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 s

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

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 Ma

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

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.

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 > >

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 (ther

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 Kozicki

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: h

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 updat

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" Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:53 PM Subject: Re: Monitor Calibration - help wan