How to Calibrate you monitors?
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Just do a Google search for "monitor calibration" and you will be overloaded with links and info. It is an essential part of proper color management and especially important if you make your own prints.
Essentailly you will buy software and a special device that will attach to your monitor and the rest will be following specific steps that make no sense to post here, but will be very clear once you get going with it. You'll want to calibrate every few months.
Essentailly you will buy software and a special device that will attach to your monitor and the rest will be following specific steps that make no sense to post here, but will be very clear once you get going with it. You'll want to calibrate every few months.
The quickest way is to use Adobe Gamma. It installs automatically with Photoshop. But you might not have $800 laying around for PS. http://www.signindustry.com/computers/articles/2002-10-01-Stan-MonitorCalibration.php3
So the second and best way is with a spectrophotometer and the included calibration software. I use a Spyder2. Search "monitor calibration" at Amazon, adorama, or B&H photo for different products. I calibrate all three of my monitors monthly. The Spyder2 will check the colors with the spectrophotometer and adjust the colors in a custom monitor profile that will load when you boot up. If you want to match true colors and want what you see on the screen to match what you see on prints, you have to calibrate. Most monitors have a blue tint to save on eye strain in office conditions. This sucks for photos. Everything looks washed out. Definately worth the 80 bucks.
Here's an example. On a calibrated monitor this picture of a sweatbee I took should look neon green, The flower should be a bright pink. If the green color does not pop and the flower and border looks lavender, then you need calibration.
So the second and best way is with a spectrophotometer and the included calibration software. I use a Spyder2. Search "monitor calibration" at Amazon, adorama, or B&H photo for different products. I calibrate all three of my monitors monthly. The Spyder2 will check the colors with the spectrophotometer and adjust the colors in a custom monitor profile that will load when you boot up. If you want to match true colors and want what you see on the screen to match what you see on prints, you have to calibrate. Most monitors have a blue tint to save on eye strain in office conditions. This sucks for photos. Everything looks washed out. Definately worth the 80 bucks.
Here's an example. On a calibrated monitor this picture of a sweatbee I took should look neon green, The flower should be a bright pink. If the green color does not pop and the flower and border looks lavender, then you need calibration.
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