monitor calibration
17th-jul-2008 - posted by dtra
so i decided to get this monitor calibration device from datacolor, the spyder2 express, which is the bottom of the line model. basically you look at the back of the box, and everything is no, while the next model up has half yes, and the top of the line is all yes. anyway, i don't need anything fancy, i just want to make sure that the photos i want to print will look all right. it's a funny little thing (sensor) that you put over the monitor, then run the software which goes through a bunch of colour options to calibrate the monitor. i hope i did it right, i turned all the lights off, and let it go for about ten minutes.
my wallpapers look better, less of a green tint (when comparing the colour profiles) compared to the profile i did by squinting 
. too bad the cheapo version doesn't work with multiple monitors, so my macbook still has to use my squinty profile, but i'll get over it. all my pictures look pretty good, so that's a good thing, my squinty calibration isn't so bad, but obviously it's not good for the eyes.
of course i got it from adorama, cheaper and probably faster than ordering from australia. although i'm still confused by ups' shipping, it always says that it arrives in vic, then the next part says it's in sydney, then it says it's in victoria again, before it arrives. anyways, here's to having better colours in my pictures in the future, also i'll be getting my blurb book as soon as i've seen alf's one, and also getting my poster print in the next week or so too, so i'll post about those too (and some other stuff that i have been putting off).
pic taken from the datacolor web site.
#33 dtra (david tran)
Last edited at 8:14 17th-jul-2008
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