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The best/cheapest way to calibrate your monitor using adobe Gamma, or your video card's calibration software, is to calibrate monitor to your prints.
First, print a picture as directly from the camera as possible. This usually means a jpeg with no post-processing. The photo should have a good range of colors. Enable Print Image Matching, if possible. Print on your printer's recommended glossy paper at the best setting. Now, bring up the monitor adjustment s/w or Adobe gamma, and ignore the instructions . Use the step-by-step setting, and make the monitor look like the print. Your pints will now look like the monitor and vice-versa. Since the print was initially done with P-I-M, which is how most commercial printers work, you should also get very good color matching from a lab as well. Using this method, I am able to take a photo, print it, and compare it to the original subject as well as the monitor, and have excellent color match. brian |
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VTphotog wrote:
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This process is also heavily dependant on the lighting used to illuminate the printed image while you attempt to match the monitor to it. But VTphotog's procedure is a good one, and if you've got some time, you might want to try it. |
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Thanks guys!
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