in the evening and return to finish an edit, you might notice that the images look so much different,
Dec 10, 2011 07:01:26 #
If your printer cannot produce an accurate reproduction of a displayed image...nothing will work and calibration is a waist of time in that case. cheers
:mrgreen:
charlessmall18 wrote:
I have seen lots of recommendations such as those ... (show quote)
:mrgreen:
Dec 10, 2011 09:23:13 #
Wrong, you have to calibrate both screen and printer. If you dont know how to calibrate both then you will never get accurate pictures printed.
ltruex wrote:
If your printer cannot produce an accurate reprodu... (show quote)
Dec 10, 2011 09:34:25 #
Why not explain the process and required software? L3
Brucej67 wrote:
Wrong, you have to calibrate both screen and print... (show quote)
Dec 10, 2011 18:40:22 #
Basically, I use the Spyder 3 to calibrate the monitor which keeps the monitor calibrated as the room light changes. As far as the printer I have the Canon Pro 9500 Mark II which comes with calibration software (though there are items you could buy that measures print color output and allows you to calibrate it with the screen). The software from Canon allows me to match the output I see on the screen as far as color and Spyder allows me to calibrate the screen automatically to RGB or aRGB.
ltruex wrote:
Why not explain the process and required software?... (show quote)
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