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Apr 5, 2006
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Recenlty our production studio moved to a new location. To my horror as entering the new set up, all the wall were painted a very bright lime green after continous demands for it to printed 128 grey to reduce color cast of the monitors. the lights are a bit yellowish too.( the glass) Oh well.

Is there any good online explaination on what color will be cast into the monitor? actual green ..it’s complimentary..how to fix it and also why it does this… or if i’m just being plain ridiculous.

Our studio has apple monitors of various age, calibrated weekly.

Any advice appreciated.
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Mike Russell
Apr 5, 2006
From: "PacMan"

Recenlty our production studio moved to a new location. To my horror as entering the new set up, all the wall were painted a very bright lime green after continous demands for it to printed 128 grey to reduce color cast of the monitors. the lights are a bit yellowish too.( the glass) Oh well.

Is there any good online explaination on what color will be cast into the monitor? actual green ..it’s complimentary..how to fix it and also why it does this… or if i’m just being plain ridiculous.

Our studio has apple monitors of various age, calibrated weekly.
Any advice appreciated.

Someone saved money on the paint. Hard to say how bad it will be, but someone should be working the budget for a repaint over the weekend. The effect will be minimal if you work by the numbers, but if you rely on your eyes alone you will be even more vulnerable to systematic color casts in your final result.

If the walls take up much of your field of view, a properly calibrated monitor will appear magenta, and this will tend to make your final images somewhat green. If this appears to be a serious problem, invest in a few rolls of art paper and cover the walls.

If the walls are not that visible from your cubie, the lights will probably be more of a problem than the walls, and your final images will take on a yellowish cast.

Cheap solution – turn out the lights and fix both problems at once.

PS – cross posting this would have been good to save having two parallel threads.
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noone
Apr 6, 2006
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Recenlty our production studio moved to a new location. To my horror as entering the new set up, all the wall were painted a very bright lime green after continous demands for it to printed 128 grey to reduce color cast of the monitors. the lights are a bit yellowish too.( the glass) Oh well.

Is there any good online explaination on what color will be cast into the monitor? actual green ..it’s complimentary..how to fix it and also why it does this… or if i’m just being plain ridiculous.
Our studio has apple monitors of various age, calibrated weekly.
Any advice appreciated.
—
Cheers
PacMan

Mike has some good ideas. One thing that I would do is use a 4-color meter, catch the lighting and the reflection from the wall and see just what color you are getting. The Minolta Digital 4-color has a filter conversion chart on the back that will tell you what the correction factor is.

If you can, light your work area with a balanced light source, and do turn off the overheads.

A short-term solution might be to build a 128 gray surround for your monitor with a hood to cut out the overhead sources.

Hunt

PS were it my studio, someone would be re-painting

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PacMan
Apr 6, 2006
On 2006-04-05 15:34:41 -0300, PacMan said:

Recenlty our production studio moved to a new location. To my horror as entering the new set up, all the wall were painted a very bright lime green after continous demands for it to printed 128 grey to reduce color cast of the monitors. the lights are a bit yellowish too.( the glass) Oh well.

Is there any good online explaination on what color will be cast into the monitor? actual green ..it’s complimentary..how to fix it and also why it does this… or if i’m just being plain ridiculous.
Our studio has apple monitors of various age, calibrated weekly.
Any advice appreciated.

thanks guys..feel better already
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