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I'm new to this and want to calibrate my 22" Samsung monitor and my Sony laptop screen seperately. 

If I use the laptop to calibrate the attached Samsung monitor (via HDMI) will it also change the settings of the laptop screen. I'm assuming it will as the video settings are in the laptop of course. I also assume that I will then have to calibrate my laptop screen seperately with the Samsung monitor disconnected, and will end up with two different colour settings to use; and will have to reset the laptop colour settings to those for the Samsung Monitor when it is reconnected via the HDMI lead.

At present my Sony laptop resets the colour settings automatically when the minitor is connected via thye HDMI lead.

I need to do this to ensure that once I've processed my digital photos in Photoshop, that the prints are as close as possible to those on the screen.

Do I need to buy the Pro version of the software or will the Express version be ok?

Cheers.

Express only calibrates one screen on a system. To move between two screens, that would require some type of hack, or recalibrating each time you switched screens. Pro or Elite would calibrate both screens; if the video card in you computer offers Look Up Tables for both, and presents both to the OS in a way that allows it to assign unique profiles. 

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
Datacolor inc. 
cdtobie@...
www.datacolor.com

On May 24, 2013, at 5:45 PM, "kris.ingram@..." <kris.ingram@...> wrote:

> I'm new to this and want to calibrate my 22" Samsung monitor and my Sony laptop screen seperately. 
> 
> If I use the laptop to calibrate the attached Samsung monitor (via HDMI) will it also change the settings of the laptop screen. I'm assuming it will as the video settings are in the laptop of course. I also assume that I will then have to calibrate my laptop screen seperately with the Samsung monitor disconnected, and will end up with two different colour settings to use; and will have to reset the laptop colour settings to those for the Samsung Monitor when it is reconnected via the HDMI lead.
> 
> At present my Sony laptop resets the colour settings automatically when the minitor is connected via thye HDMI lead.
> 
> I need to do this to ensure that once I've processed my digital photos in Photoshop, that the prints are as close as possible to those on the screen.
> 
> Do I need to buy the Pro version of the software or will the Express version be ok?
> 
> Cheers.
> 
>