Tip: Balancing Two Screens . . .

Grazie wrote on 5/21/2005, 4:44 AM


. .bit of a sideways, literally, balancing act.

I've always felt my Rt Screen to be differnt to my Lft screen.

1/- Put TestBars on Track1

2/- Rotate in Pan/Crop by 90 degrees

3/- Make preview as BIG as possible.

4/- Position Preview window so it "straddles" both screens - cute eh?

5/- Adjust Monitor settings for matching colour.

Just done! Works for me!

. . now somebody is gonna say there is an auto "colour" match thingy for rt/lft screens!

Hope this helps .. somebody.

Grazie


Comments

farss wrote on 5/21/2005, 6:21 AM
Here's the thing that bugs me. The video cards have a widget for adjusting more parameters than I can grasp, there's a Windoz thing for doing the same and there's some other thing that PS installs from Kodak as well and to top it all off the monitor has its own set of internal controls. I've simply given up, I'm fast joining the "If it's got color and it moves it's video" brigade.
And just now I was trying to understand color profiles, seems if I don't get them right I'll never get a print back from a lab that looks anything like what I think it will.
Anyway Grazie, for me a very timely post.
Bob.
apit34356 wrote on 5/21/2005, 6:53 AM
Farss, well in theory, color profiles in PS and other apps are supposed to print what see color corrected or what to you are printing to. "what are you printing to" is the best route, though there are strong argues on the other side. Your screen display colors are adjusted to match your printer or remote printshop. I have a number of different professional color printers on my network and they do not match in color. the color profile does the best in matching "color" on different printers. But really, what you see on the display, is what you want on the print, this is where color profiles help the most. Its like dv rack, once you cal. your display with the camera, you get want you see,"color" wise, different camera, different settings. Having a general color profile does not work well in a professional envirvonment where 24/32 vs 8bit color rules. Many great PS shots died being printed without proper calc. (farss, I figured you already know this)
rs170a wrote on 5/21/2005, 6:58 AM
And just now I was trying to understand color profiles,...

Grazie/Bob;
Why not invest in a Spyder? Looks like it'll take the guesswork out of attempting the impossible :-)
Consumer & pro models available depending on needs and pocketbook.
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Mike
farss wrote on 5/21/2005, 2:41 PM
I do understand how it's all supposed to work (well sort of, still a bit to learn) but my gripe is that there's so many different things that will let me adjust what I see on the monitor and that's apart from the profiles in PS.
Bob.