Screen Brightness Software

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Can anyone recommend something to lower the brightness of my screen, please? My monitor is calibrated, but I cannot lower the brightness enough to print effectively.
 
Sorry but this question is not clear.
One moment you talk about "screen" then "monitor" ?
What screen do you mean you C one?
If you set up you calibrated your monitor then you will have set the brightness and contrast when doing this.
Please explain more.
I am guess your prints are not looking like your monitor image if so this is more to do with understanding printers and profiles but that a different ball game
 
Chaz, the problem is this. The monitor is now calibrated, but the screen is still too bright. I'm using the profiles provided by DSCL. The first shots I had printed came back at least 1.5 stops dark. They suggest taking one of these shots and adjusting brightness on the monitor until they match, which seems obvious enough until you come to do so and the brightness doesn't go down that far. Basically, my LCD screen is too bright.
 
What monitor is it and what controls does it have? Have you got the gamma set the same between your calibration sw and OS?
 
You should have the ability to change the brightness and other parameters using the On Screen Display. A quick read of the instructions should tell you how to access them.

You state that your screen is calibrated. Usually part of the calibration process is to set the initial screen brightness, and contrast.

What calibration system are you using?

If you are not sure what brightness level to select, then if you have a choice then try between 120-140 Cd/M2. This should be selectable with most calibration software and spectrometers
 
Chappers said:
You should have the ability to change the brightness and other parameters using the On Screen Display. A quick read of the instructions should tell you how to access them.

As stated in my original post I set them to the lowest point available and it's still too bright.

You state that your screen is calibrated. Usually part of the calibration process is to set the initial screen brightness, and contrast.

What calibration system are you using?

Yes, the screen has been set, but still it's too bright when I compare the shots I've had printed with my on screen version. I used the basic Pantone Huey. as far as I can see it's completely automatic.

If you are not sure what brightness level to select, then if you have a choice then try between 120-140 Cd/M2. This should be selectable with most calibration software and spectrometers

I didn't get to choose, unfortunately.
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Really appreciate your help though, mate.
 
The23rdman said:
. What do you mean what controls? re gamma I don't know. How do I check what the OS is set to?
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When you do a calibration First you have to set your monitors settings the brightness and contrast you have a menu button on the front of the monitor Did you not set then when calibrating?
Are you embedding teh profile and checking it with proffing
 
Chaz Photos said:
When you do a calibration First you have to set your monitors settings the brightness and contrast you have a menu button on the front of the monitor Did you not set then when calibrating?
Are you embedding teh profile and checking it with proffing
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This is exactly the process I've used. First I tried to calibrate the monitor manually using the monitors controls and visual aids from the net. I couldn't with any degree of accuracy control the gamma so I gave that up as a bad job.

I then borrowed a Huey from a friend and used that yesterday. It's completely automatic. As I've said the screen is just too bright. It cannot though the monitor controls be lowered enough to get close to the prints I have had done from DSCL.

What do you by am I embedding the profile? Embedding it in what? It's set as my monitor profile. Do you mean in PS?
 
there are 2 sets of brightness (& contrast) controls for the screen. You've mentioned the one on the monitor, but there is also one on the video driver.

if its any of the MS windows OSs you can right click on the screen then have a look in the graphics settings
 
Wookie said:
there are 2 sets of brightness (& contrast) controls for the screen. You've mentioned the one on the monitor, but there is also one on the video driver.

if its any of the MS windows OSs you can right click on the screen then have a look in the graphics settings
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Thanks. Yeah, I checked that. Apart from making sure it's set to the Huey profile I have no control over it at all. It must be my archaic graphics card?

Should I be using the Huey working space profile for my editing now in PS as well?
 
Looks as though you've done everything right.

You should be using the monitor profile that the Huy produced as the default system profile. PS will pick that up automatically.

I don't know the Huey as I use the i-One device. Do you have a choice of screen brightness, or does it simply select the brightness for you.?
I had a problem monitor that wouldn't dim down enough fro me. I got round it by reducing the contrast level, to about 80%. This dropped the brightness enough to give me a good match, but I did recal the monitor after I made the adjustment.. It did give reasonable results.

Just as a suggestion, try contacting a lab that will supply you with a test image and print, just to eliminate any problems with your current lab.
 
Chappers said:
Looks as though you've done everything right.

You should be using the monitor profile that the Huy produced as the default system profile. PS will pick that up automatically.

Cheers.

I don't know the Huey as I use the i-One device. Do you have a choice of screen brightness, or does it simply select the brightness for you.?
I had a problem monitor that wouldn't dim down enough fro me. I got round it by reducing the contrast level, to about 80%. This dropped the brightness enough to give me a good match, but I did recal the monitor after I made the adjustment.. It did give reasonable results.

No, it's completely automatic. It's already set the contrast to 70%.

Just as a suggestion, try contacting a lab that will supply you with a test image and print, just to eliminate any problems with your current lab.

I'm waiting on some prices from my friend who lent me the Huey as he runs a small print operation. That would be the easiest way if he's good enough value.
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I had a similar problem with my new Dell 22" monitor - infact I wasn't able to calibrate it initially as it also was too bright.

Fortunately, as already mentioned, my graphics card (Nvidia) allows me to carry out adjustments in addition to those of the monitor so I was able to lower the default brightness setting via the graphic card driver.

The way forward is probably to upgrade your graphics card, shouldn't cost much and should solve the problem


Simon
 
Thanks, simon. It does look that way.
 
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