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.

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.

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.

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.