Re: Monitor Calibration - help wanted

2007-01-16 Thread John Coyle
Thanks Rob - I'll look at that too. John Coyle Brisbane, Australia - Original Message - From: Digital Image Studio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:53 PM Subject: Re: Monitor Calibration - help wanted On 13/01/07, John Coyle

Re: Monitor Calibration - help wanted

2007-01-14 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 13/01/07, John Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob, thanks for suggesting the Registry - I'm comfortable using RegEdit, so I'll have a wander through there too. There is nothing in my startup settings that would appear to affect only Adobe's colour rendering. Fair enough, the LUT update

Re: Monitor Calibration - help wanted

2007-01-12 Thread Brian Walters
John Don't know if this will help but I find both the foillowing links useful, particularly the gamma charts in the first link. http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western

Re: Monitor Calibration - help wanted

2007-01-12 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 12/01/07, John Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently did a recalibration of my desktop monitor: can't remember nor find the program I used to do it, and now the results are not acceptable (in fact, I'm getting on-screen displays that look OK in Photoshop CS, but are quite different in

Re: Monitor Calibration - help wanted

2007-01-12 Thread Bronek Kozicki
Brian Walters wrote: John Don't know if this will help but I find both the foillowing links useful, particularly the gamma charts in the first link. http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm but pls. remeber to use gamma 2.2 , as this is the standard. Gamma 1.8 is used only by old Macs

Re: Monitor Calibration - help wanted

2007-01-12 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Bronek Kozicki wrote: Brian Walters wrote: John Don't know if this will help but I find both the foillowing links useful, particularly the gamma charts in the first link. http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm but pls. remeber to use gamma 2.2 , as this

Re: Monitor Calibration - help wanted

2007-01-12 Thread keith_w
Bronek Kozicki wrote: Brian Walters wrote: John Don't know if this will help but I find both the foillowing links useful, particularly the gamma charts in the first link. http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm but pls. remeber to use gamma 2.2 , as this is the standard. For whom? For

Re: Monitor Calibration - help wanted

2007-01-12 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 13/01/07, keith_w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bronek Kozicki wrote: Brian Walters wrote: John Don't know if this will help but I find both the foillowing links useful, particularly the gamma charts in the first link. http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm but pls. remeber to

Re: Monitor Calibration - help wanted

2007-01-12 Thread Bronek Kozicki
keith_w wrote: but pls. remeber to use gamma 2.2 , as this is the standard. For whom? For what? good question. You will find answer in Color Management by Bruce Fraser, Chris Murphy, Fred Bunting. In my (2nd) edition it is in chapter 6 . Needless to say, gamma 2.2 is recommended (there)

Re: Monitor Calibration - help wanted

2007-01-12 Thread Paul Stenquist
I run Gamma 2.2 on my Mac with Apple cinema display. The monitor is calibrated with a Spyder 2. My new Epson R2400 duplicates the screen image flawlessly as did my previous Epson 2200. I don't see that there's anything to be gained using G 1.8. Paul On Jan 12, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Bronek

Re: Monitor Calibration - help wanted

2007-01-12 Thread John Coyle
Thanks to all who responded, and I'll have some fun next week checking out all the suggestions (got to go to a christening tomorrow...). Brian, I downloaded one of the recommended test prints from digitaldog, thanks for the link, and it looks perfect on my monitor in Vueprint and in Photoshop:

Monitor Calibration - help wanted

2007-01-11 Thread John Coyle
I recently did a recalibration of my desktop monitor: can't remember nor find the program I used to do it, and now the results are not acceptable (in fact, I'm getting on-screen displays that look OK in Photoshop CS, but are quite different in other viewers, and in print). I've spent some time