Calibrator
20 creative works found
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Monitor Calibration and ICC printing profiles.
by David IoriI 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
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So this passed weekend I was taking some photos of this restored B-17G called the Liberty Belle. Do you ever just play around in Photoshop and then REALLY like how the changes affected your image? This is one of those for me. I know it’s TOTALLY over the top and I LOVE it ….... Hope you do as well. Click here to get more detail on this beautiful aircraft
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My images seem too dark?
by Mel BrackstoneSometimes 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.
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This passed weekend I had the distinct opportunity to spend some time with this beauty, a restored and flight worthy B-17 G called the Liberty Belle. Going late Saturday evening and early morning Sunday allowed me to see her in her best light …. ! Click here to get more detail on this beautiful aircraft
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Cause for Calibration
by mstracebut 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. /
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Monitor Calibration
by Kevin KroekerI am trying to calibrate my monitor… does anyone have any suggestions or tips on how to do this? Do I need to buy special software or i…
I am trying to calibrate my monitor… does anyone have any suggestions or tips on how to do this? Do I need to buy special software or is there any free software that works? I am having a few problems getting my images to match what i see on my screen . I have my camera and my printer all set to AdobeRGB so I think all that is left is monitor callibration. Any help would be greatly appreciated. / / Cheers, / Kevin
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screen colours
by Tony MiddletonHey 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 :)
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Infra Red Photography calibration and diffraction.
by Mark JonesI have made some comments recently re issues with infra red conversions. Here are the 2 points explained - / Calibration – Infra red light…
I have made some comments recently re issues with infra red conversions. Here are the 2 points explained / Calibration – Infra red light focuses at a different point to normal light. The old style cameras that you set the aperture on the lense, and focused on the lense, had a red line next to the normal focus line, which represented the mark that you set the focus of your lense to when using infra red film. Modern camers don’t have this, but when you have a conversion done, you have the camera focus (for auto) calibrated based on the lense used when shooting infra red. This meens that the auto focus will proprly work, and your images will be sharp. You can use other lenses, butthe auto focus may be out, and you will need test shots for each image to get the manual focus right. You cannot see the focus correct through the viewfinder, it is at the sensor only that it will be noticed. / In relation to diffraction, I have been told that anything over f11 in infrared will suffer from this. Following is a desciption of what diffraction is. / Diffraction is an optical effect which can limit the total resolution of your photography- no matter how many megapixels your camera may have. Ordinarily light travels in straight lines through uniform air, however it begins to disperse or “diffract” when squeezed through a small hole (such as your camera’s aperture). This effect is normally negligible, but increases for very small apertures. Since photographers pursuing better sharpness use smaller apertures to achieve a greater depth of field, at some aperture the softening effects of diffraction offset any gain in sharpness due to better depth of field. When this occurs your camera optics are said to have become diffraction limited. Knowing this limit can help you to avoid any subsequent softening, and the unnecessarily long exposure time or high ISO speed required for such a small aperture. / I hope I have enlightened you all.
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The poor man’s way to calibrate your monitor
by Curtiss SimpsonColor management has always been a mystery to me. The more I read about it the more confusing it becomes LOL, monitor profiles, printer p…
Color management has always been a mystery to me. The more I read about it the more confusing it becomes LOL, monitor profiles, printer profiles, color space, soft proofing, sRGB aRGB LOL you get the ideal. So many different variables involved. But I’ll me the first to admit I am no PRO LOL just an amateur and feel free to make any corrections. / / The best way to calibrate your monitor is to buy one of those hardware profilers you stick on your screen and let it do its magic. But for a good one they cost money, money I’d rather put to a new lens’s LOL. I’m a simple man and like to keep things simple so here are some tips I have used that has worked for me. After my nineteen inch Samsung sync master CRT died and went up in smoke LOL I bought a new HP PC. It came with a 24 inch LCD the HPw2408. When I first started this baby up the screen was so bright I had to put my sun glasses on LOL. With the CRT it’s was simple I always used the adobe gamma utility and got pretty good results. Now the LCD posed a problem the gamma utility was meant to be used with a CRT. The HP LCD came with a little utility called My HP Display so I ran this and it will give you different test patterns to adjust the brightness and contrast the end result was brightness was set down to 10 and contrast at 87. Now this is not the perfect solution but it’s better than doing nothing at all. The bottom line is to match what you see on your monitor to what’s printed. Printing LOL another story. I have a HP 8750 for close to three years now it’s been a real work horse has never let me down. When printing I like to keep it simple LOL. Now that my monitor is calibrated the poor’s man’s way LOL I just send my files to the printer and let the printer handle the color management and I have an almost spot on match. Most online printers except a sRGB color space so I always make sure I tag my files with the sRGB color space when out sourcing and or printing at home. Again I am no expert on this subject but it works for me. Also please feel free to correct any wrong information or add to it. Some places to go to on the internet to check your monitor. epaperpress normankoren A free software utility I found on the internet it’s free a download. calibrize I think one of these days I will buy one of those hardware calibrator things but for now the above works for me. And in closing thanks again my friends for your support with the comments and favs it means a lot to me. Have a great day, Curtiss
