Adobe gammma doesn't work on LCD monitors

I had a problem printing my digital photos on my Canon S800. My prints were very different from what I saw on my notebook monitor. From reviews, I was told that I had to calibrate my monitor and Adobe Photoshop has Adobe Gamma that can help match what I print with what I see on my monitor. But from the instructions on how to use Adobe Gamma, it says it doesn't work on LCD monitors. That's really helpful because I only have a notebook with a LCD monitor. In that case, are there other ways on calibrating my monitor?

Thanks

Gerard

the problem with lcd displays is that their appearance is highly dependent on viewing angle, visual contrast can vary wildly

if you adjust gamma if will only look as you set it for a narrow viewing angle, and if you are close to the display the apparent gamma will vary from top to bottom

some displays also have visible colour shifts as viewing angle changes, although this is not such an issue on modern high quality displays; backlight colour often shifts as it warms up, maybe also as it ages

apple's mac osx allows a basic icc profile to be created to allow overall gamma (not gamma for each channel) and white point to be set - i find this gives a better result than their default generic lcd profile - and this is what i use on my ti book - i once tried adobe gamma but the resulting profile was unusable

i've trained myself to use a particular viewing distance/angle when evaluating the display image to see if it is 'right' before i print, the colour is pretty well matched but if i get the position wrong i'll see it too light/dark compared to how it will print

but when matching display to print is important then using a good, calibrated, crt display is the solution

Hello Gerard,

Colorvision makes a calibrating tool for LCD monitors but I'm not sure if it works with all LCD monitors. I know on my lap top I can't find a a contrast adjustment at all for it. Are they all the same? I know my monitor compresses the top and bottom portions of the levels about 20% so the middle of the image looks good but the whites and shadows block up. I can get a fairly decent image by using numbers in photoshop and when I view them at work with my calibrated monitor, they look good.

Can you run a separate crt off your laptop? Not sure about Spyder calibrating a second monitor but i think I heard something about it not working. Maybe Adobe gamma woudl work with running a crt off the laptop.

Good luck.

Laurin

Can you add a CRT to the laptop?

Gerard Chee said:

I had a problem printing my digital photos on my Canon S800. My
prints were very different from what I saw on my notebook monitor.
From reviews, I was told that I had to calibrate my monitor and
Adobe Photoshop has Adobe Gamma that can help match what I print
with what I see on my monitor. But from the instructions on how to
use Adobe Gamma, it says it doesn't work on LCD monitors. That's
really helpful because I only have a notebook with a LCD monitor.
In that case, are there other ways on calibrating my monitor?

Thanks

Gerard

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