Colour Profileing a 24" DGM

RussD · 29 Sep 2009 at 12:34

For those who use photoshop and profile their Monitors.
I have the 24" DGM Monitor and find it very Good. But where I'm comeing unstuck is in my printing in photoshop.
I set my Brightness 4---Contrast 55---R46---Gr45---Blue50.
My photos and everything else looks BRILLIANT on screen, my colours print Very Good, but they come out Darker than what I see. It's the same to whatever I calibrate to. I use a Spyder 2 Suite.
Can you tell me what you have done to get "what you see, is what you print"
Do you leave your RGB at 50-50-50 and Contrast to 50 and just adjust your Brightness?? Please do tell because after one year of doing this, it is doing my Head IN!
Thanks.

Messiah Khan · 29 Sep 2009 at 13:04

Does the Spyder 2 Suite allow you to choose the lumens calibration target? Also have you made a paper profile or calibrated the printer in any way? Also what lighting conditions are you viewing the print under?

RussD · 29 Sep 2009 at 13:47

OK--I've Calibrated the printer as per instructions and the Prints are total rubbish, colour not right. If I chose the proper profile. i.e Photo Quality Glossy Film, (as i always do) the prints are Excellent but darkish.
Now this is where I'm Brain Dead! (Does the Spyder 2 Suite allow you to choose the lumens calibration target?) Not got a clue as to what Lumens is. All I know is that they say, Set the Monitor to it,s DEFAULTS, Set your Brightness/Contrast and then chose 6500 lumens, RGB at its setings of 50-50-50 and All should be Good. But it never is. Looks Perfect on the monitor though. I can't have my monitor too Bright as it hurts my Eyes. I have tried Black Card all around monitor and without. Still same. So how do I get my Printer to print what I see in Photoshop. The Printer Prints what I see in ACDSEE Pro. Why not Photoshop??? But I prefer PSCS3 for everything. Lighting condition. Done these, profiled in Dark Room, profiled in Daylight, profiled in daylight with black card around screen, profiled with new stupid EU bulbs in background. Many more as well and none of them makes a blind bit of difference as my Screen looks Great. It's the darn prints in photoshop. Sorry to bec long winded. THANKS.

james.miller · 29 Sep 2009 at 13:50

48-44-51 for mine (RGB), 44/75 brightness/contrast. stock is far too red and washed out. thats about as close as i can get it with the monitors lack of control, i use win7's built in calibrater to do the rest. it's not as good as a
hardware calibration but its close enough

oh and i also have prints appearing darker then they are on screen lol

RussD · 29 Sep 2009 at 14:01

Hi james. That's what's frustrating me, the prints comeing out darker. Its the same on my 22" Samsung. Brilliant Pics on my screen but prints Dark. I know it's something to do with the brightness. Lower the brightness (like I do) and prints should be Good. But they not. For photoshop, high brighness results in Dark Prints, Low brightness in Good prints. But it don't happen. So trying to find which Bright and contrast works.
I'm due to Reformat soon to start again, so need to get it right this time.
Cheers

RussD · 30 Sep 2009 at 00:39

THANKS for the Help....I have FIXED it. Redid the calibration with Bright 25--Contrast 75--6500Kelvin. After that I needed to brighten my images slightly as they went a little darker.
Cheers.