Help With colour Management

[robertgilbert86]

Hi all, I have a problem with the colour management on my computer/photoshop;

I can make the images look really nice and rich on my computer, but when viewed on other computers they look super bland, desaturated etc (more than just the difference in contrast ratio between monitors).
I have one photo which looks like a silhouette on my monitor, but on other peoples you can see the windows of buildings. See for yourself . Check my deviantArt (link in sig) and see if you think the recent pics look overly bland.

At the moment I use the 'display optimisation wizard' in the nVidia settings to calibrate my colour.

I really can't afford a piece of hardware to do this at the moment so what do I need to do to bring my colour settings in line with everyone else's?

Any help would be great because I need to submit some photos for a student gallery tomorrow. I suspect if I send the photos off for printing they will come back looking crap too.

 

[Wile E. Coyote]

Have you tried Adobe gamma? It should be your control panel, run the setup on it, it will take you through the steps

 

[SDK^]

Whatever colour profile settings you are using you need to ensure that before you save the image you convert it to the colour profile : Edit ->Convert to profile.

 

[growse]

Any image viewed within a colour managed application and on two systems with calibrated monitors should look the same. If one of the monitors isn't calibrated, or you're using a non-colour-managed application and the image profile isn't sRGB, all bets are off for making things look the same.

What colourspace are the images you're creating/editing in? If it's for web viewing mainly, I'd recommend converting to sRGB after you're done with them.

 

[Ed1982]

Rob, two things:

1) The photosoc darkroom has a calibrated monitor which you can use
2) I've got a Spyder 2 that you can use if you'd like, but not until next week.

Fancy sharing the photo's your submitting?

Ed