Monitor calibration - a must for digital artists, great for games

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Calibrating your monitor is important because most monitors have a tendency to weaken certain color ranges and put too much emphasis on others. If you're an artist that works strictly on screen, it's not a *huge* issue, but it means that viewers will see different color ranges on their screen. For example, if your monitor has a strong green bias, you'll naturally compensate for that in your work. On other screens, the artwork show up with weak greens. On print, the results can be even worse since most people view colours similarly and don't have to rely on the interpretation provided by their video card/monitor.

For gaming, this is nice because it allows you to get more natural and realistic colours out of your games. It's realy something everyone should be doing


The reason I made this thread is because my Hyundai L90D+ LCD had slightly weak reds out of the box. Don't get me wrong, the screen is absolutely amazing, but I couldn't help but notice the weak reds. After a while of digging around and finding all sorts of pricey pieces of hardware, my friend sent me this freeware utility.

Did a great job for my screen and fixed up the reds. It should also do well for help darkening blacks on low end LCD's since deep blacks are something most lcd's have a hard time with.

Give the program a run. Post what you think of the results. It should be interesting to see if other people see a difference with this.

http://www.hex2bit.com/products/product_mcw.asp
 
I think it's pretty useless with laptops. Mine is already perfectly calibrated, anyway.
 
👍 I haven't tried it yet but it sounds like a nice little tool.

I've got a Samsung S13N (similar to your L90D i believe emad) and i won't complain about making it look even nicer :P I'll have a look when i get home from work :rolleyes:
 
My Samsung monitor comes with some Natural Color application to calibrate it and make custom monitor colour profiles. I didn't notice much difference afterwards though.

*shrug*
 
Shannon
My Samsung monitor comes with some Natural Color application to calibrate it and make custom monitor colour profiles. I didn't notice much difference afterwards though.

*shrug*
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That's the beauty of CRT's. They have been around for so long that the technology has been perfected. You'll rarely, if ever have to worry about poor colors on them 👍
 
I have an LG Flatron CRT monitor andit has a great picture, but I will be buying a new LCD monitor very soon.........any recommendations........I hear samsung is really good, also how are Sony's ones?
 
I've got a Sony 19" at home. It's very good. I have an HP 1702 17" at work, and it's OK, but not as good as the Sony.

The original purpose of monitor calibration was to allow the image on the monitor to match that in print. And in actuality, you should cross-calibrate all of your image acquiral/view/output devices with one of the established calibration methods, such as PANTONE or the KPCMS (Kodak Precision Colour Management System). This further comes about because printing and display use two fundamentally different methods of generating colour. Printing uses "subtraction", where the combination of primary colours (cyan, magenta, yellow and black - hence CMYK) makes the colour progressively darker as more and more light is subtracted from the reflection. In contrast, display uses "addition", where Red, Green and Blue are added together, progressively making the colour lighter as more and more light is added.

The colour management systems, of which PANTONE is the original and still dominant one, allow artists to adapt their equipment to a common standard, so my image that I create on my PANTONE-calibrated monitor will look the same on your PANTONE-calibrated monitor, and we won't get a nasty shock when we print 50,000 copies on the bureau's PANTONE printer.
 
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I have an LG Flatron CRT monitor andit has a great picture, but I will be buying a new LCD monitor very soon.........any recommendations........I hear samsung is really good, also how are Sony's ones?
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Depends what you want to do. For gaming, I HIGHLY reccomend the Hyundai L90D+. It passed all the tests at Tomshardware with flying colors and even beat the Samsung monitor which uses the very same panel.

For purely graphics, look around. Dell has some VERY nice ones at excellent prices, but response time suffers (25ms) so they're pointless for games.
 
Thanks,emad the calibration worked like a charm for me.Now I don't have to bring the brightness up to 100 like I used to do.thanks again 👍
 
emad
Depends what you want to do. For gaming, I HIGHLY reccomend the Hyundai L90D+. It passed all the tests at Tomshardware with flying colors and even beat the Samsung monitor which uses the very same panel.

For purely graphics, look around. Dell has some VERY nice ones at excellent prices, but response time suffers (25ms) so they're pointless for games.
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I was going to reccomend the L90D+, if you are looking at a lower price range try an aries one.
 

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