Monitor colour calibration tools?

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Hey i wondered if there are any programs/ guides to getting the best colour out of a monitor. Ive got my BenQ FP241W 24" coming today and i wana get the best picture i can out of it.

Any advice?
 
find it hard to beleive no one on here knows of anything i could use to calibrate the colours of my monitor. What happened to badass etc?

Though i dont actually have it yet as city-link = incompetent (fill in the word)
 
I'd be interested to know if there's any good software based calibration. As far as I know though, you need hardware like a Spyder or similar. They're pretty expensive unless you really need it for work use so I've never gone for one.
 
You can't calibrate by eye properly

You'll need some sort of a hardware colorimeter

sid
 
you can't always trust your eyes :p they are constantly changing between light levels of the room you are in and it can be very diff seeing the screen at night and day respectively which is why a hardware device does not have such a bias.

cheapest being the spyder 2 express @ around 50 monies - it does a fine job for everyday general use but for more colour critical work for photo editing etc something a little better is desirable like an eye-on2 display 2 at double the cost but only if you must have critical colours. the spyder will do a fine job as mentioned otherwise.
 
50 quid is something i probably cant justify. For just gaming really. yeash i know i spent 450 quid on a screen. But that was a at strech lol.

Would have hoped there was just some program i couild run and follow the tests and it be good for gaming. Alas on my current one it turned the screen blue. Though im sure the screen will look amazing when i get it anyway... thats when i get it, city-link at all.

BTW if you see on the news city link depo got burnt down it wasn't me. I probably shouldn't say that knowing my luck it may actually happen now lol.
 
Well think of it as a lifetime investment, it won't be just for this screen but any screen in the future too as well as every screen in your house so £50 is well justified. Also over time backlights fade so you need to re=calibrate at least once a month to keep it in check.
 
I was just checking out the Gretag Macbeth Eye-One Display 2.

It does not seem to support Vista at present.

Has that been an issue for anyone?
 
The Pantone Huey is quite cheap, I got mine new for £70 or so, and I hear you can get it even cheaper in the US.
From someone who also work with a McBeth Eye One expensive device, I can tell you it's used is now limited to the printer !
 
Yeah but it wouldn't be me paying for it so i wont be able to justify it lol.

O and just as an update, the very well known shop which i bought it from did infact not use city-link to send the pacel like their god damn website says. They used TNT. Who for the record also missed the saturday deleivery and claimed they did try and deleiver it and instead droped a card through my door today.

So not only did the certain shop screw up but so did TNT. I have the worlds worst luck with delievery and i dont live anywhere rural either.
 
It's disappointing that you can go and spend £400+ on a monitor and it's not calibrated out of the box. I have just sent a 226BW back to OCUK because i will unable to correct the haxed colors :( I too tried to calibrate using software, calibration pictures and even color profiles and i made it worse. Lol, perhaps my eyes are going?
 
No monitor is ever going to be calibrated out the box and there's a simple reason for that! it's because calibration has to be done at the user end because a few variables affect the calibration process from monitor panel characteristics to graphics card used and graphics drivers used.

That is why :)
 
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