LCDs are HARD to profile correctly. I never had trouble getting accurate
color matching with any CRT but several months ago I bought an NEC 2190UXi,
which is one of the very best LCDs for photo and graphics work. This was
impossible to calibrate at all with my Eye-One Display using the eye-one
software. Keep in mind the i1 is a lot nicer colorimeter than the Huey. I
ended up having to but NEC's calibration software. It works with the i1
colorimeter but allows the adjustment of the monitor's internal lookup
tables rather than adjusting the video card as regular calibration does.
It's a lot more accurate than using the i1 software but colors are still way
too bright, even using NECs recommendation of 80 for the brightness. Black
and white is perfect though. I think with LCDs you just have to have
accurate output profiles and softproof to compensate for the monitor's
over-bright colors.
Sorry that some of this doesn't apply to apple's monitor (apple doesn't have
software you can buy, for example) but try NECs recommendation of 80 for
brightness, it was a lot more accurate than Eye-One's LCD brightness
recommendation of 120 cd/sq in.
--
Chris Crawford
Photography & Graphic Design
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com
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On 5/26/07 9:08 AM, "Bob Whitmire" <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Y'know, I'm just not happy with the monitor profile I get with the
> Pantone Huey. It seems right, but then I get the print out of the
> Epson 4800 and they don't match up. So far I've been getting by
> because I understand that when I get too frisky with things like
> saturation and shadow/highlight, what comes out of the printer is
> going to be more exaggerated than what's on the screen. Most of the
> time Kentucky windage is okay, and gives good results, but there are
> times and prints when I need to put the cross-hairs right on the
> heart. And as all good snipers know, trial and error seldom leads to
> the intended result.
>
> It's not that far off, it's just not quite there.
>
> The monitor is an Apple 23" cinema, bought in December. The Huey was
> bought shortly after it came out. The printer is profiled with
> Enhanced Mat, Matte Black Ink for the 4800, and Photoshop handles all
> the color management stuff, just as recommended by the pros.
>
> I've thought it might be the LCD. I never can decide on which level
> of brightness works best. And then there's the fact that looking at
> an image on the LCD gives all the appearance of looking at a really
> big slide on a light box. CRTs aren't quite that dramatic. That said,
> I love the Apple display, and I love the fact that the working size
> of the image on the screen (in horizontal aspect) is roughly 11x15
> inches, which is quite a bit larger than the native E-1 (Olympus
> Content!) image.
>
> Reading the tales of others who apparently have flawlessly calibrated
> monitors, who pull prints from them indistinguishable from what they
> see on the screen, leads me into pits of self-loathing and
> depression. I want to be able to say that, too, and I'm not yet ready
> to acknowledge that what I'm reading from others might be flights of
> delusion or at least fancy. I'm fairly confident that perfection is
> not an option. <g>
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bobwhitmire.com
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