If you research the topic online you will find articles that tell you how to calibrate your monitor without a colorimetric device. They are called colorimetric devices and connect to your computer via the USB port. The only way to calibrate your monitor accurately is to buy (or borrow) a device that measures the colours emitted by your monitor. If your monitor is uncalibrated (making everything look bluer than what it is) you probably picked Image 2 as the neutrally coloured one. But it’s very difficult to tell on an uncalibrated monitor. If you answered that Image 1 is neutral, you are correct. One is completely neutral in tone, the other isn’t. Take a look at these two black and white images. Regardless, even if monitors were calibrated prior to shipping, you would still need to calibrate your monitor yourself at regular intervals because the colour of monitors drifts over time. Neither of these ideas seems credible to me. Whenever I’ve searched for the answer all I find is vague references to blue computer screens looking better in the shops, or that the blue colour cast suits graphic designers.
They still have a colour cast, but it’s not as strong.
The only exception seems to be Apple Mac computers. Most monitors have a strong blue colour cast. When monitors are manufactured, the colour is set incorrectly. If you undertake client work, or sell your photos through stock libraries, it is essential to calibrate your monitor so that you know the colours of your photo are as intended. If you don’t, the colours in your photos won’t be accurate, and you will never produce a print (or any other form of output, such as a Blurb book) that matches the colours on your screen. If colormanaged applications like Photoshop and Safari are displaying tagged sRGB with a yellow color cast - you probably have a bad monitor profile to rule out.If you want to obtain accurate colours in your photos in Lightroom (or indeed any other software), no matter what you may read elsewhere, you need to calibrate your computer monitor. In Photoshop, if we strip the profile, Photoshop (in essence) Defaults/Assigns/Applies/Assumes its Working RGB. In Mac unmanaged applications, OSX will display tagged and untagged sRGB identically BECAUSE the same default monitor profile is being Assigned/Applied/Assumed. The Mac is 'different' BECAUSE it Defaults/Assigns/Applies/Assumes MonitorRGB when files are untagged (or unmanaged) - this means OSX will display tagged and untagged sRGB differently in color-managed apps.
Most Windows browsers should not shift sRGB color at all BECAUSE Windows Defaults/Assigns/Applies/Assumes sRGB when files are untagged (or unmanaged), so BOTH tagged and untagged sRGB should look identical in Windows (at least in Vista). The response is presumptuous because we don't know what operating system you are using. Do I need to just use my Expodisc all the time now? Are my Photoshop settings correct? I feel like since I shoot in Adobe RGB my color settings should be Adobe RGB instead of sRGB. So, since callibration I feel like I am spending TONS of time trying to color correct! What is the deal?ĭid I callibrate my monitor incorrectly? Is it my camera that is messing up the color? The auto white balance setting was working nicely in most lighting throughout the day, except for churches. Strangely, before I callibrated my monitor they matched much closer. Now, my issue is this.what I have shot and previewed on my LCD screen on my camera is WAY different than what I am seeing on my computer screen. I have since used the Spyder 3 Pro to callibrate my monitor and BOY do things look different- darker and with a yellow hue. I wasn't happy with this, so I bought the Spyder 3 Pro to callibrate my monitor thinking this was the problem. I have since done this and before I used my Spyder 3 Pro to callibrate my monitor my prints were turning out dark and some of the prints had a green tone (depending upon the action I used in Photoshop).
But then under Color Management Policies change the RGB, CMYK, and Gray drop downs to Convert to Working RGB, CMYK, and Gray. So, I was told that I need to go to Edit -> Color settings -> then under working spaces keep the RGB at the sRGB (and a hole bumch of numbers and some letters after that) setting. I have Photoshop CS3 and am trying to get my color settings in Photoshop as well as my monitor calibrated so that what I see on my computer screen post production is what I see in a printed photo (I just use Some background info.I shoot in Adobe RGB and I have callibrated my monitor using the Spyder 3 Pro. OK, here's the deal.I currently am doing my work flow on a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop.