Monitor calibration

[leon]

Hi Guys, could some one tell me if calibrating a CRT Monitor or a New LCD Monitor is the same, using Adobe Gamma.

Last night I followed the instructions from the book by R Scott Ireland, (Photoshop Astronomy) and it all went horribly wrong to the point that I had to do a System Restore to bring the computer back to it's original state.

Is the method of calibration different for either monitor, your help would be appreciated.

My Monitor is a dell, with a resolution of 1680x 1050, and when making the adjusting the boxes in Adobe Gamma there seems little change as the screen seems to bright, and reducing the brightness dosn't help much as the procedure calls for high settings

leon

[TheDecepticon]

Hi Leon! Not sure if you remember or not but I used to have a CRT but have now traded up to a 23" wide screen Samsung. Very nice. The monitor actually came with a software disc on which were the drivers and 2 bits of software to calibrate the monitor. I haven't used Adobe Gamma on this monitor, it doesn't seem to need it after running the supplied software. Maybe that guys info doesn't apply to LCD screens.

[leon]

Yea mate that is what i was thinking as well, the monitor seems quite good with out adjustments in Adobe, but I just wanted to make sure.

As I said earlier when I tried to calibrate with Adobe, it went horribly wrong, thanks for your reply.

Leon

[turbo_pascale (Rob)]

Have a look at this website to get a lot of info on monitor calibration.

http://www.imagescience.com.au/

I purchased their Spyder 3 Pro Suite (for monitor and printer calibration), and I have configured my 2 x Sony G520 21" CRTs and my 24" LCD all on the same machine, and the colour match is great across all of them. Sure, this is over the top compared to Adobe Gamma.

Yes, pricey solution, but then again, just like high quality glass, what's the point of looking at a bad monitor?

There is a lot of good reading on that site, and will point you in the right direction at various price points.

Turbo

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

Hi Leon,

The main thing you possibly want is the ICC profile driver for each of your monitors, this will tell each monitor how to correctly display each colour palette so you should see little difference between working with each.

You install these under Colour Management in you display settings.

[leon]

Thanks Rob and Trevor, I have now done much research on the subject and have printed a test page which will be sent off to Imagescience, where they will supply a printer profile, and also I have set up PS2 properly as suggested by Scott Irelands book Photoshop Astronomy.

Hopefully this will make for a more controlled colour management.

Leon