Comments on: Monitor Calibration and Color Management

By: ariana

ariana — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:21:08 +0000

Hi Lacey,
I actually had used the sypder 2 express which is quite old technology. I had heard that it would work fine on non glossy non wide gamut monitors, but I have since discovered that is not the case..

And I know that because I very recently upgraded to the X-Rite EODIS2 Eye-One Display 2
and it really changed the colors of both my glossy wide gamut screen AND the non glossy regular gamut screen I use at work!

The advantage to the eye one is that it also calibrates brightness which I believe the spyder does not.

To find out whether your monitor is wide gamut or not just google the monitor model name and you will usually find the specs for it! Glossy is fairly obvious, do you see your reflection in it? :)

Hope that helps!

By: Lacey

Lacey — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:49:26 +0000

Ariana~

Do you still calibrate with the Spyder3Express?

And call me dumb, but what do you mean by this: “decent non glossy non wide gamut screen” ? How do I know if my monitor is one of these?

Calibration has been plaguing me and I know I need to do it before I dive into figuring out editing, but I just don’t know which one to get since I’m a non-pro…

Thanks for your info!

By: ariana

ariana — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:59:32 +0000

Ashley, you won’t regret it :)

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:02:16 +0000

I got my calibrator! I did my desktop…laptop is next! I can’t wait to play! thank you thank you!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:49:32 +0000

Thanks! And great, now I’m going to need a new monitor! If I could turn back time, I swear, I would have majored in this in college, would have actually been useful :)

By: ariana

ariana — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:54:55 +0000

Kristen, you download firefox (free!) and to answer your question YES, you need a business just to keep from going bankrupt :)

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:34:10 +0000

Wait, you say have a Dell, as do I. Do you use internet explorer or did you download Firefox? Possibly a dumb question, I haven’t searched to see if you can download Firefox. Calibration is yet another thing on my Christmas list, geesh, aren’t you finding you practically HAVE to have a business to keep up with costs?!

By: ariana

ariana — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:50:21 +0000

Sarah, I’d buy a basic display and plug it in.. Laptops are notoriously difficult to get true color/brightness mostly because of the viewing angle discrepancy!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:42:54 +0000

How would you calibrate an iMac? I don’t really have the option of switching monitors considering the monitor is the computer… Any ideas?

I have been very lazy about not calibrating my monitor (mostly because it confuses me and I thought it wouldn’t ‘really’ matter, but I was wrong…) and would like to attempt a good calibration.

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