piccolo_909 opened this issue on Oct 03, 2012 · 36 posts
cspear posted Thu, 04 October 2012 at 6:39 AM
If you're using a CRT monitor, you MUST calibrate and profile it regularly, at least once a month. As it's likely to be quite old now, once a week is probably more like it. I do extremely colour-critical work; when I used CRTs I calibrated and profiled daily.
A hardware profiling solution (e.g. the Spyder mentioned above) is a must. Make sure to let the monitor run for at least 20 minutes to warm up and stabilise. Your target settings should be 2.2 gamma, D65, 120 to 160 cd/Msq; ignore whatever the software recommends, rubbish that gets posted by half-wits in forums or stuff that you once read in a 10 year old book.
These days I use LCD NEC Reference monitors which I calibrate and profile weekly. Your sample images are tagged with an sRGB profile so I'm getting an accurate idea of what the images look like. The only ones I can provide meaningful comments on are B and C: C looks right, B doesn't.
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