Calibration deliberation!

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Would love any advice on this...

I'm editing on a 17" laptop pc. which is fine for me. I've just got a new 22" Samsung monitor, this one....
http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/...or/LS22EMDKU/EN/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail
and it's hooked up to my laptop.

The colours on the new monitor are lousey, and no amount of tweaking has changed things!
My previously edited photos (edited on the laptop), look awful. The monitor came with a download link to some kind of profile that Photoshop won't even recognise!...(since deleted).
I've bit the bullet and ordered a Spyder 3 Pro calibrator. What I'm asking is.. do you think this will sort everything out? and is there anything I have to do before calibrating?, as far as the present monitor settings are concerned.

Thanks.
 
Right...I'm having to bump this, sorry!

The Spyder 3 Pro came today and I've calibrated the Samsung monitor.
I'm pretty sure I've followed everything to the letter (although it does ask if the monitor uses Kelvin sliders?....I can't seem to find anything in the monitor manual!)
The results?....bloody awful!
The screen is very cotrasty and colours very overly saturated. It's not just my photos but the whole operating system!
I've set the monitor settings to default.
I've assigned the new profile.

Any ideas before the monitor gets thrown out the back door!
 
Are you running the new monitor of your laptop? Ive no idea myself but deffo read somewhere that this wont work unless you have 2 graphics cards in your laptop.
 
Are you using the Samsung monitor on it's own or the Samsung monitor plus the laptop monitor together?
 
ukglyn said:
Are you running the new monitor of your laptop? Ive no idea myself but deffo read somewhere that this wont work unless you have 2 graphics cards in your laptop.
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you can only calibrate 2 screens at a time if you have a PCI-express graphics chipset. otherwise they have to use the same profile.

to the OP, have you updated the spyder software? the latest version helps you get the right brightness set up before calibration.
 
neil_g said:
you can only calibrate 2 screens at a time if you have a PCI-express graphics chipset. otherwise they have to use the same profile.
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Oh right I knew there was something like that, I brought a pantone huey to try to calibrate my laptop, but gave up with it after all the hassle I had, the colours were way over saturated, & all colours were different in cs3 to what they were in my browser.:shrug:
 
neil_g said:
to the OP, have you updated the spyder software? the latest version helps you get the right brightness set up before calibration.
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Yep, I did that from outset, It did ask me when I first ran it.
I'm connecting with hdml both ends....that's ok isn't it?
 
ukglyn said:
Oh right I knew there was something like that, I brought a pantone huey to try to calibrate my laptop, but gave up with it after all the hassle I had, the colours were way over saturated, & all colours were different in cs3 to what they were in my browser.:shrug:
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did you turn off adobbe gamma.
 
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