NEAUTRAL GRAY

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nvslater
Mar 6, 2004
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Trying to calibrate my wacom cintiq.Usibg MonacoEZ Color and colorsink. I am supposed to start with a neautral gray desktop, but I don’t know how to find neutral gray, or how to put it on my desktop.

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chadda
Mar 6, 2004
Start by seeking ‘neutral’, first.
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nvslater
Mar 6, 2004
And how would I do that? I was hoping for a value to insert somewhere.
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Mac_McDougald
Mar 6, 2004
Previous poster was making joke of your spelling.

Well, any equal values of RGB = "neutral" gray, as far as grayscale, 1 being black and 255 being white. Everything inbetween are shades of gray.

Higher the values the lighter the gray.

192 for each is a popular all around background color, and the default often recommended for use as Photoshop work area, if that’s any help.

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nvslater
Mar 6, 2004
Monaco says; "set desktop pattern to a light gray or as close to neutral as possible." Whatever that is. And how do I get my desktop to display it? I have NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 video card, there are sliders there for gamma;contrast;brightness;Digital Vibrance and I can select red;green;blue. How I can make that a neutral gray is beyond me
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Mac_McDougald
Mar 6, 2004
Try 192 for each of RGB.

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nvslater
Mar 6, 2004
Where do I insert those values?
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Jay Jhabrix
Mar 6, 2004
nvslater…

why not try the GeForce forums on their website…. mmm.. they don’t seem to have a forum there…

ok… try this:

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http://forum.msi.com.tw/board.php?boardid=9&sid=f60b2e70 faf7d1a44cb25d22d1a1 0d68 >

It’s a link to the MSI VGA card forums… you need to register to post (free) but you might get some help there? Alternatively, doesn’t Monaco have a user forum?

Cheers…

JJ
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Mick_Murphy
Mar 6, 2004
I don’t think this is really critical but here’s a way. Right click your desktop, go to the desktop tab and then click on the drop down color picker, the third color along is 192, 192, 192 on my classic WinXP at least. If not choose other and a Windows color picker will allow you to input numbers.
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nvslater
Mar 6, 2004
Color management is becoming a nightmare for me. The very first step is to set the desktop color, the final results are controlled by it. If I don’t like the results or need to replace them, I need to know what I had.
You got a good idea, but there are also settins for Hue;Sat and Lum, what values would be entered there?
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Mick_Murphy
Mar 6, 2004
Don’t get hung up on this point. HSL will update automatically according to changes you make in RGB.
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Gary_Hummell
Mar 6, 2004
Simply open a new image in PS, screen size 1024×768 pixels. Fill with a neutral color, like 192,192,192 RGB. Save as a BMP, right click and "save as desk top background". The reason for the neutral desktop is to reduce the chance of glass reflections adversely affecting the colorimeter view. No direct measurements are made of the desk top.

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nvslater
Mar 6, 2004
Ok thank you. I think I understand now.

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