Calibrate your display

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I'd just like to encourage everyone to calibrate their display using Supercal.

It's a bit fiddly, and things may look wrong initially, after having become accustomed to what ever was present before, but everything looks so much better with a nice calibrated colour profile. I know there are hardware calibration devices that can do an even better job, but Supercal works well.

It can take a few tries and you probably want to set the gamma slider to 2.2. When setting white balance, think about how grey things looks in real life - there's more of a push towards red than you might think.

(I accidentally switched back to the default "Color LCD" profile on my MacBook today and it was shocking!)
 
I have a Spyder 2 which I use for calibration. I've only calibrated one monitor though and it's helped LOADS with my photography work :) Looks so much clearer and I miss it when I'm at work :(

Deffo worth doing :)
 
hmm, sure :p

In all seriousness though why do manufacturers post such horrible default colour profiles for their displays?

My TV for instance looked utterly poo when I unpacked it (great feeling you get when you just spent the best part of a grand on a display!) and after a few minutes fiddling it looked so much better.
 
wij said:
hmm, sure :p

In all seriousness though why do manufacturers post such horrible default colour profiles for their displays?

My TV for instance looked utterly poo when I unpacked it (great feeling you get when you just spent the best part of a grand on a display!) and after a few minutes fiddling it looked so much better.
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In all fairness, it depends a lot on the signal it receives as well :) - and a fair few other things.

My TFT "appeared" to me to be correct for years, but did look slightly different every time power was disconnected/reconnected - even though the colour profile hadn't been changed, nor had the settings on the monitor changed. With Spyder, I calibrate once a week, now it's only very very minor changes, sometimes non at all. It is never the same when it loses signal and regains it, or power is lost then restored.

:) No monitor is perfect!
 
I haven't got around to calibrating my new iMac's display, however, I did spend a good hour calibrating my TV purely because it looked so bad out of the box.

I used a combination of software and hardware tools to calibrate my TV but it looks a hundred times better now, and it truely is a joy to watch HD on it :D

For the record I have a Huey Pro sitting here, and a few THX/calibration discs.
 
Just had a play with Abode Gamma, had a picture of the moon, it's nowa greyer grey, was slightly blue before.

So I guess that's good?
 
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What do people do with their Huey Pros etc, after they have calbrated their screen ?

Surely its a one time use object and unless you have 50 screens to calibrate the expense doesn't seem worth it?

Anyway the moral of the story is.........




........would someone would like to lend me one ... :D
 
Nice app, calibrated last night. It's not a million miles away from the default profile for my 2407, says quite a bit for the default profile :)
 
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