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12-16-2008, 05:47 PM
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Haters & Trolls SUCK!
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Monitor Color Calibration - Who Does It?
Sitting down today to color calibrate my new Mac Displays and wondered how many of you creative people use color corrected monitors? I wouldn't color correct any pics or videos without making sure I had a color corrected monitor. Why you ask? Well, because monitors are known to drift. They change colors, contrast and gamma over time. Your monitor does not look the same as it did when you first bought it but since your eyes automatically adjust for the changes, you might never know this.
I color profile my monitors on the 1st of each month. That way, should my monitors drift in any way, I can easily bring them back to a known standard. This keeps my color, contrast and gamma consistent over time. If you create pictures, video or graphics for web use, you should seriously consider using a color profiled monitor  |
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12-16-2008, 05:49 PM
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Do Fun Shit.
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I've obsessively color corrected all of my monitors since High School...
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12-16-2008, 05:51 PM
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Don't forget that things like glasses lenses yellowing can also throw things out a little. White and grey shades were starting to look sandy before I replaced my frames and lenses recently.
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12-16-2008, 05:54 PM
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So Fucking Banned
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I calibrate every two weeks with a Pantone Huey. Its totally necessary to have a good baseline. I have had to rescan a few sets because they looked great until I recalibrated
 Color is tricky because everything can look great but one small range of color can be off. Like say the skin tones are really too red. Everything else can be perfect. Fucking vista was a bitch to get in sync with all the different apps too. Pics would look perfect in Photoshop and whacked in Lightroom. Solved the problem but it took some figuring out. Guess you don't have that problem now Dean  |
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12-16-2008, 06:03 PM
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in a van by the river
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How do you calibrate them? One of those little deals you stick on the screen? I have 2 dell lcd's on my PC and I can't get them both to show the same colors.
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12-16-2008, 06:12 PM
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I do it but always back off quite a bit from the final custom set. Reason being, 95% of people looking at my photography have not done this and they are the end users.
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