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08/30/2005 01:11:25 AM · #1 |
| I am really upset. I have been working on a photo for the shoes challenge and when I look at it on my screen I like it alot. When I take it to my son's computer it lightens it up so much that I don't like it at all. How can I be sure that what I submit for people to vote on even comes close to what I call "my photo". The photo I see on my son's computer doesn't look like "my photo" to me, so I feel that people will be voting on a version that I wouldn't even call mine. For example, my dairy challenge photo got some comments about the background not being so good. I knew it wasn't the best on my screen but it was all I had to work with at the time, then I looked at it on my son's computer and OMG it was horrible. I don't know how many people saw it my way and how many saw that awlful version. Do you know what I mean, is their any hope for this? I don't think calibrating will solve this, because again, everybody isn't calibrated. |
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08/30/2005 01:38:48 AM · #2 |
hey pixie -----> over here
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08/30/2005 01:55:59 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by rikki11:
hey pixie -----> over here |
Rikki to my rescue again,
it doesn't look like there was an actual answer except that 50 percent will see something different than what I see, so are you telling me to just go with it? |
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08/30/2005 02:00:30 AM · #4 |
Yep. Unless you have a monitor calibrator such as a Spyder.
You won't really be able to get the same calibration as the rest of us as you found out yesterday in my previous thread. Like one commenter said, just go with it.
Do you have an LCD or a CRT monitor? have you tried calibarting it via Easy RGB
Message edited by author 2005-08-30 02:00:49. |
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08/30/2005 02:10:37 AM · #5 |
| I don't know which one I have. No, I have not tried to calibrate it. I have been pleased with it up til now cause whatever I see is usually extremely close to what I print out here at home on my Canon and the prints I get from MPIX. Don't know if I want to mess with that. |
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08/30/2005 02:16:13 AM · #6 |
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Hmmm... then I guess just leave it... it's all up to you... but there might be cases where colors might not appear what they seem... like in my case, i'll just submit photos and let the cards fall where they may so to speak
Message edited by author 2005-08-30 02:17:33. |
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08/30/2005 02:16:28 AM · #7 |
Around here you'll want to mess with it...or you will keep receiving those comments. There are a lot of people who do calibrate here.
Just finished recalibrating mine an hour ago, yes it is a pain (almost 20 minutes with a spyder) but the results are amazing and what people are missing by not calibrating is even more amazing.
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08/30/2005 02:17:25 AM · #8 |
| do you know the difference between Adobe RGB and sRGB? the answer could like (partially) in color space... |
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08/30/2005 02:18:13 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by awpollard:
Around here you'll want to mess with it...or you will keep receiving those comments. There are a lot of people who do calibrate here.
Just finished recalibrating mine an hour ago, yes it is a pain (almost 20 minutes with a spyder) but the results are amazing and what people are missing by not calibrating is even more amazing. |
I've been thinking about a spyder2 but it's damn expensive :( |
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08/30/2005 02:18:24 AM · #10 |
Hey Rikki I posted a link to a 72 buck spyder in the other thread.
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08/30/2005 02:22:09 AM · #11 |
| Sweet! Thanks Andy. I thought gammas were important. My monitor I think has a gamma scale... |
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08/30/2005 02:44:55 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by rikki11:
Sweet! Thanks Andy. I thought gammas were important. My monitor I think has a gamma scale... |
With the Colorvision Plus version you choose between a 5000K (warm (redish)) or 6300K (cool (bluish)) color warmth before starting the calibration process...that is about as you can get to setting the gamma on the cheaper on.
Then depending on your monitor you adjust RGB guns or Warmth (monitor presets) and the third choice is you monitor don't do either which is bad, to get as close to the Color Warmth as you chose in the first step. I got within .07 tonigth which is pretty darn good.
Then it goes off and reads colors from your screen for about 20 minutes. When finished it creates a Profile that is loaded at start up and you set in your Photo Editing program and all is good. I use the same profile with my printer and get prints pretty close to what I see on the screen (close...remember this is the cheaper one).
The expensive Spyder +software packages have resident software that you can mess with gammas and grayscale and bunch of other things that I don't understand and I think they will produce a real printer ICC profile as well.
Message edited by author 2005-08-30 02:46:19.
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