computer screen colour adjustment

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hey i just adjusted my computer monitor to the ICC standards and DAMN it looks different LOL

i recently took a cd down to the photo [rinters and it came back all PINK after i had done it to be perfectly cepear.

BUGGER i say

and they tell me their machine is INTERNATIONALLY SET TO THE CORRECT COLOURS.

so i go and change my settings and find out it looks pink on my monitor now LOL

ha ha ha ha i’m such an IDIOT …LOL

but now my problem is that all the work i do on my computer will be funny colours for all you people around the world, coz i bet none of you have it ICC compliant

well nobody i know does.

Alltaken

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if your using photoshop or something close to edit your pics it should have a color adjustment feature that might help so we are able to see you pics properly

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How did you do this???

Windows? Linux? What?

–
Brian

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windows, but it has NOTHING to do with the OS.

it would work the same for Linux, Windows, MAC

its just two images

one will be used to adjsut the brightness of the individual colours
RED
BLUE
GREEN

(untill they look the same brightness to you)

then the other will be used to adjust the overall brightness of the monitor, by adjusting an image untill a certain shade of grey becomes BLACK (to the eye)

then you have adjusted it.

this all has to be done on the OSD (on screen display) of the monitor itself.

NOT SOFTWARE (but you can do it that way, however i don’t trust that)

i could send or post the test patterns

The test conditions are as follows:

Contrast should be set to about 75% of maximum.
Colour temperature settings should be turned off.
Moire cancellers sould also be turned off.

Also be sure to turn off any re-sampling or smoothing features in your display
software (these mess with focus and may confuse convergence).

The BlackLevel pattern is two concentric circles only 4 steps in brightness
apart. You should adjust your black level (brightness) so you see only the
inner circle on a black background. If you don't see either it's too dark, if
you see both it's too bright.

Using the center.gif image adjust your monitor's sizing, rotation, skew and
trapezoid settings so the outer line just touches the outer edge of your
displayable area on all sides of the crt.

The convergence patterns are true overlap convergence...

        The purple screen tests blue and red
        The yellow screen tests green and red
        The cyan screen test blue and green.

        (It's simple really... eg. on the purple screen, anything
        you see that's not purple, any red or blue, is an error.)

The focus screens should not be zoomed.  They should be viewed native size,
centered on the screen and focus should be examined with a magnifying glass.

The colour balance screens test red-green-blue balance at 4 brightness levels
and at multibrightness on 16bit or better displays.  Obviously the red, green
and blue areas should be equal brightness at all times.

now download the zip file from here

(rename it as .ZIP BTW)

the two images you should care about are.

the one with a scale of bright-dark with all the major colours

and then the black circles one, which will show only the centre circle hopefully.

http://www.dm7.net/albums/album07/monitor.mov

that will set you all up with ICC regulation montiors (very important for graphic designers).

Alltaken

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Cheers Alltaken!

Done the stuff you suggested, and things look good!

–
Brian