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• Monitor Calibration and ICC printing profiles.
  by David Iori

  I regularly calibrate my equipment. A Few links to help you understand all about Monitor Calibration and ICC Profiles in the *New Age…

  I regularly calibrate my equipment. A Few links to help you understand all about Monitor Calibration and ICC Profiles in the New Age of Digital Printing. Everything you ever wanted to know about ICC printing Everything you ever wanted to know about Monitor Calibration This Site has everything you ever wanted to know, as Digital Processing is a very complex subject. Gone are the days you drop your negatives into the Labs and they do all the work for you. It would be nice if REDBUBBLE could make the ICC profiles available of the printers they use so we can proof our work against their printers. If you go and read my other Journals I have more on this topic. I like to try to help people, and share my knowledge. David

• My images seem too dark?
  by Mel Brackstone

  Sometimes people come to me with comments that my images seem to be a little dark, so I thought I’d give a couple of pointers to where yo…

  Sometimes people come to me with comments that my images seem to be a little dark, so I thought I’d give a couple of pointers to where you can go to hopefully improve your viewing pleasure. Calibrating your monitor can make a huge difference between seeing what the original author intended, and seeing very little. Here are some links that may be of interest if you would like to improve your viewing. I use a Spyder 3 Pro, however, these links below can offer a free way to get started on seeing more…... Calibrate your monitor offers a fast and easy fix WikiHow has some tips that may be helpful too.

• Cause for Calibration
  by mstrace

  but I can’t do the dirty tango with just anyone

  Just getting back from a few days away, leaving again for a short little vacation on a beach south of Santa Barbara. I need the rest. I need the relaxation. But hey I did get in touch my muse for the Plaster Goodbye the Bitch Goddess piece. That wonderful little conversation is what sprouted this little ditty here. I dunno…I must need God’s gift of a mechanic to open my insides up and fix the clanking going on in there. Because my radar is SERIOUSLY off people. /

• screen colours
  by Tony Middleton

  Hey everyone, / Just a couple of queries for those out there….I shoot all my stuff on Fuji Velvia which is just an exceptional film for…

  Hey everyone, / Just a couple of queries for those out there….I shoot all my stuff on Fuji Velvia which is just an exceptional film for colour richness,saturation and fine grain – some of the originals look quite spectacular even.Then I scan them and re-size/adjust them to try and match the original which at the time i either have projected or on a light table in front of me. I only want my work online to be equal to that of the originals, I’d hate to think of someone buying my work and it being a misrepresentation of it. / So….the question being…is there any one out here in ‘Bubble-land’ that can put me on to a free monitor/screen colour calibration URL,program or bar chart ? / I have black and white bar scales and everything loooks perfect, so I am essentially just chasing a colour calibration check to verify everything… thanks for any advice or comments, tone :)

• Grrr ... colour management
  by David Barnes

  Oh, I am so close to giving in and buying a colour calibration device for my monitor. All I did yesterday was update my graphics dri…

  Oh, I am so close to giving in and buying a colour calibration device for my monitor. All I did yesterday was update my graphics driver. Just a simple procedure … surf on over to NVidia, grab the latest driver, d/l and install it. Hey presto, all is fine, reboot works (always a nice bonus with new drivers!) (#) but OH NO!, my background ain’t as black as is used to be. A few seconds later, I dare to look back at the screen, hoping the settings just had to be reloaded from the old driver but alas, no change. You see, I use a combination of the RGB/brightness/contrast controls on my monitor, AND on my graphics card driver via the control panel, to get reasonably acceptable gamma, colour and contrast. The new driver had complete failed to load my old settings. Now I was upset! There followed about six attempts to recalibrate my screen using various combinations of RGB gamma and test pattern images and the Adobe gamma utility and the wizard in the NVidia panel. I’ve only just got it sorted now (I think) and I’m left hoping/trusting that things are fine again. What worked best was simply that I know what my images look like from colour-controlled print labs, so after a rough calibration with the various wizards, I simply tweaked things until a reasonable selection of my images looked “right”. I think things are still fractionally blue, but it’ll do for now. It’s a bit slap-dash really, so I think it’s time to get me a colour calibration system. Who of my watchers has got a recommendation? thanks – David. (#) actually NVidia usually provides pretty reliable drivers, so the successful reboot was expected!

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  X-Caliber II
  by Dean Warwick

  US$3.99–US$106.40

  A re-do of X_Caliber. Reproportioned,

• Calibration & Color Space?
  by MD81

  I was reading John Conway’s journal about color space, what we use and RB use, etc. Is it possible for RB to clarify this one, and pe…

  I was reading John Conway’s journal about color space, what we use and RB use, etc. Is it possible for RB to clarify this one, and perhaps put a journal/shortcut, etc on color space / calibration? All I know from John’s journal was to use sRGB. Oo oo … gotta rework and changed my adobe settings then. I’m using Adobe RGB for my camera settings/preferences, and that’s my Photoshop CS setting too. Regards, / Sidqie

• Toytime
  by theurbannexus

  After a year or more of solid significant credit card debts, I am about to be out of debt. Or I was, until I celebrated (after much con…

  After a year or more of solid significant credit card debts, I am about to be out of debt. Or I was, until I celebrated (after much consideration) buy ordering two items I had wanted for ages – a colour calibrator for my monitors (iMac CD and MacBook, latter of which has me all confused because of its damned glossy screen) and a new lens. I played with my lens first – a cheapie, but a goodie: the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8. It seems to produce DOF that’s shallow enough to appreciate. Especially compared to my icky kit lens that I’ve been using since my Nikon D50 was stolen last year (the Nikkor 18-70mm was the kit lens for the D70, it is no longer kit). Then I calibrated my iMac’s screen. It wasn’t a massive change, which is good (I expect this on the laptop) but the screen became perceptably ‘clearer’. The model I chose wasn’t locally available – it’s the Pantone Huey Pro. Both were ordered from Amazon and saved me $150 or so (considering the PHP is not available here, I am happy). So that was nice. Now I hope I can translate this across to my produce (I don’t feel like using ‘work’ as Real Work™ is dull and a source of pain at the moment). Yay!

• A big bad spyder.
  by BrainCandy

  I have just acquired a Spyder2, and finally I can sor…

  I have just acquired a Spyder2, and finally I can sort of believe what I see. / Spyder is a colorimeter allowing you to calibrate the screen colours to “true” colour. / Most screen are not colour-accurate straight out of the factory and many people get frustrated that the prints come out looking very different to what they see on the screen. / Spyder will not calibrate the printer, but at least the screen colours are true. If anyone wanted to calibrate your screen, and we reside in the same hemisphere, drop me a line and we’ll see what can be done.

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  Rising Temperature
  by Michelle Duerden

  US$3.85–US$102.60

  close up of Galileo Hydrometer

• Calibres Of An Educated Fool
  by Vulcan

  Yes I remember I was in school, / teachers tryna make me learn / I barely understand,

  Its about what you get out of education rather than degrees you have. / That is what I wanted to capture.Successful or not I don’t know / Atleast I didn’t let my “Studies Interfere with my education”

• All calibrated up and nowhere to go...
  by Caroline Swinburne

  I bought a Spyder2 Extreme screen calibration tool yesterday and just set it all up. Everything looks a little bit weird now but I’m told…

  I bought a Spyder2 Extreme screen calibration tool yesterday and just set it all up. Everything looks a little bit weird now but I’m told that I’ll get used to it. I opened up Aperture expecting to find a huge disappointing mess but luckily most of my photos are fine, some are a little weird but that’s easy to fix and at least I’ve corrected the problem now.