Shangara writes ... > At precisely 22/11/02 11:17 pm, the inimitable Geoff Dor� posted to the > friendliest listserv this side of Alpha Centuri: > > > 'Enable Monitor Compensation' is unchecked as was advised by Jeff Schewe > > in his downloadable PDF 'Working In Photoshop' (5.0) - although I am > > beginning to discover that he does have his particular workflow - what > > is the consensus on 'Enable Monitor Compensation' - anyone? > > Geoff - 'Enable Monitor Compensation' should definitely be checked. > Otherwise, you will just end up working in you monitor space. > > >> The "cold-ness" you mention may be because you haven't enabled monitor > >> compensation ... try it. > > > > I will - would welcome comments from others about this > > Try ticking the compensation box first and if you still get a > blue cast then your monitor calibration/characterisation > is probably off. Edit the monitor profile again by using > the many tools mentioned here regularly. > If it still has a blue cast, your monitor's seen better days.
Rather than toss your monitor based solely on a blue cast from scanned RGB, you should try "reference images" ... e.g., the Photodisc target, or some of the many wwwsites which would offer some type of color qualification. Even my site, which for the most part is grayscale/neutral, should show no color bias. It is the case however, that all color calibration methods (including Adobe RGB) should make your monitor color neutral. cheerios ... shAf :o) Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland www.micro-investigations.com (in progress) =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
