Image Monitor Check - Need Opinion

John Gaddy

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Especially from you guys that really know your monitor is spot on correct. I have been fighting some profiling issues and think I have it but would love to here some feedback.

This image looks pretty correct on my side. Does it on yours?

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Them Trinitron I'm using now isn't profiled, but it is extremely close (sRGB). The tone and color of your photo seem virtually perfect to me.

FWIW, here's a test JPG that I picked up somewhere on the Web about five years ago. After getting accustomed to how it should look over a period of time, I can now tell instantly whether monitors and printers are sufficiently accurate for my purpose. It's a great tool when I'm travelling or checking out a minilab before printing a batch of images. This is the full size image:

http://jackandkelly.zenfolio.com/img/v14/p185961251.jpg

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Calibrated Eizo CG243W, here.

There's a very, VERY light magenta cast.

It still looks great to my taste, though.

PK

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hello - the image colour is excellent on my nec 2690 profiled with nec's spectraview.
nice shot as well with perhaps just a tad more contrast needed.
all the best
jim partlo
 
I agree with another poster, I see a magenta cast as well.
My monitor is a EIZO ColorEdgeCG210 & I calibrate it with an EYE1 display2.
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I see a slight magenta cast, especially noticeable in the grey background. This is with a Viewsonic Professional Series P815 CRT, Spyder2 calibrated. Monitor purchased 3 years ago for $50 and still working great.
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NEC 2490UXi here.

When I first looked at the image, I also thought that it had a magenta cast. However, I think that the bold color of the outfit is fooling our eyes. I saved the file so I could open it in Photoshop. When I expanded the image so that all I was looking at on the screen was the gray background it looked fine with no magenta cast. The eyedropper confirmed the neutral gray color.

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I too think that your image is a bit on the magenta / bluish sides.

I made slight color corrections to the image for comparison.
 
The perception of color, even on a "Platonically perfect" monitor is, of course, entirely subjective, so my judgment as to how it looks is not the final word on this, no matter how great may be my monitor or experience.

My monitor is a 30" NEC 3090, calibrated with NEC's SpectraView II and their proprietary color meter. The background gray paper looks slightly magenta to me as well. The child is a different story. She looks fine, but would probably still look fine with the overall color adjusted to yield a more neutral gray on the background as well.

Anyway, to more precisely dispense with your question, in Photoshop's RGB info panel, a random spot on the mid-left side of the paper reads 58,55,62. This means, among other ways of interpreting it, that the paper is more red, and especially more blue, than a true neutral gray. To correct for that, you'd have to adjust the image with just a tiny bit of cyan and just a little more yellow than that. But, one must also ask, what is the actual color of the paper? No-seam paper is rarely spot-on neutral gray, so these measurements merely give you a good clue as to the "trueness" of your color balance.

As for my taste, yes, I'd like to see just a bit more yellow in the image more than anything else, but too much will spoil the girl's skin tone. As far as adding cyan is concerned, unless the subject's complexion has that ugly red skin blotching characteristic of many off-color digital people pictures, go real easy. Just a little too much cyan can turn what looks like a healthy girl into a sickly-looking one. And the young lady's complexion already looks fairly good in your example.

Last, don't forget when shooting people and judging clothing color, that some fabrics, due to the dyes used to color them, may phosphoresce when exposed to some wavelengths of light, so that no one color balance can get both that particular fabric and other picture elements such as skin, to look balanced with just one overall setting; locally selected areas may often need to be changed differently than the overall color.

Good luck,
David
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On my calibrated HP LP2475W the skin tone looks good. I'd maybe tweak curves just a tiny bit to give the shadows some additional depth.

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Sorry to bump an old thread but I am looking to buy this monitor. Can it be properly calibrated using an 'Eye one display' calibration tool, and can all the colours be individually adjusted. I can't see anything in the specs which indicate that it can.
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Sorry to bump an old thread but I am looking to buy this monitor. Can it be properly calibrated using an 'Eye one display' calibration tool, and can all the colours be individually adjusted. I can't see anything in the specs which indicate that it can.
Well, some people say it can, but I could not. I had to sell my eye-one and get the Spyder 3 Elite. After that it was fast and easy. I suspect it is the wide gamut that is responsible. There were some long threads about this in the PC talk forum when I and other tried to figure this out.

Earthlight

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