Calibrating your Monitor

What is the best way to calibrate your monitor. If there is software, what is the best? I have three monitors I use. Can you use the software for more than one monitor?

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Permalink Reply by nathan mccreery on January 22, 2010 at 1:03pm

John,

There are several softwares (is that a word?) that can be purchased to calibrate your monitor. If you are using a color lab to print photographs for you their customer service would be a good place to start. Theoretically any software should calibrate your monitor so that it will appear identical on any other calibrated monitor. However, I think that's more theory than reality. If you are having a lab do your printing for you they will have a set of profiles to use so that you get what you see, or a near approximation, when your prints come back.

Permalink Reply by David Stephen Kalonick on January 22, 2010 at 1:47pm

Go with spider pro 3! You definitely need this if you are using three monitors!!!

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Permalink Reply by Deborah Marie Butcher on January 22, 2010 at 2:32pm

Here is another option: Eye-One is a very good calibration tool which Chris Orwig swares by.
Chris Orwig is a faculty member of Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. He is a photographer, interactive designer, and educator who brings his unique perspective, creativity, and passion to all that he does. As a photographer, he agrees with Marc Riboud's observation that "Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second." For more information and inspiration, visit http://www.chrisorwig.com.

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Permalink Reply by Boon Ong on January 22, 2010 at 4:52pm

I am using Eye One Plus Display 2 for many years. A great device to use tho.

If your 3 monitors are attached to 1 graphic card, I'm afraid that it only work on one monitor tho. Correct me if i am wrong.
This is because after each calibration, it will store the ICC profile in your system thus, having it starting up your computer, the ICC profile will load automatically.

The only way will be having the other 2 monitors to follow the calibrate monitor setting. This is provided that you have the same set of monitors together.

Cheers

Permalink Reply by John Daly on January 27, 2010 at 7:50am