bifta23 Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 What's the easiest way to calibrate your monitor for photography? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 What do you mean? I have no idea about photography...so I'll shut up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 For true colour matching there is a "spider" which you can place on your monitor for very accurate calibration. They do cost around 90 but are very accurate. A lot of monitors have colour calibration software. Its pretty important to calibrate properly because what you seen on the screen can differ considerably to whats printed. If you are using a certain photolab, some of them provide software. More info and I can help man i.e. are you printing yourself or using a lab, type of monitor etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 no idea if this is the proper way, but print out a photo, then compare the print to what you see on screen, so you can set the screen to the colours of the photo - ie what you will be printingDavid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 i've just always used the adobe gamma correction plugin, which should show up in the control panel if you have photoshop installed...i still have problems tho when working between LCD and CRT and getting web colours perfect is just a nightmare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bifta23 Posted January 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 Thanks for the advice. Don’t do a huge amount of digi prints but have had varying results from Jessops, PhotoBox and my own printer. Just want to make sure that I’m calibrated for when I send pics out. Currently trying to cobble a website together and want to get the colours right for that too. I have a Iiyama Vision Master CRT and debating whether to buy an LCD/TFT screen. Going to take a look at the Adobe Gamma tool the noo…Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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