DC10Tim From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2005, 1405 posts, RR: 16 Posted (7 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 2562 times:
Hi everyone,
I've been having a few problems with viruses on my laptop computer recently and have had to get the hard-drive formatted.
When everything has been re-installed, I've noticed that the colours on the monitor seem very subdued.
How can I tell quickly whether or not they are accurate? Some photos look fine, but others really dark. I have tried unsuccessfully to use the calibration program before and I'm a bit scared of messing things up using it and not being able to get back to suare one, or accurately determine what are the correct settings.
Fergulmcc From Ireland, joined Oct 2004, 1916 posts, RR: 54 Reply 5, posted (7 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 2487 times:
Quoting DC10Tim (Reply 3): This might sound like a daft question
No such thing as a daft question Tim.
Click: Start>Settings>Control Panel
It comes with your Photoshop, when you install Elements or any other PS and it places it there in Control Panel. Just follow the instructions and you should be ok.
JumboJim747 From Australia, joined Oct 2004, 2462 posts, RR: 50 Reply 9, posted (7 years 9 months 2 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 2440 times:
Tim
Make sure that your colors are set correctly.
1-Go to your desktop find an empty space
2_ right click on the desktop click properties.
3-go to the last tab on the top of the box and click on settings.
4-make sure that the colours are set at the highest settings.
Example 16bit or 32bit.
Anything below that would look off color.
Hope that helps.
DC10Tim From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2005, 1405 posts, RR: 16 Reply 10, posted (7 years 9 months 2 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 2430 times:
OK thanks guys,
I have found 'S3 Gamma Plus' in Display Properties > Settings > Advanced
There isn't any indication as to what to do though. All sorts of things to mess with, but how do I know if the colour is correct? Is it just down to personal preference?
I can see myself spending ages here arsing about and not getting anything looking right
Flyfisher1976 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 802 posts, RR: 2 Reply 11, posted (7 years 9 months 2 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 2404 times:
Quoting LHRsunriser (Reply 2): I find that a laptop isn't the best place to edit in the first place anyways!
Actually my monitor has a high-def LCD widescreen...great for editing photos. I would even venture to say that it rivals the $750 Sony LCD that I bought for my office just 6 months ago.
Quoting Fergulmcc (Reply 1): one I know is the Adobe Gamma one which is quite good.
I've never had much luck getting this calibration program to work. The part with the three colored squares...I can never get the lines to disappear. They don't seem to really change at all when I move the slider(s).
Fergulmcc From Ireland, joined Oct 2004, 1916 posts, RR: 54 Reply 12, posted (7 years 9 months 2 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 2395 times:
Quoting Flyfisher1976 (Reply 11): The part with the three colored squares...I can never get the lines to disappear. They don't seem to really change at all when I move the slider(s).
It can be tricky alright but if you squint a bit it helps a bit.
DC10Tim From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2005, 1405 posts, RR: 16 Reply 14, posted (7 years 9 months 2 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 2390 times:
I've just had a look at this thing now in daylight.
There are 3 dials that control Gamma, Brightness and Contrast. These can be done for the three colours individually, or for RGB altogether.
There is a box with an image in it to see what is happening. This can be set to the 'Calibration Image', which is a bowl of fruit, or there are several graphs, colour maps, or you can have the individual colours on their own at 100% or 75% (what does this mean?).
Sulman From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 2028 posts, RR: 35 Reply 15, posted (7 years 9 months 2 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 2380 times:
Tim,
I'm not sure that's Adobe gamma - it's quite possible you may not have installed it, I didn't with PS 7.0. Read the helpfile in PS to see how it's done (I can't quite remember; it's not hard).
Keep it simple. Use the RGB adjustment first - it's easiest. There should be a brightness adjustment graphic as well (A dark grey box within a black frame) - use your monitor brightness control to adjust that.
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