Monitor colours

smelltheglove

I've read here and there about callibrating screens for the right colour tones etc. My new laptop is hd and my lcd isn't. I notice colours look a lot brighter on my laptop, none have been overboard with my own but I have looked at some images on line and they have been too strong.

Anyway I'm heading off now in a minute to shoot my first wedding and I want to be sure my pictures are perfect later so I would be majorily in debt if someone could explain to me what I have to do to callibrate my screen properly and that way I will be able to do it to both so they are equal! Depending on what I'm doing I could use either!

quilmore

you need a colorimeter
spyder2 or spyder3 are some of them

CabanSail

If you are using Windoze & slaving the second screen then you will only be able to calibrate one screen ie the Laptop or the LCD.

I think Mac's are better for this & you can put in two profiles, but maybe someone else will confirm this.

quilmore

I have 2 screens and in windows vista I have one profile for each monitor, no problem
you need to create one at the time and rename them before creating the new one (with the included software you can't set a name for a profile other than a fixed one) and then assign each profile to each monitor as usual

created using spyder2express

NOTE: spyder2pro can be downloaded from colorvision.ch and the same key for spyder2express will work on spyder2pro, the assignation of profiles is a tad simplier, that's all, you still need to rename profiles after creating them

CabanSail

Maybe it's just XP that only allows one profile.

Have not used Vista yet.

leohoju

CabanSail wrote: »

Maybe it's just XP that only allows one profile.

Have not used Vista yet.

It'll work under XP as well (and probably 2000 too). Check out this link.

CabanSail

leohoju wrote: »

It'll work under XP as well (and probably 2000 too). Check out this link.

Thanks for that. I see there is also an updated RAW Viewer for XP there too.

Off to play in my Colour Space

smelltheglove

Thanks guys, I think I'll get the other half to do that bit so. So more technical than me!

DotOrg

smelltheglove wrote: »

My new laptop is hd and my lcd isn't.

if your lcd can display higher than 640px x 480px resolution and i think 99.9% will, then it is also 'HD'

HD is really only for TV resolutions, traditional TV being non-HD and being a resolution about 640x480 and a HD TV being one that can display up to 1080px x 1920px

stcstc

actually here in PAL land Video or TV is 720*576 res

there are various HD res, 1280*720 or 1920*1080, also a lot of what are ment to be HD lcd tvs are actually 1376 *768 and then downscale true HD to that res