Remember you have to have your monitor and printer match unless all you are interested in is web images. There are always trade offs. You have to set up the system to give the best overall results biased toward you own work. Despite what people seem to think you can not set up each part of the system separately. Color profiles help, but you still have to tweak things yourself. I lean to matching the print as closely as possible as you can not tell how someone looking at your web photos will have his system setup.
Now to get into things a little deeper, usually you set your monitor for highest contrast and minimum brightness, then use the setting in your video drivers to calibrate the image on the monitor (or you can use something like Adobe Gamma which does the same thing in a temporary way). For the very best calibration you usually have to go back and forth between the video card setting and the monitor settings a few times. Let me make that last paragraph simpler. You calibrate your monitor by adjusting your video card settings. If you are using Windows you will find those adjustments in Control-Panel/Display/Settings/Advanced. Walter Hamler wrote: > OK, I just spent an hour calibrating with the Spyder II setup. It was > pretty foolproof BUT, my results are really no better. > My problem is that when I used the monitor controls to try to make the > screen match a good print, I cannot get the intensity level low > enough. This is a 17" Compaq crt. Now, after the calibration routine, > the screen is much flatter and a little brighter, but a print made > from settings that look good on the screen are WAY too dark on a > print. The colors are great, well saturated, but to get the right > density you have to view the print under a very bright light or use > transmitted light, which makes the shadows/black suck! > Do I need to shoot this monitor! :-) > > Walt > > On 10/31/07, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I tend to prefer directly adjusting the video card to using Adobe Gamma, >> however >> some video cards do not seem to have that capability. Most likely because the >> driver is crippled. >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> In a message dated 10/31/2007 7:22:44 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>> When my house took the lightening strike a few months back my monitor >>> was destroyed. I also lost the ethernet card portion of the >>> motherboard,however I put a new card in a slot and bought a new >>> monitor. >>> My prints were suddenly too dark with the new monitor so I adjusted >>> the brightness/contrast controls and have managed to get by. However, >>> dumb me, I just realized that the Adobe Gamma folder that was in the >>> Control Panel is no longer there!!! How do I get it back??? I tried >>> reloading PSE 5.0 but no difference, still missing. >>> Where does that program come from?? >>> >>> Walt >>> >>> =========== >>> Just checked on Adobe users' forum. Adobe Gamma is NOT installed >>> automatically with E5, as it was previously. But it's still on the disc, >>> in the >>> "goodies" folder. Funny, didn't know that. >>> >>> HTH, Marnie aka Doe :-) >>> >>> --------------------------------------------- >>> Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com >>> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
