On 17 Jun 2005 at 10:01, Joaquim Carvalho wrote: > SuperCal and it is free. > Software calibrators are as good as or better than any calibration tool, > the problem is not everybody can use them, you have to understand how > they work: > > Software calibrators use you as the light sensor, you have to adjust the > brightness of several color areas to match the brightness of another > area that has some pixels ON and some other OFF, you must put your eyes > out of focus so the light/darkness from adjacent pixels blends, > concentrate and do it acuratelly and for several times with the three > RGB colors at several brightness levels. This way the software gets to > know the precise brightness curve for each light component, as seen by > you, and generates a perfect color profile.
WOW, the money I could have saved. I suggest that you do just a tiny bit of research before you go misleading the good folks here. Visual calibration is useful to a point i.e. gamma adjustment but it cannot be used to set colour temperature or absolute black and white levels to pre-set standards. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
