Missed this reply, sorry Marnie. Dark, no, but very overcast day, little bit of snow, so little ambient light coming ionto the room. I think someone mentioned it should be under normal work light, but not bright or glarey.
Should i do this at night under my 60 watt night light i use for "cave dwelling" i do. Dave On 2/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message dated 2/11/2007 8:29:12 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Monitor seems to have a very slight magenta feel to itbut it could be > that i'm looking at colours as they should be.I was having trouble > keping the unit stuck to the screen, so i rested my finger on the > back, ever so lightly. It didi slip down a tiny bit, but never left > the glass. Am i ok here.? > > > Dave > > ========== > Yes, no prob. The stickers don't matter, just the optical reader (or > whatever one calls it) on the inside in the middle. As long as the room you > were > doing it in was as completely dark as possible. > > I now have an LCD monitor, but when I was using my CRT (still have it), I > thought it left me with a slight red cast. It may be my eyes :-), but the > Adobe > color space seems to have more red in it than I personally like on screen. > (Sometimes I'd tone it down and sometimes I wouldn't.) > > Interestingly, I am getting the best prints by using NO color management > (with Adobe or Epson). The prints match my screen most closely, which is > what I > want. I use the Epson paper profiles, naturally, and in the advanced part of > the Epson printing dialog, I choose sRBG as input which matches it to the > screen input. Ergo, my prints are now coming out closer to the screen than > ever > before. This, BTW, is directly contradictory to what most people will tell > you. But good screen calibration first does help so that the input is as > correct as you can get it -- and getting the gamma right is important. > (Waiting to > see if G. or someone jumps all over me, but I never liked the look of the > Adobe color space when I was editing photos -- it has always looked too red to > me.) > > HTH, Marnie aka Doe (I have an extremely good color sense though, I > probably should mention that.) > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
