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03/30/2007 11:38:49 AM · #1 |
Last night, I bought a Pantone Huey.
Brought it home, installed it and "calibrated" my monitor.
Now - the reds are so bright, but everything else looks dim. My blacks and whites look grey.
WHAT did I do wrong ?
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03/30/2007 11:43:26 AM · #2 |
Do just your images look all "wonky" or does everything?
If it's your images, I would try to get them to look good with the new calibration.
Also, look at some pictures on DPC. Do they look right with the new calibration? If not, try to recalibrate. If so, then it was your editing that was blowing out the reds, most likely due to a poorly calibarated monitor.
Good luck.
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03/30/2007 11:48:13 AM · #3 |
Give your eyes time to adjust. The proper color temperature that most calibraters adjust your monitor to is 6500K. This is much "redder" than the standard 9300K that most montiors default to.
Also, most monitors are much too bright for photo editing (how many complaints have we seen on various forums that say "My prints are too dark!"--it's because most people's monitors are too bright).
So, it's normal that your monitor looks "redder" and "dimmer" than previously.
That said, take a quick look at this page:
//www.photofriday.com/calibrate.php
Can you see the full range of tones, from A to Z? Does A look black and does Z look white? If so, you are probably OK.
Message edited by author 2007-03-30 11:48:41. |
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03/30/2007 11:53:25 AM · #4 |
I calibrated my monitor lots of time with a Spyder2 and had very erratic and odd-looking results pretty much every time. I don't discount the fact that I could hve been doing it wrong, but I followed the instructions meticulously and was very unsatisfied with the results.
I eventually decided just to set my monitor to sRGB (which is the color space I always use for processing) and then adjusted the brightness and contrast using the page that Zal listed (or the guide at the bottom of the DPC pages) and have been very happy with the results.
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03/30/2007 11:55:57 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Zal:
Can you see the full range of tones, from A to Z? Does A look black and does Z look white? If so, you are probably OK. |
Yes I can, yes it does and yes it does.
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03/30/2007 12:07:25 PM · #6 |
Okay - I think most of the wonkiness is on my own images.
I opened one up in PSE, and it was horribly red, even though the same image here on DPC looked okay. Had to change the colour management of PSE to "no colour management" then they looked the same.
BUT - they still don't look like the test prints I got from the lab :(
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