Originally posted by kirbic:
Sonja,
I very much recommend the above posted link...
monitor calibration how to
Specifically, I recommend that anyone who has doubts about how their monitor is set up, go to the above, and work through all of the pages linked in the frame at the left. Once you are done, you have done a good, basic calibration.
To get more sophisticated than this you will need hardware-based calibration, e.g. spyder or similar. A hardware-based system like the Spyder can calibrate the R, G and B channels separately, and also account for nonlinear behavior of the monitor hardware. It's a superior way to calibrate, but at a price!
Again, not to worry if you can't differentiate the blackest squares on the DPC scale. Part of this is determined by room lighting and screen intensity in nearby areas.
Try this: after calibrating, mouse over the DPC test bar, right click & copy, paste into a new file in your graphics editor with a pure black background. Zoom in until the last four or five squares on the black end take up a good portion of the screen. Dim your room as much as possible. You should be able to easily differentiate the last two squares. repeat with a white background... you will not be able to differentiate them, most likely! |
Cool sight! My monitor seems to be working just fine then. I went throught most of it and it matched real well with all of it. I did this last year sometime. Great stuff. I wonder if we can keep this somewhere for people who need it?
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