Forum: Photography

Subject: Monitor Color Calibration Help (How does this look)

randyrives opened this issue on Jul 20, 2005 ยท 9 posts

randyrives posted Wed, 20 July 2005 at 12:28 PM

How does this photo look? OK? Washed Out? Too Dark? Strange Color? I have calibrated my Monitor and I am not sure that it is setup correctly. Thanks for the help.

azy posted Wed, 20 July 2005 at 12:35 PM

what was the iso set at

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randyrives posted Wed, 20 July 2005 at 12:37 PM

Does this one look better? Or Worse?

randyrives posted Wed, 20 July 2005 at 12:47 PM

azy - 1600 or 3200

azy posted Wed, 20 July 2005 at 2:13 PM

The 2nd one looks better, but I think the noise of the high iso might be the problem, as noise was the first thing I thought of when looking at the photo rather than colour IMHO So I ran the 1st though noise ninja and then adjusted the levels, what do you think

Eggiwegs! I would like... to smash them!

TomDart posted Wed, 20 July 2005 at 6:32 PM

The second one look best to me, considering all the color there. Saturation is strong but pleasing.

randyrives posted Thu, 21 July 2005 at 2:58 PM

azy - Looks good. Tom - Thanks. The problem I am having is after doing the monitor calb. My screen shows things as washed out. In Photoshop everything looks good. When I get prints made at Wal-Mart the prints match more of what I see in photoshop, so that is what I want. But if I post to the web or view outside photoshop everything looks washed out. So now it is like I am going to have to have 2 files one for web one for print. I have turned off Adobe Gamma correction, or at least I think I have. Any tips would be very much appreciated.

TwoPynts posted Thu, 21 July 2005 at 3:22 PM

Attached Link: Mastering Digital Color

Here is an article from Popular Photography that might help. I had a similar problem and found changing my Photoshop Color Settings.. for RGB to Monitor RGB, solved the problem. I think there was another setting somewhere that let me select web RGB, but I can't find that control panel right now. Hope that help and BTW, my output is still color correct for print. And your second image looks good. :)

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations

cbender posted Mon, 25 July 2005 at 7:34 AM

that article seems to be cool :) have to check it further... :) thanks folks...!