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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Bonk on July 22, 2006, 06:04:21 am

Title: Monitor Calibration
Post by: Bonk on July 22, 2006, 06:04:21 am

More research... ;)

Have you ever calibrated your monitor or recalibrated it when changing it? Most of the modeling gang probably have, but I wonder about other folks.

I use the Adobe Gamma wizard approach myself and find it makes a significant difference to display quality. Though any fullscreen directx or opengl apps will kill the gamma loader's settings and I need to rerun it after exiting the fullscreen app before woking with photos or any web color work...

Some information on the subject and utilities:

http://epaperpress.com/monitorcal/index.html
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/monitor_calibration.htm
http://www.wolfkettler.co.uk/help/calibrate.html
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/colorcalibration/a/cal_monitor.htm
http://www.jasc.com/support/kb/articles/monitor.asp
http://www.photofriday.com/calibrate.php
http://www.ephotozine.com/techniques/viewtechnique.cfm?recid=12
http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm
http://www.bryce-alive.net/calibrate/
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/321608.html
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/07/2244242
http://www.viewsonic.com/support/calibration.htm
http://www.hex2bit.com/products/product_mcw.asp
http://www.praxisoft.com/pages/products.wiziwyg.html
http://www.easyrgb.com/easyrgbpc.html

A demo of photoshop should provide you the opportunity to calibrate with Adobe Gamma...
Otherwise, most video drivers have a gamma adjustment in their settings. In general, maximise contrast and minimise brightness with the monitor controls first

If you have never calibrated your monitor you will probably notice a significant difference, particularly with the Dynaverse.Net forums default theme.

Thoughts? Experiences? Please post here!

Title: Re: Monitor Calibration
Post by: Tus-XC on July 23, 2006, 10:41:01 pm

I use the adobe gamma thing myself, worked wonders :)

Title: Re: Monitor Calibration
Post by: FCM_SFHQ_XC on July 25, 2006, 11:32:14 am

Same here :)

Title: Re: Monitor Calibration
Post by: Commander Maxillius on July 28, 2006, 12:37:02 am

My mac has a built-in gamma adjuster that (as far as I can tell) doesn't need adjusting much.