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Monitor Calibration Odd Behavior

Postby momoffduty » Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:11 pm

I had to recalibrate my monitor with the new build and had to purchase a calibrator for W7. Plugged in the Spyder and this is what popped up! Think I should return it? ;)
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Re: Monitor Calibration Odd Behavior

Postby Steve Grisetti » Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:31 pm

Interesting. It's either late for Halloween or early for April Fool's Day, Cheryl!
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Re: Monitor Calibration Odd Behavior

Postby Bob » Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:03 pm

Everything's going touch these days...

Just be sure to follow what it says or your calibration may be off. ;)
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Re: Monitor Calibration Odd Behavior

Postby momoffduty » Mon Dec 10, 2012 5:18 pm

Bob wrote:Just be sure to follow what it says or your calibration may be off. ;)


Well, it spelled something out about a Mayan cliff....didn't catch it all. :conf:
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Re: Monitor Calibration Odd Behavior

Postby Dave McElderry » Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:06 pm

I'm at a loss for words. Just plain foundumbded. :conf:
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Re: Monitor Calibration Odd Behavior

Postby Gerlinde » Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:40 am

Cheryl, could your new computer be haunted? :eek:
I also need to calibrate my monitors, they are quite different. I have on ancient Spyder2 and am reluctant to buy a new one. I did get it actually to work on my Win 7 64-bit laptop and got a good match with the external monitor.
But when I try it on the new computer under Win 8,it works for one monitor, but won't let me do the second monitor. I have to play around with it some more before I break down and by a more up to date calibrator.
But seeing your result, I'm not sure I will buy another Spyder :-k
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Re: Monitor Calibration Odd Behavior

Postby momoffduty » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:06 am

Gerlinde, I tried to use my old Monaco X-rite on the W7 machine. Found a work around, but when I tried to manually install the driver got the dreaded blue screen. Gave up and bought the Spyder Pro 4.

After having a monitor calibrated it is hard to work on an uncalibrated one. Guess you don't miss something you never used until you use it. I am happy with the Spyder, but my monitor doesn't have the option to set kelvin point so I had to try different ambient room light to get a good target. Hopefully I did it correctly.
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Re: Monitor Calibration Odd Behavior

Postby Gerlinde » Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:00 am

Hopefully I did it correctly.
The easiest way to find out, Cheryl, print a photo and see if it is pretty close to what you see on your monitor.

Let Photoshop manage the colors and turn off color management in your printer. You also have to choose the same paper profile that you are printing on for an accurate preview. But you probably know all that already :gl:
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Re: Monitor Calibration Odd Behavior

Postby momoffduty » Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:41 pm

Thanks Gerlinde, I did know and I didn't know at the same time. :lol: Things have been eluding me lately. I gave up a long time ago to let PS manage the colors. I let the printer manage. But, good idea on a test print. I do have a few photos I am working on now that will get sent out to print at Walgreeens. Thanks for the refresher!
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