Yes, just make sure the calibrator you get supports multiple monitors....most all of the new ones do. It can be done without that support but it is a PITA. Each monitor has it's own .icc color profile that the calibrator will modify.
-----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Color issues Actually, it's not a photograph... it's a program that takes the "recipe" for tufting and turns it into a picture of what the carpet is supposed to look like. :-) I like the idea of calibrating the monitors... will that work with a multi-monitor system using different brands of monitors? -----Original Message----- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Color issues You have to calibrate the monitor. I do this for my photography. I have always preferred the Spyder calibrators but there are others. http://spyder.datacolor.com/product-mc.php Now, you have one more variable. Is your camera accurately capturing the color and is your software properly interpreting the data in the image. Probably not. So you calibrate the monitor....but you display a picture that has bad color data. Only way to get it near perfect is to shoot a color card next to the carpet sample....then adjust the image in photoshop so the color card colors are correct. However, if you skip the color card step you should be pretty darn close with a decent camera and proper lighting. -----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Color issues Our marketing guy is also our product design guy. He's got some special software that allows him to take a carpet pattern and make a picture of what it should look like. We then post that picture on our website. One of the managers was complaining because the colors don't match up to the actual sample. I have tried to explain to him that it will vary quite a bit depending on the type of machine and monitor you're looking at the picture on. We showed the same picture on four different monitors hooked up to two different machines and got four different colors, a couple of them dramatically different from the other 2. Two of the monitors were Dell LCD desktop monitors, one was a Dell XPS laptop screen, the 4th was an IBM flat panel. It was the darkest and "greenest" even after resetting the monitor to the factory specs using the on-board reset. Now that I've explained the problem... any suggestions on how to get things so that they closely approximate the actual product? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
