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06/21/2005 10:18:40 AM · #1 |
What do you think about a new tutorial describing Monitor Calibration?
While an easy topic to locate on google and a simple task to perform, it might help new people like myself smooth the learning curve. Memberwide calibration would increase the accuracy of the reviews and the quality of the submissions. The tutorial would be easy to compose by a experienced digital photographer and would produce many immediate benefits for dpchallenge.com and its participants.
When new members join they might even receive a suggestion to calibrate their monitors for optimum performance and consistency.
thanks, jrh
(thanks to hankk for the idea) |
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06/21/2005 10:19:34 AM · #2 |
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06/21/2005 10:34:40 AM · #3 |
Agreed
There should definately be a reminder about it for new users. And of course the tutorial
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06/21/2005 10:43:23 AM · #4 |
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06/21/2005 10:52:44 AM · #5 |
heres a free utility that does a pretty good job
2000_Xp_Calibr2.25
Message edited by author 2005-06-21 11:39:07. |
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06/21/2005 11:06:36 AM · #6 |
Yes please!!!
(Above link didn't work for me, page unavailable.)
Message edited by author 2005-06-21 11:09:08. |
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06/21/2005 11:09:08 AM · #7 |
sounds good to me.
you gonna write it? ;) |
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06/21/2005 11:25:56 AM · #8 |
| Sounds kind of silly and a waste of time to me. Your monitor should be calibrated to the media you work in. It might be a good idea to have several profiles. However trying to get everyone's monitor to see the same thing sounds unreasonable to me, unless everyone is using the same kind of monitor. |
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06/21/2005 11:34:21 AM · #9 |
I wish some people here would calibrate their monitors. I am being told in comments about colors in my pic that aren't there so obviously they are not seeing the picture correctly. And it sucks too when they say they took off points for it.
Also, doesn't a real calibration of your monitor or profiling, require a piece of equipment like a Spyder?
Message edited by author 2005-06-21 11:35:27.
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06/21/2005 11:39:10 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by Alienyst:
Also, doesn't a real calibration of your monitor or profiling, require a piece of equipment like a Spyder? |
i would think that most people could do with a good, basic calibration in general. if you're using your monitor right out of the box with no adjustments, you're not seeing the "whole picture" (no pun intended).
that being said, getting everyone to calibrate is kind of a pipe dream. i think the biggest challenge is getting everyone to learn that they SHOULD. |
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06/21/2005 01:29:29 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by muckpond:
sounds good to me.
you gonna write it? ;) |
lol, i must admit that i did feel bad because i recognized that i was kind of "passing the buck" to somone with more experience with seemingly little regard for the value of their time.
I would really like to help develop this. I would be glad to put together an outline and develop it as much as I can through research on the internet, but my experience with calibration is minimal. If somone with experience and credibilty would take over, or review, or make suggestions to the tutorial that i write, i would say that i would start on the tutorial within a week.
My main concern is that my inexperience would leave a lot to be desired of the tutorial, thereby significantly and negatively affecting the potential improvement to dpchallenge.com.
Nonetheless, I would like to get the ball rolling. Do you think it would be ok if I create an outline(primarily based on info from googled websites and info from the library at the University of Mississippi) that will provide a starting point for a tutorial on Monitor Calibration? My plan is to submit a draft outline to a forum for critique within a week. Hopefully this critique by the members will help to fill in the gaps caused by my inexperience. The future of the Monitor Calibration Tutorial could then be decided from this point. |
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06/21/2005 02:10:02 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by gwphoto:
Sounds kind of silly and a waste of time to me. Your monitor should be calibrated to the media you work in. It might be a good idea to have several profiles. However trying to get everyone's monitor to see the same thing sounds unreasonable to me, unless everyone is using the same kind of monitor. |
The statement above only fortifies the concept that a monitor calibration tutorial would be beneficial to some members.
One objective of monitor calibration is to get output devices to view an image just as the image was viewed on the source monitor, therefore I do not understand your statements. Would you not like your pictures viewed the same with attributes on my monitor as you view them on your monitor?
If I work 3 hours to capture the perfect picture and then another hour perfecting it in photshop, I would like others(esp voters) to see my image exactly the way that I see it on my monitor. I understand that exact replication on another monitor is not possible, but with Monitor Calibration, you can come close. If this were silly and a waste of time then I doubt that there would be so many people calibrating their monitors.
My suggestion does not require that a person calibrate their monitor to view dpreview.com [ although not a bad requirement if it were enforceable ; ) ]
I agree that the monitor should be calibrated for the media that you work, in and that it would be a great idea to have several profiles. My first suggestion is that a message be sent to a user at the time of membership acceptance that informs people of the importance of the Monitor Calibration profiles. My second suggestion is a tutorial that clearly illustrates the process calibrating a monitor, including setting up and using profiles.
thanks, jrh |
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06/21/2005 02:53:35 PM · #13 |
I thin a tutorial would be fabulous. As a new member, and someone new to working with photos and photoshop, I've only recently become aware of the importance of monitor calibration.
Side note, include in the tutorial the fact that not all monitors, including LCD's can be calibrated to the extent that we want them to be. I've tried calibrating my LCD, and I am still having problems with the extreme ranges. I've asked a few friends and been told some LCD monitors simply can't be calibrated properly because the monitor is simply not good enough to determine the differences between almost white/black and pure white/black.
That being said, anyone else having problems calibrating their LCD monitor? I've done a google/forum search here and found a few things, but nothing specifically relateding to problems calibrating and LCD monitor.
Any advise/help/tutorials would help. I've used the one that comes with adobe photoshop and a few other's I've gotten through the internet, and I'm still not getting the results I'd like.
Cheers
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06/22/2005 12:20:38 AM · #14 |
So, if your looking for a picture to test your monitor's calbration, here's a great shot. (You can also use the gradient bar shown when you are voting.
I was (rightfully so) criticized for the border around the picture, and I'm glad everyone gave me the heads up on monitor calibration. As I posted earlier, I'm having a hard time with my black and near black on my LCD.
So, thank you everyone for pointing out a common newbie error, and everyone elsem learn from my mistakes! If you can't see what I and others are talking about, calibrate your monitors!
Cheers everyone |
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