Monitor Calibration - Hell!

King_Boru · 5 Jul 2006 at 19:55

Hi again,

I am trying to callobrate my monitor so I have a near enough representation of actual prints. I just did the Adobe Gamma Loader calibration wizard and loaded some pictures of my baby girl up. Now, when I assign the Adobe 1998 RGB profile to the image it produces a massive amount of contrast compared to the imbedded sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile. This is driving me mad becasue I am getting very worried about the actual prints I have ordered being completely messed up. Can you guys please help a new digi photographer calibrate his monitor?

Cheers

King.

SDK^ · 5 Jul 2006 at 20:00

Have a read of this : http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/color_management.htm and also http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/monitor_calibration.htm

King_Boru · 6 Jul 2006 at 10:18

Right, the prints have come back slightly over exsposed and saturated compared to how I saw them on my monitor :mad:

Luckily they were free. However, I need to get this fixed for future prints. Is there a way to get this working with your help guys?

Cheers,

King.

Invasion · 6 Jul 2006 at 10:29

Can I ask who you are getting your prints from ?

King_Boru · 6 Jul 2006 at 10:41

These ones I got from J*****s online (as they offer 10 free prints when you sign up).

EDIT: Cheers, forgot about that.

Blackvault · 6 Jul 2006 at 11:00

King _boru might want to star out the competitor

Blackvault

Invasion · 6 Jul 2006 at 11:03

King_Boru said:
These ones I got from ******* online (as they offer 10 free prints when you sign up).

I have been using Photobox and getting results that are a really good match to what I see on my monitor. My D50 is on default SRGB along with Photoshop.

this is from the Photobox website:

It is important to note that the Fuji Frontier printers currently strip out any embedded profiles in your images, so you should ensure that your images are submitted in sRGB. You can also use our calibration print to adjust your screen to match our output as closely as possible.

Hope this helps

King_Boru · 6 Jul 2006 at 11:22

Appreciate your pointers.

I am going to run the same prints off at Photobox and see what comes out. I have configured my monitor according to their jpeg and applied all the prints with the sRGB profile.

Fingers crossed.

King.

King_Boru · 6 Jul 2006 at 11:34

double post

King_Boru · 7 Jul 2006 at 10:37

Righty, the prints arrived this morning (only ordered yesterday!) and they are superb. Not at all saturated/over bright (little les colorful) compared to the ones from J*****s. Thanks for recomending Photobox! Much appreciated!

King.

Invasion · 7 Jul 2006 at 12:31

King_Boru said:
Righty, the prints arrived this morning (only ordered yesterday!) and they are superb. Not at all saturated/over bright (little les colorful) compared to the ones from J*****s. Thanks for recomending Photobox! Much appreciated!

King.

I thought that would sort out the problem for you

Photobox speed is amazing as well.

Regards