Doe Loc: N, Augusta, South Carolina

I just calibrated my laptop screen and now everything looks like it has a brownish tone to it, or maybe warmed up!

I don't understand what happened......

I now understand why the business cards were coming back looking brownish. But, I am posting a pic of the pic I took of all three prints.

If I do need to recalibrate, do I set my laptop back to the default or go from what the first calibration has changed it to????

The first one is from my printer and on the white paper. The second and third ones are Vistaprints attempts to send me B&W business cards. It is clear to see that the two Vistaprint sent me are brownish, one is just a bit better attempt at B&W. This pic was taken "before I calibrated" my laptop screen. But now, even my black and white looks tinted brown on my screen.

Please help me figure out what i have to do to get back to what I see as B&W!!! Should I recalibrate my screen and hope it sees the problem.

On the positive side.........my screen was too dark, which explains my photos printing out to dark. But, now I have to change all my photos I have done so far.

MWAC Loc: Somewhere East Of Crazy

If you've just calibrated and your pictures are now looking more brown than black, and before your black & whites were printing more brown/whites then maybe just maybe you are now seeing the "true" colours.

My computer is calibrated and the samples you posted above are all different degress of brown/white not a true black/white.

Doe Loc: N, Augusta, South Carolina

I wish I would have posted the 3 of the pics before....because the first one truly looked B&W before my screen was calibrated. Maybe if I post the photo from the other thread again, it will show the difference as well.

Doe Loc: N, Augusta, South Carolina

So, how do I get my true B&W back? If my B&W above is looking brown to you then it's not right.......because I changed it to grey scale.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

If you are getting prints back from a print house that are brown...and they looked black on your monitor before, but now they look brown...congratulations....your monitor is now showing the actual colors of your shots.

Doe Loc: N, Augusta, South Carolina

So, does that mean I need another computer? I can't get it to convert a simple color photo into a B&W photo. I don't know what I should do now??????

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

No....what it means is that what you are seeing is reality.

I'm not quite sure what's happening now...it's getting confusing.


Can you do this?


Take a picture of a black and white object and open it up in the computer.

What does it look like?

OR

Go to MS Paint and pick the black color and paint some black on white.

If it looks black or if the picture you took above looks black all that means is that what you THOUGHT was black before...wasn't...you created brown pictures thinking that they were black.

OR....post a full size picture of something black and or white that you've taken and we can look at it and also you open it up and we can compare notes.

Doe Loc: N, Augusta, South Carolina

Uriah

Are you running XP? If so check your settings to see if auto adjust is active
HTH

CaptainC Loc: Colorado, south of Denver

This is a longshot. What did you do with the profile your hardware created?
On a Mac, it should be in User>Library>ColorSync. Don't know windows.

You are not by any chance using that as your image profile are you? That needs to be sRGB/AdobeRGB 1998.

I am not suggesting this is the problem - but I have known some folks to make this mistake. I have NO idea what kind of problems this might cause.

Doe Loc: N, Augusta, South Carolina

No, I have Windows 7

Doe Loc: N, Augusta, South Carolina

I will take a picture. Can I use my flash on the camera?

Doe Loc: N, Augusta, South Carolina

I can't say. I loaded it up correctly, but it asked me some questions that I didn't know. For instance, it wanted the name of manufacture and the model of the monitor. Well, I have an HP Laptop, so I put HP, but then just used what was in the box, something with PnP or something like that. It also asked about a grumet, I don't have a clue what that is either. So, I was already in the setting up part and I couldn't answer the questions for certain. I don't know if that is what might be the problem.

But, I do know the difference between black, gray and white verses something with a tint of browns. And my screen is more brownish for the gray colors. It truly is overpowering in a brown tone.

I am going to try and remove the program completely and do it again......

barbkelly Loc: Delaware

From my experience calibrating your screen is not going to help you with home printing or printing with Vistaprints. You calibrate so that you can adjust your monitor to match prints that you get from a pro lab. Or a lab who does NOT color correct your digital images before printing. Most, if not all, consumer labs will automatically color correct your images unless you tell them not to. You don't need to be a pro to have your photos printed by a pro lab.

Doe Loc: N, Augusta, South Carolina

I removed the downloaded program, which got my monitor screen back to normal, well, my normal.

This time I decided to have the Spyder check the calibrations of my laptop instead of having it just go in and do it's thing.

I don't understand what any of this means and I am hoping that someone will be able to explain it to me. Here is what the results were

CURRENT / TARGET
(I am assuming these catagories means settings)
Gamma - 2.2 / 2.2
White point - 0.314 0.338 / 0.313 0.329

70% sRGB
53% NTSC
54% Adobe RGB

There was no other information that I could see to write down other than the above.

I am not going to have the Spyder re-calibrate my laptop right now. I am hoping that one of you that understand what these above numbers mean can advise me as to whether I should have it recalibrated or if there is something else I can do to keep the Spyder from turning my gray scale into a brown scale.

PLEASE HELP!!!!