William Robb wrote: > From: "David J Brooks"Subject: Re: Monitor Calibration - get help wanted
>> I have the Spyder 1? bought from MR, and i, being a real chicken have >> yet to install this, as, basically, i'm afraid i'll screw somthing up. > > Dave, it's pretty easy. Just follow the instructions. They pretty much take > you by the hand and lead you to the promised land. You know, I must be the luckiest guy on the face of the Earth, at least with respect to process color control, or I have /really/ lax standards, severe color blindness, an incredible ability to adapt the perceived image to match the remembered image, or something. I do /nothing/ particularly special, and I have no problem getting prints that are, to my eye, virtually identical to the view I have on the screen in Photoshop. I've seen metamerism, but only on certain combinations of ink and paper, so I avoid those. I have a Samsung SyncMaster 955DF (19" CRT) running at 1600 x 1200 @ 70 Hz, driven by a board based on the nVidia GeForce 6600 GT with 256 MB of video memory. I "calibrate" it with Adobe Gamma. I print on an Epson Stylus Photo 820 that I've been banging on for at least three years. I only use Epson inks; papers are Ilford Galerie or Epson Premium Photo. I run the ICC profile from the Epson web site about three years ago, and print settings as recommended by Epson for their papers or Ilford for theirs. I never edit or preview photos on a "cold" monitor. I work in a generally lit to maybe half the monitor's brightness by GE Reveal bulbs and a slight amount of flourescent light leaking in from downstairs. I typically work in sRGB color space, though I've used AdobeRGB and ?Pro Photo RGB?. I have Photoshop set to use all of the appropriate profiles (embedded, monitor, and printer). -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
