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Hi,
I've just recalibrated my monitor with Spyder3 Elite using the normal wizard thing and it has not done a good job at all.
Before calibration my monitor seemed pretty much spot on, as prints from various places came out almost nearly what I saw except maybe a couple of shadow areas sometimes suffering but not too much.
However, getting it 100% correct was of paramount importance, so did it all yesterday and now my screen is really really dark - any bodies photos i look at, if theres a shadow area its just pure black. Even people's like Joe Cornish's images, so its not a case of looking at another persons photo that has been edited on a uncalibrated monitor.
Using the following link:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/ARTS/MONCAL/CALIBRATE.HTM
In the blacks where the shades of black stop is square number 25....before calibration I had no issues what so ever viewing all of the squares!! The whites are somewhat better now though and I can see nearly all the squares where as before only the first 4 or 5.
Colours seem very unnatural now too - like Facebook isnt that vivid striking blue but now more of a deep sea blue. Google chrome doesn't look right, basically nothing does.
I calibrated in complete darkness, with overhead lights and in day light and none of these methods has solved the issue.
What is also funny to note - on the bit where it shows you an image before and after calibration, the image before looks miles better with loads more detail.
I use Windows 7 professional 64bit on a Toshiba Satellite A300-1BZ
To note I had a few issues getting the calibration tool to work in Windows 7 initially, which involved an uninstall of the whole program and drivers then making sure all files were deleted but this seemed to fix it.
I used all the default settings in Spyder3 that the Wizard suggested.
I really don't know where to go now? I fear I have lost my old calibration (or does a format solve it??) and won't get good prints from now on!
Any help appreciated.
James
I've just recalibrated my monitor with Spyder3 Elite using the normal wizard thing and it has not done a good job at all.
Before calibration my monitor seemed pretty much spot on, as prints from various places came out almost nearly what I saw except maybe a couple of shadow areas sometimes suffering but not too much.
However, getting it 100% correct was of paramount importance, so did it all yesterday and now my screen is really really dark - any bodies photos i look at, if theres a shadow area its just pure black. Even people's like Joe Cornish's images, so its not a case of looking at another persons photo that has been edited on a uncalibrated monitor.
Using the following link:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/ARTS/MONCAL/CALIBRATE.HTM
In the blacks where the shades of black stop is square number 25....before calibration I had no issues what so ever viewing all of the squares!! The whites are somewhat better now though and I can see nearly all the squares where as before only the first 4 or 5.
Colours seem very unnatural now too - like Facebook isnt that vivid striking blue but now more of a deep sea blue. Google chrome doesn't look right, basically nothing does.
I calibrated in complete darkness, with overhead lights and in day light and none of these methods has solved the issue.
What is also funny to note - on the bit where it shows you an image before and after calibration, the image before looks miles better with loads more detail.
I use Windows 7 professional 64bit on a Toshiba Satellite A300-1BZ
To note I had a few issues getting the calibration tool to work in Windows 7 initially, which involved an uninstall of the whole program and drivers then making sure all files were deleted but this seemed to fix it.
I used all the default settings in Spyder3 that the Wizard suggested.
I really don't know where to go now? I fear I have lost my old calibration (or does a format solve it??) and won't get good prints from now on!
Any help appreciated.
James
