Flat Screen Monitor Calibration

[Alex Hawley]

Got a new computer with a LCD flat screen monitor. Is there a website where the color calibration can be checked and adjusted? Right now, I think its a bit bright and has a blue tinge to it. I want tot try to get this thing close to some "nominal" to ensure my prints are displayed as best they can be on the web.

TIA

 

[domaz]

There are websites where you can check the gamma using a step wedge. I don't think there is any way to check color calibration though, short of buying a Spyder or something. That will help you get your monitored adjusted as best it can but there's still no guarantee your blue will match other people's blue.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Alex;

I use a Kodak color chart and a MacBeth. I scan them and calibrate so that they match visually to me in my room. Then I know that both my scanner and my monitor match the "real world" as I see it.

That is the best I ever do here.

PE

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Here's a page with color and gamma charts and lots of info about visual and mechanical methods of calibration--

http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html

I use a GretagMacbeth Eye-One Display 2 calibration device, and I use the gamma chart on this Norman Koren page to adjust the angle of the LCD screen on my laptop.

Before I got the Eye-One device, I found I could get pretty close with Quick Gamma, which is a visual calibration method. See the Koren page for a link to the free software, but the machine is more consistent.

 

[Alex Hawley]

Thanks guys, just what I needed. According to the chart on the link David provided, some tweaking is necessary, just as I thought.