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Monitor Calibration ? --- The Best Way ?
- Thread starter Golpesar
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Buy a calibrator. Best way there is. 
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would you please tell me how I can calibrate my monitor?
I'd like to know the best way to do that.
My photos look very different on two monitors and I don't know which
one is right one!
need your help plz. thanks
GaryDeM
Veteran Member
as above suggestion, buy a calibrator. it is the only sure way to get good repeatable results.
i have been using the following product for several yrs, it works. it is not fancy and does not have the sall the bells and whistles of the more expensive units but it does the job of calibrating the monitor. results excellant. current price=$79.
http://spyder.datacolor.com/product-mc-s2e.php
note before calibrating the monitor-make sure you have no direct light shining on the monitor, room lights are the way you normally use the pc, and you have removed the adobe gamma loader from startup(for more on adobe gamma loader see next reply). also, you have to adjust the monitor brightness and contrast to the specs that the calibrator wants. if your monitor is lcd, it comes from the factory running in a too bright manner. you need to adjust the brightness to somewhere in the 110-120lumes area or what the calibrator specs want.
i have been using the following product for several yrs, it works. it is not fancy and does not have the sall the bells and whistles of the more expensive units but it does the job of calibrating the monitor. results excellant. current price=$79.
http://spyder.datacolor.com/product-mc-s2e.php
note before calibrating the monitor-make sure you have no direct light shining on the monitor, room lights are the way you normally use the pc, and you have removed the adobe gamma loader from startup(for more on adobe gamma loader see next reply). also, you have to adjust the monitor brightness and contrast to the specs that the calibrator wants. if your monitor is lcd, it comes from the factory running in a too bright manner. you need to adjust the brightness to somewhere in the 110-120lumes area or what the calibrator specs want.
GaryDeM
Veteran Member
if you already did the following before calibration ignore. This is for windows xp.
before calibration- right click on start/explore. then look at user names, you will probably have administrator and yours and default and all and ???. go to startmenu/programs/startup. click on startup-look at right half of screen(window). is adobe gamma loader there? if yes, right click drag and hold and drag to desktop. make folder on desktop called startup to put that icon in. you can also drag any other icons that you do not wish to have starting on startup out as well. do this for ALL user names, you could have startup folders in each one, and you do not know which startup folder the loader is in.
adobe gamma loader overrides any calibration. you should do the above before any calibration. if you did it now redo calibration. i assume you set the monitor to the requires specs as stated in your calibration instructions before you did any calibrating.
you should also check msconfig. there could be an entry for the loader there.
before calibration- right click on start/explore. then look at user names, you will probably have administrator and yours and default and all and ???. go to startmenu/programs/startup. click on startup-look at right half of screen(window). is adobe gamma loader there? if yes, right click drag and hold and drag to desktop. make folder on desktop called startup to put that icon in. you can also drag any other icons that you do not wish to have starting on startup out as well. do this for ALL user names, you could have startup folders in each one, and you do not know which startup folder the loader is in.
adobe gamma loader overrides any calibration. you should do the above before any calibration. if you did it now redo calibration. i assume you set the monitor to the requires specs as stated in your calibration instructions before you did any calibrating.
you should also check msconfig. there could be an entry for the loader there.
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