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09/05/2004 01:37:46 AM · #1 |
Okay...okay...I've seen all of the threads on how to calibrate your monitor using this site and that site or this program or that hardware...but the websites aren't working for me, I can't afford programs or hardware, so what am I supposed to do to get this screen's color right???
The only control that I can find for it is the brightness and I have NO clue how to do the other settings... I had a heck of a time trying to edit my Fairy Tales entry and I had to switch between my home monitor and my computer to edit it. Now, coming back home for the weekend I see how bad the color is on my Framing entry and I can see why it's not scoring as well as I thought it should!
HELP!
EDIT: Not to mention I'm horribly afraid to vote on challenges now, even though I have the time...
Message edited by author 2004-09-05 01:59:03.
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09/05/2004 02:47:35 AM · #2 |
If you can't trust the color of your display and you have no way of adjusting it, you'll have to give up doing any serious editing on your images, at least the color/tone-specific ones. Try and get by with crop and sharpen?
I suppose you could infer some color data by looking at each of the color channels in grayscale, but as Winnie the Pooh says, "oh bother". |
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09/05/2004 08:06:49 AM · #3 |
| I have the same dilemma as I use a laptop but no other home computer to compare it with. One, very rough, method to use is to adjust what little you can on the laptop to where most of the photos here look right to you and hope for the best. I don't find a lot of other people's shots to be too dark or too light, and I don't get any comments about mine being off, so I think I am pretty close. Practice by posting from the laptop and checking it on your home computer and remembering what you did to make it look right. After a while you will probably be able to form a mental picture of what you need to see on the laptop's screen for it to look correct at home. May be tedious but you can at least zero in on it some, get you into the ballpark. |
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09/05/2004 08:25:31 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by AmiYuy:
Okay...okay...I've seen all of the threads on how to calibrate your monitor using this site and that site or this program or that hardware...but the websites aren't working for me, I can't afford programs or hardware, so what am I supposed to do to get this screen's color right???
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Go find a nice guy who works in the computer lab on campus. Or nice girl. Make appropriate pitiful noises, and someone will be able to help you out. :) That's what I did with my laptop Freshman year. Worked like a charm.
Clara
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09/05/2004 09:32:25 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by AmiYuy:
The only control that I can find for it is the brightness and I have NO clue how to do the other settings... |
That may be the only "physical" control (where you use a button on the laptop to change it), but there are probably software settings on the computer. Do this:
1) Right click on an empty area of your desktop
2) Click on properties
3) Click on the Settings tab (top right)
4) Look for an Advanced button (bottom right) and click it
If you made it through step #4, you're kind of on your own. Nothing from that point on is standardized enough for me to give you step-by-step instructions. However...
Look around for a tab that is specific to the chipset used by your laptop for the display. For example, I have a "GeForce FX 5200" tab on my computer. Click on it and you'll find a wealth of settings you can change.
On mine, there is a "color correction" tab where I can then make all kinds of changes to brightness, contrast, gamma, digital sharpening. It even lets me tune each of the RGB channels separately or together.
Hopefully you'll have something like this too. Good luck!!!
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09/05/2004 09:44:51 AM · #6 |
Bingo! I've got a Trident Video Accelerator Cyberblade XP Ai 1. Now to figure out how to do this, hmmmm..., this is gonna take some time. Big THANKS to dwterry.
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09/05/2004 11:01:37 AM · #7 |
Or take all your pictures in black and white :O
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09/05/2004 02:43:40 PM · #8 |
| I always just open up DPC and set my monitor at the exact point where it is callibrated according to the bar on the bottom of the page, and keep it at that angle, or just check the angle before/after submitting. |
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09/05/2004 04:11:21 PM · #9 |
Well, the problem with doing that is that the colors aren't right. It's not the brighness, as I said. I'm gonna try some more with the stuff later...but it's so confusing, I don't know what half of the stuff means and I'm afraid I'll just mess it up more. I might just be taking blemt's advice. ^_^
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