Yeah - so, new monitors suck. After I meticulously worked on the brightness and contrast levels to FINALLY have a properly calibrated monitor, the computer went ape sh*t on me and decided that I should look at everything in contrasty black and white.
WHAT?!?!!?
So, I ended up breaking down (after working on the problem for the last week) and buying a Spyder2Express. The S2E (as I like to call it... well, not really) is a monitor calibrator. You plug it in, set the little eye dohickey on the screen of the monitor and let it do it's thing.
10 minutes later - perfectly calibrated monitor!
Good side - now prints are dead on all the time.
Bad side - $70 for the S2E that I'll use maybe twice.
Hey, anyone wanna buy a used monitor calibrator?
Related Tags: photoshop, monitor, icc, profile, color, calibration, spyder, new, tools
Showing posts with label color. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color. Show all posts
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
New tools bring more work in the long run
Hey all - I've been hammering away at wrapping my head around Color Workspaces.
"What are Color Workspaces?", you ask? Well, basically they are Satan.
You see, I got a new monitor for Christmas - a sleek 19 inch, lcd wide screen bohemeth. (It actually allows me to work AND watch movies at the same time!!!) It rocks! Yet...
I have been noticing that since replacing my old, clunky monitor I have been having problems with color correction and have traced it to the calibration of my monitor in relation to photoshop. Here is an example of the problems I've been running into:
The "problem" picture - after saving it in photoshop it dulled out and lost a lot of it's appeal.
The fixed version - much more "poppy"
This is the result of the Color Workspace profiles - the first is Adobe 1998; the second is sRGB. Basically, Adobe RGB is preferred by pros because it keeps all of the color information in the file. Unfortunately, for output - it stinks. You get washed out colors on the web as well as on prints made at the photomat. sRGB is much better with the wow factor for displaying on webpages and print photography, but much of the color information is sacrificed.
So, what am I to do? I'm still trying to figure out if my editorial work is affected by the profiles - the images are converted into CMYK (which is another ball of wax altogether) and shouldn't make a difference... but with Photoshop you never can tell.
More as I figure it out...
Related Tags: photoshop, profiles, color, problems, web, portrait, photography, monitor, lcd
"What are Color Workspaces?", you ask? Well, basically they are Satan.
You see, I got a new monitor for Christmas - a sleek 19 inch, lcd wide screen bohemeth. (It actually allows me to work AND watch movies at the same time!!!) It rocks! Yet...
I have been noticing that since replacing my old, clunky monitor I have been having problems with color correction and have traced it to the calibration of my monitor in relation to photoshop. Here is an example of the problems I've been running into:
The "problem" picture - after saving it in photoshop it dulled out and lost a lot of it's appeal.
The fixed version - much more "poppy"This is the result of the Color Workspace profiles - the first is Adobe 1998; the second is sRGB. Basically, Adobe RGB is preferred by pros because it keeps all of the color information in the file. Unfortunately, for output - it stinks. You get washed out colors on the web as well as on prints made at the photomat. sRGB is much better with the wow factor for displaying on webpages and print photography, but much of the color information is sacrificed.
So, what am I to do? I'm still trying to figure out if my editorial work is affected by the profiles - the images are converted into CMYK (which is another ball of wax altogether) and shouldn't make a difference... but with Photoshop you never can tell.
More as I figure it out...
Related Tags: photoshop, profiles, color, problems, web, portrait, photography, monitor, lcd
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