Screen calibration and profile

DM
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Daniel Masse
Jun 10, 2004
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Hello !

I have spent hours and hours trying to get a reasonable concordance between my screen and the prints I got from the lab. No way.

I am trying to match the screen colors with the prints made on a Frontier. I have talked to the technician in charge of the Frontier, and I know the profile of his machine. I also believe that I now understand how Photoshop manages colors.

I am using a EyeOne probe to calibrate and profile my screen, and this raises three questions :

1. When I chose a white point temperature of 6500 °K, the software asks me to adjust the three channels RGB, using the hardware controls. Yet, when I chose "natural white", no adjustment is required. Does that make sense ? Nowhere is it said what temperature is "natural white".

2. The software asks me only to adjust for white point temperature, and yet it is obvious from the print that colors have shifted significantly : why does not the software help me adjust the RGB channels as well ?

3. To adjust for white point temperature, I used the hardware controls, as suggested. Yet, I have a piece of software, PowerStrip, which came with my graphic card. I used it only when I purchased the screen, to adjust the colors to my liking, but I have not touched it since. If I use it to match the screen colors to my print, then I will change my screen profile, right ? Then all my calibration and profiling will be useless… Should I remove PowerStrip ? How should I use it ?

Thanks !

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Rick
Jun 10, 2004

1. You should uninstall Powerstrip. It only serves to confuse the
process.

2. If the monitor has a hardware preset for 6500K, use it. Don’t mess with the individual RGB controls if the preset looks ok.

3. If you want to use a custom white point, the quickest way to calibrate is to hold a piece of your selected print media next to your monitor, display a page of solid white and adjust the color temp until the two look the same color (i.e. no yellow or blue tints). This will normally be somewhere between 5000K and 7500K.

Rick

"Daniel Masse" wrote in message
Hello !

I have spent hours and hours trying to get a reasonable concordance between my screen and the prints I got from the lab. No way.

I am trying to match the screen colors with the prints made on a Frontier. I have talked to the technician in charge of the Frontier, and I know the profile of his machine. I also believe that I now understand how Photoshop manages colors.

I am using a EyeOne probe to calibrate and profile my screen, and this raises three questions :

1. When I chose a white point temperature of 6500
DM
Daniel Masse
Jun 10, 2004
Rick wrote:
1. You should uninstall Powerstrip. It only serves to confuse the process.

OK. I just unchecked the "use color correction" (I like to keep PowerStrip, which I use to restore icons placement, when I want to look at my site in different screen definition…)

2. If the monitor has a hardware preset for 6500K, use it. Don’t mess with the individual RGB controls if the preset looks ok.

No, my monitor does not have a preset for 6500°K.

But my problem remains : how to get a concordance between the images seen through soft-proofing in Photoshop, and my prints… The difference is too much for me to live with it…
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Rick
Jun 10, 2004
"Daniel Masse" wrote in message
Rick wrote:
1. You should uninstall Powerstrip. It only serves to confuse the process.

OK. I just unchecked the "use color correction" (I like to keep PowerStrip, which I use to restore icons placement, when I want to look at my site in different screen definition…)

2. If the monitor has a hardware preset for 6500K, use it. Don’t mess with the individual RGB controls if the preset looks ok.

No, my monitor does not have a preset for 6500

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