Re: Starting from scratch
Re: Starting from scratch
- Subject: Re: Starting from scratch
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 00:20:44 EST
In a message dated 11/6/00 7:40:58 PM, email@hidden writes:
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My problem is this: even after resetting the display brightness and contrast
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to median values, trashing Photoshop 6, ColorSync, Monitor, and Opti*Cal
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Preferences, I still can't seem to get a satisfactory calibration.
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When displaying original scans of film scanned into Joe Holmes' Ektaspace
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(that looked fine before my calibration went wonky), reds and greens in
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particular seem way off the charts. I don't possess the vocabulary of color
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to describe in more detail my problem, but subsequent calibrations have
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not
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yielded an improvement.
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I've tried calibrating with Opti*Cal's expert mode, and I can nail my
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brightness and contrast targets to within a pixel of the target, but I'm
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at
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a loss to describe this "wild colors" behavior.
Try a canned profile for the monitor (or any similar monitor); if that is
wild too, then its the monitor, not the profile. If that looks okay, then you
may in fact be generating crazy profiles, and should send a copy of one to
ColorVision tech support for analysis.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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