Anyone know any good software for calibrating screens in terms of colour, brightness, saturation, gamma, geometry etc? TFT or CRT.

Eagle, Im looking in your direction :mrgreen:

Can you calibrate screens this way?

As I expect you will need something that you can attach to your screen, so that it can read the colours, I know my mate who does graphics has one of these on his MAC, which he sticks to his screen and then it auto adjusts the colour profile.

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Im positive you can without external hardware.

You can get DVDs that do the same for calibrating seperate players and TVs screens, they just use a series of graded colour screens and greyscale and such, and shape patterns to do geometry etc.

Im sick of working on overly bright TFTs people have with piss poor colour, so Im going to start calibrating them for them.

You cant do web design when two screens sat next to each other display totally different colours.

Adobe Gamma does it (part of ps) and Samsung panels have magictune so yeah its possible. I remember there being an online one somewhere but I cant find it.

edit: http://sharkysoft.com/misc/gamma/

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http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=monitor+calibration+online&meta=

My conclusion so far is that TFTs are sh*te, and my CRT monitor is awesome in contrast and colour, as suspected.

Good site:

http://www.displaycalibration.com/

I had my brightness ever so slightly too low, other than that my settings are spot on

Now to correct the support office when Im there again...


Oh and Id still like something to test screen geometry if there is such a thing.

Ive just bought a Spyder2 Suite but I cant be arsed calibrating it just yet.  DELLs are often pretty much bang-on outta the box anyway.

That looks a little expensive for my own satisfaction. Its the support office computers that are the problem, its all cheap TFTs and they look shocking, colours dont even begin to resemble one another on the different screens.

Cheap TFTs will always look a bit crap, especially older ones.

Geometry should be near as dammit if theyre running native res and unless youre doing CAD work it aint worth the effort to play with them.

Same with colours, if youre only doing email and stuff then it doesnt matter. If youre doing design work then raise a business case.  

Yeah thats a good point. I dont strictly do design work using them so its not such an issue most of the time, although it does crop up quite often when im there.

The geometry was for my own CRT monitor, although Ill have quick check through the settings on it, as it has a page for convergence, corner correction, etc.

dude get a hooded as different light conditions make pantone colours appear different through the day.

also http://www.computerarts.co.uk/reviews/hardware/other/studio_xr might be another option.

Quote from: Clockd 0NeMy conclusion so far is that TFTs are sh*te, and my CRT monitor is awesome in contrast and colour, as suspected.

Still using my Iiyama Vision master 21" monitor rather than the TFT alternative that is sitting beside it. Even though I could display the same resolution I am using on the other screen.