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A re-do of X_Caliber. Reproportioned,
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Grrr ... colour management
by David BarnesOh, 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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Right place, right time ….. Flight mechanic of the B-17 Flying Fortress called “Liberty Belle” tending to the outside port engine after she developed some problems during the first flight on Sunday 8/10/2008. I have images from the take-off, where puffs of smoke from that engine are clearly visible. This plane has quite some history: / On September 9, 1944 the 390th Bomb Group attacked a target in Dusseldorf, Germany and suffered its second largest single mission loss of the war. Over the target just prior to bomb release, one of the low squadron B-17s was hit in the Bomb bay by flak. The 1000 lb. bombs exploded and nine of the twelve aircraft in the squadron were instantly destroyed or knocked out of formation. Six of the nine went down over the target, one flew two hours on a single engine and landed at Paris, another “crippled plane” landed in Belgium and the other struggled back to its home base and landed long after the other thirty nine B-17s had returned from the mission. The one that came home was “Liberty Belle”, she went on to complete 64 combat missions before being salvaged on February 18, 1945. Click here to get more detail on this beautiful aircraft
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Calibration & Color Space?
by MD81I 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
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Toytime
by theurbannexusAfter 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!
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Calibres Of An Educated Fool
by VulcanYes 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”
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A big bad spyder.
by BrainCandyI 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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close up of Galileo Hydrometer
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Is bigger beter ?
by David HutchesonOK I’m not going to rant this time honest lol I was reminded just how much of a difference viewing an image on different monitors & se…
OK I’m not going to rant this time honest lol I was reminded just how much of a difference viewing an image on different monitors & setups can be. I had to look at my site here on RedBubble as I was making changes etc. using my father’s setup due to the fact that my system is in the bedroom while my office/ spare room is being changed. With my wife being on night shift that meant that I was not going to be in the room doing any work, I have tried to do some in the past with the lights off etc but this is not very easy for working in and not very fair on my wife, so I was using my fathers system and my god what a difference!! I was looking at some of my images here and was amazed at the difference both in the colour & in the light or lack of it!!. I was looking at the images and saw that they were mostly all a lot warmer than I see on my monitor and that they were duller; there was not the same clarity in the shadows that I am seeing on my monitor, and everything is soft. I lead me on to wonder what other people were seeing while looking at my work? Are any of my sales going to be disappointed when they get their print and it’s not the same as they saw on their monitor; this is always going to be the problem when working with online galleries as a means of viewing & purchasing. I’m fairly confident in the accuracy of my monitor etc as I calibrate them using the Eye one system from GretagMacbeth I am certainly going to get my fathers monitor calibrated very soon but I fear that it’s not going to be as good as mine even when it is done. He opted for a big screen at what was at the time a good price but to its just never as sharp as it should be, things are always soft, it’s not very good when you are working on images and you think that the shot is just not sharp enough, only to see it on my monitor and the difference is quite shocking actually. It’s like when we all printed our stuff in darkrooms. I had the pleasure of having my own darkroom up in the attic complete with running water; Nova deep tanks, Durst enlargers, Dukka safe lights etc. I was lucky in that my father got me into photography in the first place and we used to split the cost so we could afford to get slightly better things without all the same output of cash. My point is that it was a rule that you always spent as much as you could on the lens for your enlarger – it did not matter if you had the top of the range Durst or whatever, if you had a cheap crap lens then so was the quality of the final print in relation to what it would have been like with a better lens a cheaper enlarger. To my shame it all sits up there gathering dust and neglected, second hand I would get pennies for it now. I only printed B&W nothing else, there are times that I miss it but now work purely in digital. So is bigger better in monitors, or should we all be getting smaller ones of higher quality and finer calibration controls if we still want to only spend a certain amount of money without going over budget? Well I know what I choose. Catch you all again soon, cheers, David
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Do You See What I See?
by Graham LeaWhy do my own photos look pathetic when I look at them at work? Do You See What I See?...
Why do my own photos look pathetic when I look at them at work? Do You See What I See?
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All calibrated up and nowhere to go...
by Caroline SwinburneI 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.
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