Thank you Andy, unfortunately I have had the monitor since Christmas so can't take it back. I didn't realise at the time that I couldn't change the temperature to something I know. I got around it by changing the Hue and saturation.

Mike, I do see a vast difference from my original settings to the new calibrated one, just to my eye its to bright and a bit washed out. I tried setting the brightness and contrast to what I think it should be and then run the Huey but it keeps coming up looking exactly the same so altering the brightness and contrast made no difference.

Sorry about that Christine - can I suggest you add an attachment that looks good to you or blue and let us look at them on other calibrated monitors. I use a Spyder 2 Pro on mine every two weeks - it might help you to know what some of us see. I must admit however that I have not noticed anything off in your recent posts.

The first macbeth chart on my monitor doesn't look right. the border around all the colors I presume should be black on my monitor its medium grey and it looks like it should have more depth of color and contrast.

The second photo I have added 100% contrast which has made it look good.

Hi Christine - the Macbeth chart - bottom row is meant to go from absolute white to absolute black. According to my monitor both white squares are shades of grey - the first one goes to dark grey - the second to almost black but not quite. The contrast increase brings the white squares nearer to white but it they are both still grey on my screen. The first chart also shows a definite yellow/orange cast which is very faint on the increased contrast chart - but detectable. Try a cooler setting and lets see?

Attached are 2 electronically produced versions of the chart. I have a program that produces a bmp file. I have resized the bmp file to meet the forums limit. Also is a reduced to a lesser extent jpg version.

It maybe useful to compare against.

I have the same problem as Christine my monitor at work is much brighter than the one at home. To add further confusion work has just given me a 17 inch laptop which looks different again. My first thoughts were that my work monitor was wrong until I checked this out.

http://www.pbase.com/image/67769565

Setting my home monitor to this makes everything far too bright.

So have my gallery posts been too bright ?

I am looking into getting a spyder 2 but I am a bit concerned that it will not make matters better.

Out of interest for those who are calibrated using a gismo does the about link display correctly ?

Andy, the first chart I should have said is straight from a download with no alterations. The second is the one I altered to what I think looks okay.

Rob I have just checked the link, the colors look good, vibrant and bright. Maybe I do have it set right and its just me not used to seeing things correct.

I have been going through my gallery and most photos look awful, foggy and wishy washy.

Hi Rob - the bottom of your Macbeth chart goes from off white to dark grey on my monitor. The Pbase link I see as absolute white to absolute black and I can see all the marked divisions on that chart.

Hi Christine - the second chart also has the definite orange cast so I suggest "cooling" the screen - as I think you can - and see the result.

Thanks Andy

This site also looks interesting

http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/m...alibration.htm

Hi Christine - a link I've just found that tells you how to adjust the colour on your monitor I think - hope it helps.

http://www.anandtech.com/displays/sh...px?i=2944&p=10

This link may also help


http://www.behardware.com/articles/6...take-over.html