David,
Thanks for the tip. I guess I'm going to have to hurry along with
this calibration thing.
Bruce
Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 9:53:54 PM, you wrote:
DAM> Bruce Dayton wrote:
>> I'm wondering if there are any quick and dirty places to look to just
>> spot check for general color cast before I get into full/real
>> calibration?
DAM> Compared to 9300K, which is the usual setting for monitors, 6500K does
DAM> look very yellow; 5500K even more so. 6500K is recommended as this is
DAM> the white point for both the sRGB and Adobe RGB working colour spaces.
DAM> At least one calibration package (OptiCal, which you can get bundled with
DAM> the Spyder) allows you to do this as a pre-calibration step before
DAM> calibrating and profiling. You adjust the R/G/B controls on your screen
DAM> until both the colour temperature and luminance are correct. After that
DAM> you proceed through the actual calibration and profiling steps.
DAM> Cheers,
DAM> - Dave
DAM> http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
