Hi all, having some major trouble with getting colours on my monitor to look the same as on other peoples.
Last night I did some night photography at a local volkwagen meet. Sorted the pictures out and photoshopped a few of them a bit to remove small bushes in the background so it looked completely black dark. The pictures looked fantastic on my computer, but people have said they can see all dodgy black lines and the pictures look crap on their computer!
So I went on the laptop and checked it on there and the images look completely different. Far too light and you can make out where Ive went over little bits in the black background.
An example is this picture:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y20/jamie_pyrite/Durham%20Dubs%20Meet%2023-07-2008/246_IMG_6040PPDd.jpg)
On my computer, it looks great. Right light settings, nice and dark background.. But on the laptop it looks terrible.
How can I fix this? Ive read to save in sRGB, which I have done using the Save for Web & Devices feature in Photoshop and it just looked the same! Ive properly set my monitors up a few times too..
I see what they mean its directly above all the cars then getting smaller as it reaches the top.
Unsure how to fix it :)
Is that burners Polo at the end? If so I really dont like those wheels on his car, BRING BACK THE PIMP MULTI SPOKES!
Just played around with all my monitor settings for ages and still no difference.. Anyone got any ideas?
Yeah its burners polo.. Theyre just a temporary measure until he sorts some new ones out.
what make is your screen ?
I dont really know anything about them, but I have a .png you can use to "test" them.... if it looks good then the screen is fine... if it looks crap then the screen is crap :(
pm me youre email address and Ill send it :)
There was a device you could use to sample the screen colour and feed it into the computer to correct it. Cant remember what its called though.
Quote from: knightywhat make is your screen ?
I dont really know anything about them, but I have a .png you can use to "test" them.... if it looks good then the screen is fine... if it looks crap then the screen is crap :(
pm me youre email address and Ill send it :)
I have two LG Flatron L1953S monitors.
Pmd :)
ignore me, i see its durham dubs from the image.
Matt
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=948496
The corado looks nice :)
The corrado is very nice.. very very nice!
Completely rebuilt, with a VR6 turbo in it.. all made to OCDish perfection!
egg: Thanks for the link, but it appears to just be for HD-DVD and Blu-ray players?
the screen is too dark and doesnt have enug hcontrqst,
Indeed, you want to go away and try calibrating your monitor.
Big black lines here on my Dell.
I recently got a Pantone Huey for calibrating my monitors. Seems to do a reasonable job although I havent fully got my head around the whole thing yet.
£65 from Dabs.
Theres little you can do. Everyones monitor is different.
I can see the shopped blobby thing in the background and, yes, it ruins an otherwise good photo. It used to be a lot worse years ago when Macs had a different screen gamma to Windows machines (1.8 vs 2.2). Thankfully, Macs have now fallen into line with PCs and I believe they now use 2.2.
:)
Im currently e-mailing LG Support and Ive been passed to 2nd line support.. Who Im still waiting a reply from!
Doubt itll get me anywhere though. It makes my twin monitor setup useless considering I bought the two for using with photography, etc. Ive had to resort to using photoshop and my crap old laptop
On a 17" Dell here and can see the bodged photoshopping, otherwise a lovely pic
So Ive been waiting for the 2nd line LG Support to get back to me for a while now! Doubt Im going to have much luck!!
Ive just noticed that when restarting my computer, it shows the colours correctly for a few seconds..
Ill load windows up, and then log in to my account. Once it gets in and shows me the desktop before loading everything up, my wallpaper (one of the pictures of the cars I took) and you can see the bodged bits, etc. on it.. But then something kicks in and it all goes back to nice black where I cant see it!
Ive tried disabling a few things including Ultramon from the Startup but it still does the same thing.
Any ideas? If I can find a way to just disable it kicking in..
could be loading adobe gamma ( in control panel if photoshop to to cs2) or the colour management kicking in, check in display properties, then (if in xp choose last tab) then advanced then colour management .
yeah, Id say that sounds like a colour profile too...
(right click on the desktop, properties, settings tab, advanced, colour management)
The colour profiles was one of the first things I checked unfortunately! Ive tried about 10 different profiles that Ive found and none seem to have any difference (just by setting one as default then clicking Apply..)
Would I have to restart the pc with the new profile applied to see any changes?