Colorvision duel sreen windows ???

I was wondering if it was yet possible to photocal on both sreens on ndows XP or if we are still limited to the primarry monitor.

Has anybody found a work around.

My problem is that i have Dell M60 worksation laptop and it will only let me have the laptop srenn as my primarry scree.

I have a 20" dell lcd atached as my secondary which is where i do all may work in photoshop.

Thanks

KAI

The beta version of Optical supports dual head set up [meaning you have to have either two graphics card or dual head cards such as matrox P series]. You can email color vision and request the link for their beta version.

I've been using it to calibrate my 21" CRT and 17" LCD, and am really satisfied with the result. My EIZO LCD [very expensive] still cannot match the color accuracy of my trinitron, but it comes close.

Colovision is supposed to release the dual head version soon. It will be worth the wait.

Solo

kai hopf said:

I was wondering if it was yet possible to photocal on both sreens
on ndows XP or if we are still limited to the primarry monitor.

Has anybody found a work around.

My problem is that i have Dell M60 worksation laptop and it will
only let me have the laptop srenn as my primarry scree.

I have a 20" dell lcd atached as my secondary which is where i do
all may work in photoshop.

Thanks

KAI

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Hi!

I've spent more time than I intended trying to set up dual displays on XP.

My understanding is that OptiCal 3.7.8 will only let you calibrate the "primary display".

Color Management, Dual Displays and Windows XP seems really shaky - If I go in under Display Properties - Settings and select my primary display, go to Advanced and Color Management, it will tell me that "Current Monitor" is "Default Monitor" and that a profile is associated. That's fine.

If I go back and select my secondary display, Advanced - Color Management will STILL tell me that my current monitor is "Default Monitor" and that a (the same) profile is associated.

Maybe I'm stupid or ignorant (or both), but this seems wrong to me...

If this really means that the same profile is associted to both displays, it might do the trick for you - calibrate using your secondary display and pretend that it is your primary. The profile will then be associted to both, but it will be correct only for the secondary.

I'm on Windows XP SP1, don't know if this has been improved in SP2.

PLEASE do let me know if I've misunderstood something very fundamental here - all help or pointers to help will be much appreciated. (You could go Mac for less ;-)

Regards
niklas

kai hopf said:

I was wondering if it was yet possible to photocal on both sreens
on ndows XP or if we are still limited to the primarry monitor.

Has anybody found a work around.

My problem is that i have Dell M60 worksation laptop and it will
only let me have the laptop srenn as my primarry scree.

I have a 20" dell lcd atached as my secondary which is where i do
all may work in photoshop.

Thanks

KAI

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That is good news!

Do you know if it requires XP SP2 - I'm a bit reluctant to go there, now that all applications work...

niklas

Solo said:

I've been using it to calibrate my 21" CRT and 17" LCD, and am
really satisfied with the result. My EIZO LCD [very expensive]
still cannot match the color accuracy of my trinitron, but it comes
close.

Colovision is supposed to release the dual head version soon. It
will be worth the wait.

Solo

kai hopf said:

I was wondering if it was yet possible to photocal on both sreens
on ndows XP or if we are still limited to the primarry monitor.

Has anybody found a work around.

My problem is that i have Dell M60 worksation laptop and it will
only let me have the laptop srenn as my primarry scree.

I have a 20" dell lcd atached as my secondary which is where i do
all may work in photoshop.

Thanks

KAI

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Mac has better support for color managment on multiple monitors. They have a separate profile for each monitor.

Windows in general only supports one profile for the monitor / monitors.

For a system with multiple monitors, it is technically possible to build one profile that includes all of the data for both monitors. I understand that it is not an easy task, but it sounds like OptiCal may have figured out how to do it.

I do not think that this has anything to do with SP2.

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kai hopf said:

I was wondering if it was yet possible to photocal on both sreens
on ndows XP or if we are still limited to the primarry monitor.

Has anybody found a work around.

My problem is that i have Dell M60 worksation laptop and it will
only let me have the laptop srenn as my primarry scree.

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So what happens if you setup your laptop to mirror output to your external screen? Can you calibrate the second screen, and after you enable multiple monitors apply your original profile to just monitor 1 as a workaround?
-Mike

No. SP1 should be fine.
I just upgraded to SP2 and everything works as it should.

Niklas Ferm said:

Do you know if it requires XP SP2 - I'm a bit reluctant to go
there, now that all applications work...

niklas

Solo said:

I've been using it to calibrate my 21" CRT and 17" LCD, and am
really satisfied with the result. My EIZO LCD [very expensive]
still cannot match the color accuracy of my trinitron, but it comes
close.

Colovision is supposed to release the dual head version soon. It
will be worth the wait.

Solo

kai hopf said:

I was wondering if it was yet possible to photocal on both sreens
on ndows XP or if we are still limited to the primarry monitor.

Has anybody found a work around.

My problem is that i have Dell M60 worksation laptop and it will
only let me have the laptop srenn as my primarry scree.

I have a 20" dell lcd atached as my secondary which is where i do
all may work in photoshop.

Thanks

KAI

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Mike that sounds like a good idea.

I will try it tomorrow. Seems that i coulf run the opereation twice once for the laptop screen once for the external LCD.

That way I can siple load the laptop profile when I am on a trip.

Thanks to all for you help.

Will post a reply when I have some results.

KAI

Mike Fried said:

kai hopf said:

I was wondering if it was yet possible to photocal on both sreens
on ndows XP or if we are still limited to the primarry monitor.

Has anybody found a work around.

My problem is that i have Dell M60 worksation laptop and it will
only let me have the laptop srenn as my primarry scree.

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So what happens if you setup your laptop to mirror output to your
external screen? Can you calibrate the second screen, and after you
enable multiple monitors apply your original profile to just
monitor 1 as a workaround?
-Mike

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Hi all,

I've the spider from colorvision with Photocal 2.7.

To calibrate two screen, you need to calibrate the main as usual.

After that, you restart the photocal, and when the first windows appears, you drag it to the other screen.
You do the whole process, save the file with another name (ex: screen_b)

After that, right-click on the desktop,
choose property from the menu
choose the 'settings' tab
select the second screen and push the advanced button.
choose the 'Color Management' tabs
Press 'Add' button, and select the filename that you save (screen_b)
Select it as default with the button.

That's it.

Ragard's
--
Thierry S.

This procedere will only work, if you have two cards.Otherwise, your two monitors will use one and the same profile under Windows.

Of course, you can sill calibrate them separately (adress the LUT), but you cannot profile them separately.

Stefan

tse said:

Hi all,

I've the spider from colorvision with Photocal 2.7.

To calibrate two screen, you need to calibrate the main as usual.
After that, you restart the photocal, and when the first windows
appears, you drag it to the other screen.
You do the whole process, save the file with another name (ex:
screen_b)

After that, right-click on the desktop,
choose property from the menu
choose the 'settings' tab
select the second screen and push the advanced button.
choose the 'Color Management' tabs
Press 'Add' button, and select the filename that you save (screen_b)
Select it as default with the button.

That's it.

Ragard's
--
Thierry S.

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