monitor calibration
2002-04-13 by smichener
Can someone walk me through monitor calibration. . . and is that the way to get close to what you see is what you get? Thanks so much.
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monitor calibration
Re: monitor calibration
2002-04-13 by wilfred71118
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "smichener" <smichener@y...> wrote: > Can someone walk me through monitor calibration. . . and is that the > way to get close to what you see is what you get? Thanks so much. > If you don't intend to invest in a monitor spider you best way is to go to the control panel and open up Adobe Gamma. Follow the steps carefully. It works very well. The problem I had was that everytime I used it, I couldn't get what I had the first time. That is the nature of any method that rely on human site and color preseption. An electronic device will read the same every time. Calibrating the monitor is the first and necessary step in color management, but alone is not all that is necessary to get what you see on the monitor. Try Adobe Gamma, then print using the same settings you have been and see if it makes any difference.
Re: [Digital BW] Re: monitor calibration
2002-04-13 by Pics4U@en.com
A trick I learned a long time ago when trying to do color matching like that was to squint so the object goes almost blurry. Also, the natural tendancy is to get really close to see it. In reality, just the opposite is true. Stay back several feet then squint. It really helps make it easier to see the variances in tone. I was lucky and got Photoshop 5 and 5.5 right on the money. When I upgraded to 6 and 6.01, I have never been able to get it quite right again. The auto level and auto contrast commands used to hit my brightness and contrast curves right on too but something has changed with 6.x that I can't seem to fix. Now I spend a lot of time manually tweaking. Greg
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> > If you don't intend to invest in a monitor spider you best way is > to go to the control panel and open up Adobe Gamma. Follow the steps > carefully. It works very well. The problem I had was that everytime I > used it, I couldn't get what I had the first time. That is the nature > of any method that rely on human site and color preseption. An > electronic device will read the same every time. Calibrating the > monitor is the first and necessary step in color management, but alone > is not all that is necessary to get what you see on the monitor. Try > Adobe Gamma, then print using the same settings you have been and see > if it makes any difference.
monitor calibration
2004-01-27 by marcsien77
Hi everyone. I am using a mac LCD display with Roy's QTR. What gamma amd K settings should I select when calibrating my monitor to get the best results for BW with this setup? Thanks for help. Marc.
Re: [Digital BW] monitor calibration
2004-01-27 by Steve Kale
I use Gamma 2.2, and 6500 but note that QTR by itself is not WYSIWYG in the same way that working with colorsync is in the colour domain. For accurate soft-proofing you need to adopt the procedures described in the following thread: [Digital BW] New icc based Soft-proof profiles
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From: "marcsien77" <marcsien77@...> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 06:34:44 -0000 To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Digital BW] monitor calibration Hi everyone. I am using a mac LCD display with Roy's QTR. What gamma amd K settings should I select when calibrating my monitor to get the best results for BW with this setup? Thanks for help. Marc. Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other resources as they are often being updated. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you wish to unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by visiting this same page. Please follow these basic guidelines: - As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep them short. - Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or flames. Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be removed from the membership without notice. - Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of digital B&W printing. Users who persistently make off-topic posts may be removed from the membership. - By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group rules and guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions of the group Owner and Moderators. See Group Topic, Rules and Guidelines in the Files section: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/ BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE OWNER AND MODERATORS OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE OWNER AND MODERATORS OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/SIG=12chebmla/M=267637.4116732.5333197.1261774/D=egrou pweb/S=1705019182:HM/EXP=1075271705/A=1945637/R=0/*http://www.netflix.com/De fault?mqso=60178397&partid=4116732> Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: * http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/ * * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: * DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com?subject=Uns ubscribe> * * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: monitor calibration
2004-01-28 by px3n120x
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "marcsien77" <marcsien77@y...> wrote: > Hi everyone. I am using a mac LCD display with Roy's QTR. What > gamma amd K settings should I select when calibrating my monitor to > get the best results for BW with this setup? Thanks for help. Marc. Here's how I do it. Calibrate the display so that the 21 stepwedge looks good, you see all gradations (I use gamma 1.8). Adjust QTR curves so that the printed stepwedge looks as close as possible to what I see on the screen (grayscale image). This needs to be done for each paper you are gonna use. I use UT inks toned, therefore I created an action which converts the image to RGB and applies a curve which renders the toner color (again, adjusted visually, no fancy tools). Can not claim that the results are 100% accurate but they are close enough for me to get a good idea of what will be printed from what I see on the screen. Usually the print shows a lot more detail in tonalities then the monitor. Andu
monitor calibration
2007-04-09 by deandadin
for a mac do I set the white point at 1.8 or 2.2. Thanks Steve
monitor calibration
2007-04-09 by deandadin
I ment to say target gamma setting re the 1.8 and 2.2 setting. Thanks Steve