Digital BW, The Print

Anthony,

With a CRT, you have the ability to adjust contrast, brightness, color 
temp, etc, using analog controls on the front of the monitor.  These 
are true analog adjustments and it makes sense to do these adjustments 
there, so the profiling software can write smaller adjustments to your 
video lookup table (VLUT).  This gives the best profile for a CRT.

On an LCD, there is really only one analog adjustment...the brightness 
of the backlight.  Even though the controls on the front panel of the 
LCD allow you to adjust contrast, color, etc, these are being passed 
directly to your video card anyway, so you are really making 
adjustments to the VLUT when you adjust these settings on your LCD.  
Most profiling software packages know this and disable all controls on 
the monitor except the the brightness control.  Since all these 
adjustments will be sent to the VLUT anyway, it makes no difference.  

I use Gretag Profilemaker 5, and I just set the desired color temp, 
gamma and luminance in the software before profiling.  Then I adjust 
the brightness on the monitor and skip the rest.  The profiling 
software makes adjustments to the VLUT to give the desired settings.  

Lou

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony S. Tubbs" 
<astubbs@o...> wrote:
> Recently on one of the groups I belong too ask about making 
adjustments 
> with a LCD montor hook up to DVI, I missed the answer cause I too at 
the 
> time could not understand why I had no adjustments using the OSD.  
> Looking around the web site of the mfg. I found the answer to the 
> question, it had related to buying like a Eye One or any other 
profiling 
> software-hardware device.  Using windows use the advance mode and in 
> there you will see with your graphics card color settings where you 
can 
> make profiles for the LCD monitor.  If it was'nt this group , I am 
sorry 
> if this is common knowdgle.  I did a search.     Anthony