Hey - yet another question. I'm running dual Samsung SyncMaster 2232BW 22" LCD monitors. I've noticed that there seems to be a very, very slight pink tinge to my whites. What is the best way to adjust my monitor settings to correct for that? There are a bunch of settings in the NVidia control panel under advanced, but I'd like to know what the "correct" way to do that is..?

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BeachAV8R

Hey, Beach – there are a lot of advisors out there on how best to do the calibration. These looked potentially useful at a glance, but there are more. Hope this might help.

http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/monitor_calibration.htm

http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm

http://www.ddisoftware.com/prism/help/msteps.htm

http://lifehacker.com/350228/calibrate-your-monitor-with-screen-check

Here's a link to some free software that might help too (it might be referenced in some of Eugene's links as well):

http://www.quickgamma.de/indexen.html

Thanks guys..one of those should square me away. I'm not looking for professional grade calibration..but I would like to get it as close as I can for a lay-person..

Alright - I got it sorted! I found that by adjusting my RED setting on each monitor from 50% to 25% that it solves the problem. Now my whites are no longer tinged with a faint pink. Hooray!

Thanks guys!

Actually - revisiting this I managed to fix my color using the Color Management feature of Windows 7. It has my primary monitor looking great, with the correct color levels. But I can't get it to adjust my second monitor for some reason. Does anyone know how to get Windows 7 to adjust a second monitor?

it should be possible, when i was running W7 beta i had both my displays calibrated.. i should be getting my full version through soon, so once its installed, i'll post screenshots

for now, have you tried the nvidia control panel?

I was able to adjust my second monitor by dragging the W7 Color Management window to the second monitor..

Brightness, contrast calibration of LCD monitor with OSD adjustment is not recommendable.
You need to reset the monitor to factory default setting before using calibration tool to adjust the profile.

For precise calibration on all aspects of display like RGB output property, colour temp (white point), gamma adjustment, luminance, etc, you'll need a monitor calibration tool like Spider. Below is to self test whether your monitor properly displays shadow and highlight or not:

Steps needed for a proper test:


Disable 'monitor power off' from the PC power management option.
Select Factory Reset from the monitor OSD menu.
Return all settings of GFX driver to Default.
Don't use Natural color or Adobe Gamma or any other monitor color related programs.
Do the following test in 30 minutes later at least after turning on the monitor.

1. Shadow detail test.

If you can't see all the numbers from 1 to 10 in below black box, your monitor is either too dark or light source around your monitor is too bright.
This black box test shows how well your monitor setting displays dark details.
You may do the checking from opening the black chart from Photoshop for clearer analysis.



2. 50% Grey test.

You must be able to see -5 up to -1, 1 to 5.



3. Highlight detail test.

You must be able to read all numbers from 1 to 10.



4. Colour test.

Provided your monitor displays colours properly, the top line colours should be seen as Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta.
The second line is slightly darker tones of the same colours.
The bottom line is from black to while Grey scale chart. They must be seen as pure Grey (achromatic) with no other tones mixed.



Standard Gamma and colour temp for accurate photo image observation is 2.2. and 6500k.

Hope this helps a bit.

Awesome..that does help. Looks like my blacks are too dark and my highlights are to bright..but my colors seem spot on.

Thanks for taking the time to post this..

all those files should have been saved in a lossless format ie. 24bit PNG

The thought never occurred to me.

Well, hopefully the 'loss' incurred by saving the pics once in jpg before uploading wouldn't be that significant as to affect the rather simple test.