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04-22-2010, 12:57 AM
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Calibration
Is there a way to tell how accurate a monitor calibration is? Im using a spyder 3 pro at home and it seems to be making the colors warmer than they are. I can adjust my colors to be how i like on my monitor and when i view it from 10 other uncalibrated monitors, the color looks way more blue/magenta. Is this a fault in the thing or are ALL the other monitors wrong?
for example this pic from my other post has no magenta/blue on my calibrated monitor but on every other monitor it's got a blue hue
what are you guys with properly calibrated monitors that you KNOW has a correct color representation seeing?
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04-22-2010, 01:25 AM
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The thing with colour calibration is it's maddeningly complicated, because no one has settled on a universal standard. The pic on the right and the crop does have a bit of a blue hue on my monitor that has been calibrated with a Spyder3 Elite.
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04-22-2010, 02:42 AM
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damn, does that mean my spyder 3pro is a bad one?
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04-22-2010, 09:05 AM
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I calibrated my monitors using the built-in Windows 7 calibrator.
The right one does look a bit bluish to me too. Same thing on my notebook.
Perhaps you should try calibrating your monitor with different ambient lighting?
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04-22-2010, 09:51 AM
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How old is your calibration? Have you tried recalibrating recently?
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04-22-2010, 11:00 AM
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i just did it again. This time i reset my monitor settings and didnt touch anything, before i adjusted the RGB sliders. Still same results...
hmmm i just used the windows calibration tool as well. pretty much the color shift is controled my the gamma slider. According to the calibrator, I had to lower the gamma slider almost all the way to the bottom. When i did that, the blue hue goes away and looks just like the spyder3pro calibration.... wtf
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04-22-2010, 01:07 PM
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What gamma is your monitor set to? 1.8 or 2.2? Try switching it.
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04-22-2010, 01:43 PM
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Hmm...the left one looks more blue to me too. I'm also using the Sypder 3 Pro.
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04-22-2010, 02:28 PM
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^ on my manually calibrated MPB
It's there is a blue cast on the right image. When he posted the image in the other thread, I thought it was the type of look he was going for. The one on the left is more warmer and natural.
From what I have read on the internet the latest standard is 2.2 gamma with a WB of 6000k. But i think WB is dependant on your ambient light. I maybe wrong
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04-28-2010, 12:13 AM
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mine's set at 2.2 6500k.
I've decided that my spyder works perfectly. I went to the mac store and checkd my site on all their monitors including iphones. It looks perfect like how it looked when i calibrated my home monitor. I guess most PC lcd's come with cranked gamma that makes the color shift blue? so weird. Do macs come pre calibrated outta the factory? cuz the color on everyone of them is perfectly the same and fabulous
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