Monitor Calibration Ebook

Morning!

I was wondering if you guys would mind helping me understand how I should be setting my monitor up and which colour profiles I should be using. Bearing in mind i don't have the spare money to buy a monitor calibration setup right now i'm going to have to make do for the time being with the monitors settings themselves.

I've always felt that my images when printed out seemed darker and more saturated than they did on the screen. Thinking it was my printer I would just lighten them to the point they looked washed out and then reprint, repeating until I was happy with the print. Having recently been given a new printer it does exactly the same so I'm guessing its my monitor that might be at fault.

I'll be very honest and say that I have tried to research this on the internet but it's going over my head and there are so many different opinions I'm getting a little lost.

I thought if I were to ask for help here I could get a dialogue going and be able to ask for clarification.

Currently I'm using an iMac running Mavericks which is set to Adobe RGB (1998) under the display settings.

I'm not doing any professional work where I need to check colours with clients or anything for the time being I just wish my printed images looked more like they do on screen.

thanks in advance for any help you might be able to pass my way.
Stacy

Just something I'd like to share, if you want to calibrate dual monitors with Spyder4 Express which states
"Simple Affordable Solution for color calibrating a single display"

So in theory you can only calibrate a single monitor, well not true!
Well here's a way to calibrate dual monitors using the same hardware, it's easy and works.

http://photoshopcs.com/cheap_dual_mo...on_spyder.html

I'm not in any way promoting the above, just bought this for my own benefit, It may work for other products and hopefully so. Just wanted to share for people in a similar situation as me.

Hello friends

Is there a way in Photoshop to lock and move all panels as one unit to an external monitor, including the options and the tools?
For now I have to move them one by one.

thanks


Jonathan

Hi!
I have a dilemma with a high resolution picture that I want to use on a large screen. The problem is the screen has a low resolution which seem to distort the picture sometimes. Also I would like to zoom in the picture.

The monitor is a 47 inch HP LD4720tm sporting a 1,920 by 1,080 resolution. So the resoultion is like an ordinary desktop monitor but the size is more than double that. In other words, the pixel density (ppi) is much smaller.

The picture is of a clock. Size is about 670X670 pixels. I cropped out this clock from a larger 12MP Raw format Nikon picture. The cropped out clock looks something like this (my real image is copyright protected but this is very similar with 700x644px):


(http://www.stanleylondon.com/ClockShipsBellSml1.jpg )

On the screen this picture should take up a fixed size of 170X170 pixels (ie about 10% of the monitor).

The first way I did this was to simply in Photoshop Elements save the 670X670 picture as a png and with dimensions 170X170 pixels. ("Save for web" to get it as small in size as possible and chose png and 170X170). Then I put the 170X170 pic on the background canvas. It looks very nice. However, when I zoomed in the numbers and other details look very jagged or blurry.

So now I tried with the larger resolution 670X670px. I put this on the background too, and as it should only take up 170X170px, I clicked it and dragged to resize it. But this picture looks much worse than the 170X170 pic. I suppose the 170X170 pic perfectly fits the 170X170 space while the 670X670px is distorted. I mean, for the 170X170 pic there will be one pixel for each monitor point. When I do the exact same comparison on a 21 inch 1920X1080 monitor they look equally good, so it must be due to the low pixel density of the 48 inch monitor where the human eye can see each pixel.

However, now when I zoom in the details for the 670X670px were clearly visible.

I tried a few other resoultions like 360X360 and 270X270 (I resized the 670X670 pic to these sizes) and both png and jpeg. They also looked worse in normal view but of course in zoomed view they displayed more details than the 170X170 pic.

My dilemma now is how to get an image that will look good both when zoomed in and when in 100% zoom (normal view) on this large screen. Is there a way to do this. Eg like resizing to a resolution larger than 170X170 that will also look good in normal view.

Thanks.

So i thought i was seeing things yesterday until it happened again just now.
i'm doing was doing a conversion to bw in nik software and i noticed yesterday that in the darker area in the sky i was seeing some color cast and or horizontal banding(PS6)
i clicked on the the bottom to view doc profile and i looked back at the color cast and it was gone. i just closed the image and reopened it from LR and its back. Yesterday for no apparent reason it would change from a colorcast/banding to a correct color. i don't ever see the issue when viewing in LR3
any ideas of why this may be happening. i've never noticed it before. i'm using a new dell U2711 ultrasharp calibrated monitor.

I recently got a third monitor for my extended desktop, and I currently have a Razer/Green & Black theme for my setup. I have a Razer keyboard, mouse, and mouse pad. And this is currently my desktop:



I don't like the left or middle screen much, and I was hoping someone could do some editing and make me a better wallpaper. Any help would be appreciated, and I would be willing to pay a fair price for a cool triple monitor wallpaper (I think the resolution needs to be 5760 x 1080). I'll post a couple images that I like, and that could be included in the wallpaper.





If anyone would be willing to help, feel free to get creative and use whatever images you like or think would make the wallpaper look cool. Thanks again to anyone who can help me.

Hello everyone. So I've been running PS6 off my laptop for quite sometime and its just not enough. I'm looking to do a desktop PC build specifically for PS and AI. I already have a nice 27" Benq Monitor.
I was wondering what you guys might reccomend part wise. Such as Ram Memory, Mouse & Keyboard, graphix card etc etc. Any recommendations is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I am trying to replace the background color of the image below. I am using the replace color tool. I use the first eyedropper tool to select the color. Then the second eyedropper+ tool to select the shaded area. I use a fuzziness of 50-70. I enter the replacement color using a color code. The color is replaced, however the final result is a slight different color than the color code I enter. When I check the end result using the eyedropper tool, I can see a different color code. Why does this happen? What other method can I use to replace the color with a specific color? Thanks

what is the best way to find which color on one picture is closest to some palette of color shade?anything better than color range tool with tolerance?

I am going to re-paint my motorcycle and I dont know which color I should color it. Thats why I am looking for a person with some color-eye which can help me decide the color. I will pay 30$ for the best image. I want to color the wheels, plastic parts (idk. The name in English but the "Covers") and the metal parts bars etc. Ofc. You can also edit other parts which you think would