How to get the best colour representation on screen

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Chris_Fane
Sep 5, 2008
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Hi there,

I am trying to get my LCD to most accurately represent colours from my Pantone swatch book. I have a Huey Pro calibration tool to assist in the LCD calibration.

So, I’ve calibrated the display as best as I could. It’s not a top of the line LCD and the Huey isn’t the top of the line colourimeter so I understand that I won’t get things absolutely perfect.

I’m starting with the basics: trying to match the C M Y & K from the swatch book. Figure that’s a good place to begin. I’d like to see RGB and CMYK values look as accurate as possible on my display. If I can figure that out, then I guess it’s time to understand how to match the Pantone values and the Lab settings and all that jazz.

My PS Colour Settings are North America General Purpose 2 RGB: sRGB IEC61966-2.1
CMYK: US Web Coated (SWOP) v2

Is there anything else I can be doing to get a better on-screen representation?

Is this Holy Grail even attainable with my modest setup?

I’d really value your advice and opinions!

Thanks!
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You need to look into your ambient light as well.

This thread (from the mac forum) is very long and rambling (currently 255 posts), but buried in there I suspect you’ll find everything you need:

<http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5c857/256>

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