Adobe Gamma monitor calibration

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My View
Jan 8, 2005
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Hi All

I use PS CS and want to calibrate my monitor using Adobe Gamma (as requested by my photo lab).
Any recommendations/suggestions before I start?

I had a first try at it yesterday but gave up after one of the first ‘wizard’ screen said to "set contrast conrrol to its highest setting". This totally blew the screen colour out and any subsequent brightness settings made little difference.

Why would you want the contrast setting to be maximum?

I have a 17" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 730 with GeForce4 Ti 4200 128Mb graphics card.

regards

PeterH

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mono
Jan 8, 2005
I use PS CS and want to calibrate my monitor using Adobe Gamma (as
requested
by my photo lab).
Any recommendations/suggestions before I start?

Do it in subdued lighting without any reflections or side lighting on your screen. Set your desktop appearance to a neutral grey (128 128 128) and close any open windows. Not fenestrations, applications.

I had a first try at it yesterday but gave up after one of the first ‘wizard’ screen said to "set contrast conrrol to its highest
setting".
This totally blew the screen colour out and any subsequent brightness

settings made little difference.

See it through to the end. Just how far off max contrast was your monitor to start with? Only adjust the brightness with reference to the small grey box inside the bigger black box NOT to get some colour correction on the monitor generally. Don’t skip, or rush, or complete any stages with a preconceived result in mind, i.e. don’t fake any stages. Set the gamma using the 3 colour setting (uncheck the single gamma only box). Squint at the settings to check for them blending one into the other, possibly from a greater distance from the monitor than you would usually. Set your gamma to the appropriate default for Windows or Mac. Use 6500k for your white point, chances are the monitor is at 9300k to start. Use the measure option to check this and take some time deciding which shade of grey is neutral with luck it’ll tell you you’ve selected 6500k.

You’ll get a chance to view the before and after and to save your settings at the end or to ditch the lot and make no change so it’s worth doing it all the way through. It’ll probably look a lot different to how it was but your eyes and brain will accomodate that quickly enough. A calibrated monitor that looks a bit off initially is probably better than an uncalibrated monitor you’ve come to think of as normal. If it works for you don’t forget to recalibrate every month or so as your monitor will probably drift out of calibration, use the same ambient conditions as the first time.
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Husky
Jan 8, 2005
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 07:53:31 GMT, "My View" <reply to > wrote:

http://members.toast.net/cbminfo/all_sites/colorblind.html I use this page all the time for gamma settings.

Hi All

I use PS CS and want to calibrate my monitor using Adobe Gamma (as requested by my photo lab).
Any recommendations/suggestions before I start?

I had a first try at it yesterday but gave up after one of the first ‘wizard’ screen said to "set contrast conrrol to its highest setting". This totally blew the screen colour out and any subsequent brightness settings made little difference.

Why would you want the contrast setting to be maximum?

I have a 17" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 730 with GeForce4 Ti 4200 128Mb graphics card.

regards

PeterH


more pix @ http://members.toast.net/cbminfo/index.html
DL
Donald Link
Jan 9, 2005
For its time the monitor was a very good monitor but it is getting a little old. With the prices of 19 and 21 inch monitors CRTs their is a lot to be said to looking for upgrading. I have found that if you go to Ebay you can pick up a very, very good 21 from a local seller for around a 100 dollars and picking it up. You ought to check.

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 07:53:31 GMT, "My View" <reply to
wrote:

Hi All

I use PS CS and want to calibrate my monitor using Adobe Gamma (as requested by my photo lab).
Any recommendations/suggestions before I start?

I had a first try at it yesterday but gave up after one of the first ‘wizard’ screen said to "set contrast conrrol to its highest setting". This totally blew the screen colour out and any subsequent brightness settings made little difference.

Why would you want the contrast setting to be maximum?

I have a 17" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 730 with GeForce4 Ti 4200 128Mb graphics card.

regards

PeterH
MJ
Monty Jake Monty
Jan 9, 2005
I use a Mitsubishi Diamond Plus with the contrast set all the way up as instructed in Adobe Gamma. It looks perfect. Something undesirable is going on with your system or hardware.

Steve

— faith \’fath\ n : firm belief in something for which there is no proof. Webster’s Dictionary

From: Donald Link
Organization: EarthLink Inc. — http://www.EarthLink.net Newsgroups: alt.graphics.photoshop
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 03:59:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Adobe Gamma monitor calibration

For its time the monitor was a very good monitor but it is getting a little old. With the prices of 19 and 21 inch monitors CRTs their is a lot to be said to looking for upgrading. I have found that if you go to Ebay you can pick up a very, very good 21 from a local seller for around a 100 dollars and picking it up. You ought to check.
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 07:53:31 GMT, "My View" <reply to
wrote:

Hi All

I use PS CS and want to calibrate my monitor using Adobe Gamma (as requested by my photo lab).
Any recommendations/suggestions before I start?

I had a first try at it yesterday but gave up after one of the first ‘wizard’ screen said to "set contrast conrrol to its highest setting". This totally blew the screen colour out and any subsequent brightness settings made little difference.

Why would you want the contrast setting to be maximum?

I have a 17" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 730 with GeForce4 Ti 4200 128Mb graphics card.

regards

PeterH
MV
My View
Jan 9, 2005
I went back in and realised I was adjusting the extra settings within the graphics card options and not the control buttons on the front of the monitor itself.

The setting on the monitor was in fact set to MAX contrast and all is well now.

thanks

PeterH

"Monty Jake Monty" wrote in message
I use a Mitsubishi Diamond Plus with the contrast set all the way up as instructed in Adobe Gamma. It looks perfect. Something undesirable is going on with your system or hardware.

Steve

— faith \’fath\ n : firm belief in something for which there is no proof.
Webster’s Dictionary

From: Donald Link
Organization: EarthLink Inc. — http://www.EarthLink.net Newsgroups: alt.graphics.photoshop
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 03:59:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Adobe Gamma monitor calibration

For its time the monitor was a very good monitor but it is getting a little old. With the prices of 19 and 21 inch monitors CRTs their is a lot to be said to looking for upgrading. I have found that if you go to Ebay you can pick up a very, very good 21 from a local seller for around a 100 dollars and picking it up. You ought to check.
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 07:53:31 GMT, "My View" <reply to
wrote:

Hi All

I use PS CS and want to calibrate my monitor using Adobe Gamma (as requested
by my photo lab).
Any recommendations/suggestions before I start?

I had a first try at it yesterday but gave up after one of the first ‘wizard’ screen said to "set contrast conrrol to its highest setting". This totally blew the screen colour out and any subsequent brightness settings made little difference.

Why would you want the contrast setting to be maximum?

I have a 17" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 730 with GeForce4 Ti 4200 128Mb graphics
card.

regards

PeterH

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