Calibrate Monitor

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Medea
Jul 4, 2008
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I have a problem. I recently had a new video card installed. All colors look correct until I open Photoshop CS2. The phots are much too dark, but othrwise the colors look correct. I have tried to read about calibrating my monitor, but it all seems greek to me. I am a rank amateur. I can do snaps & photos, but that is all. Is there a simple way to correct my photoshop without messing up everything else?
Thank you for any help. I am getting desperate.
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TK
Toobi-Won Kenobi
Jul 4, 2008
"Medea" wrote in message
I have a problem. I recently had a new video card installed. All colors look correct until I open Photoshop CS2. The phots are much too dark, but othrwise the colors look correct. I have tried to read about calibrating my monitor, but it all seems greek to me. I am a rank amateur. I can do snaps & photos, but that is all. Is there a simple way to correct my photoshop without messing up everything else?
Thank you for any help. I am getting desperate.

"Correcting" your monitor for Photoshop will not mess up everything else. Photoshop is a colour managed application, the others are not. It will use the monitor profile provided/you provide.
How do the images look when you print them? Too light?
What kind of monitor CRT or LCD?
Have you got the latest drivers for your card? Check with the manufacturers website.
If CRT you can calibrate it with AdobeGamma which ships with CS2, you will find it in Control Panel.
It will not work with LCDs.
If you are serious about working with PS a grounding in colour management is required reading.
It is important that the colours you see on screen appear in print. Take a look at the following and other pages in the article, they are written in English BTW 😉
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps8_colour/ps8_2.htm
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

TWK
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gowanoh
Jul 5, 2008
Calibration is not done for viewing, it is done for printing. Calibrating for printing with Photoshop is not the same as trying to calibrate an HDTV for "accurate" viewing colors.
Presuming you have the usual mid to low level LCD most of us are cursed with, make sure the panel is set to its native resolution and default brightness and contrast settings. Those brightness and contrast settings are often the 50% settings. You have to learn how to use the controls on the monitor. If your panel has no controls it is probably just not usable for Photoshop.
If you are serious you should get a calibration device. In my humble experience most LCD panels can readily be calibrated for reasonably accurate color printing but not prints with accurate brightness/contrast. Again, in my humble experience, I find this due to the overbrightness of LCD panels and changes in the brightness of the panel when, inevitably, viewed off axis which the user is not aware of because of the way your brain is wired. However there are workarounds once you understand the basics of color management and how to make image adjustments in Photoshop. So I would not spend a lot of money on a calibration device. I do not think a sub $100 Huey does any worse of a job than a more advanced Spyder device for the LCD panels that most people have to use.
TK
Toobi-Won Kenobi
Jul 5, 2008
"saycheez" wrote in message
Calibration is not done for viewing, it is done for printing. Calibrating
Calibration is not done for viewing, it is done for printing."

So, there’s me been wasting my time for the last 15 years! It’s OK then that the blue your screen shows you is actually pink when printed?
How would you know which piece of hardware was incorrect? What would yo base your perception on. screen or print?
You calibrate both monitor and printer for correct colour reproduction. The OP was was asking for help with what he saw on his monitor, not what he saw in print.
The links I provided cover all aspects of PS colour management, mointor and printer.
TWK

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