RE: Calibration Mania
RE: Calibration Mania
- Subject: RE: Calibration Mania
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:13:47 -0400
Deb,
I feel your pain.
First, you have to rule out the instrument. So I suggest you find anyone
among your friend who's willing to let you try calibrating their monitor
using your i1pro. Try using iMatch 3.6 -- costs nothing. If you get a green
cast using the iMatch+i1pro combination, then you can start suspecting the
i1pro. Time to send it to Mr.X-Rite. Not very expensive, I'm told. If you
don't get the green cast then you can start suspecting something else going
on in your PC. Ideally, when you go over to your friend's studio or house, I
suggest you also bring along your Eizo and try running ColorNavigator from
there. That should help rule out the monitor out of the equation. As was
pointed out earlier by the other list members, watch what loads at startup
on your system. I sometimes have more than one monitor calibration software
installed on my PC so it's not uncommon that I get more than one calibration
loader cascading at startup, trying to load their calibration curves in the
video memory one after the other. Easy to fix though. Ideally, you would
want to have a disk you could boot from that only has Windows on it, so that
you can test, unequivocally, that when you install and run whatever monitor
calibration package you care to run with your i1pro, on your Eizo, and know
for sure where is the culprit. I know it's hard to bite the bullet at some
point to face a complete system re-install (haven't we all better things to
do in life?) but that's what Norton Ghost is about -- or some similar
utility, like TimeMachine on the Mac. When I make a new PC install, the
first thing I do, after I know the system is runing fine and I have my virus
protection program under the belly, with, say the CreativeSuite running
well, activated and all, is to create a disk image of my system at that
point. Then I start installing the other apps I use, like MS-Office, and
make incremental disk images one after the other. It's not perfect but it
offers the chance of backtracking if something goes awry. Even after months.
BTW, you could also ask one of your friend to bring along their monitor, so
that you could also rule out your video card out of the equation.
Best / Roger
> -----Original Message-----
> From: colorsync-users-bounces+graxx=email@hidden
> [mailto:colorsync-users-bounces+graxx=email@hidden] On
> Behalf Of D. Bauer
> Sent: 24 août 2010 14:01
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: Calibration Mania
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've been calibrating my moniter for a while now without any problems.
> Nowadays no amount of calibrating will remove the green cast that has set
> in. I've been trying to resolve it unsuccesfully for quite some time now
> without any progress.
>
> How can I narrow it down to what is actually causing the problem? I
suspect
> the problem started when I changed the lighting in the room. I use an
> eyeone pro and when ambient light is checked the profile created reflects
> the light temp.
> (not sure if I'm right about that). Being an eizo monitor I tried their
software
> without doing any ambient light checks but it gives me the same green
cast.
>
>
> Is there an old profile embedded somewhere causing the trouble?
> Has my colorimeter seen better days and needs to be replaced?
> Should I try the adobe gamma utility?
> Is my monitor making trouble?
>
> Everything I've done so far to figure out the problem has just made me
more
> confused. I've printed a sample picture, scanned it and viewed it on two
> different screens. The result didn't really shed much light because at
this
> point I'm not sure what profile did what to the original picture.
>
>
> I am running Windows XP and I have a Nvidia Quadro FX580 Graphics Card
> and an Eizo CG241W running mostly Photoshop.
>
> Any help will be tremendously appreciated.
>
> Deb Bauer
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