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A Cry For Help
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Jody
i wasnt aware of the borrowing ram thing
my understanding is that its not actually the OS using the profile its actually the graphics card. ie i dont think the OS does the colour shifts etc the card does
Steve, to be honest I’ve not really looked into it. It was a conversation I had with a vendor at work a few months ago. He’s one of these guys that bluffs his way past everything, pretending he knows it all…so I wouldn’t be surprise if he was just trying to give an air of knowledge
Jody wrote:
Big Fella wrote:
Jody wrote:
BF, is the second PC where the pics look bad running Windows Vista?
At this stage Jody I have viewed them on both 98, XP and Vista and its the same caper on all of them.
Ah, that is strange. I have the same problem, but only on a Vista Machine. What I was told was that Vista can borrow RAM from your video RAM if its running hard programs (like Photoshop say), and this can cause the problem
It is unlikely that video ram is being borrowed (The other way around maybe). If your video card does not have it’s own ram (or not enough) you might get issues, but it is unlikely to effect colour profiles.
If this is a laptop one of the more common issues is that when the laptop is not plugged into the wall the screen will normally be dimmer (To save power) which would effect how colours are displayed.
Adobe has a software tool for calibrating your monitor (It would not be as good as the hardware solutions mentioned earlier.)
Sorry to bring up this thread again but following my earlier post about being in the same situation I thought it might be useful. Went ahead and got myself a colour calibrator but with a pretty tight budget I had to go for the Colorvision Spyder2Express which works out around £55 – £60 or so. It doesn’t have any customisable settings so you have to go with what it gives you, but Gamma 2.2 and 6500k was what I was looking for and thats what it gives.
I used it to calibrate both my Macbooks 13″ display and my HP W2007v external 20″ which is a pretty low cost display. The Spyder2Express doesn’t actually support calibrating multiple monitors but there is a work around here that allows you to do it. One thing I noticed is just how much of a blue cast there was to both displays prior to calibration. They both seem a lot warmer now and more neutral which is what I was hoping for. Both displays aren’t identical obviously which I don’t think would be acheivable anyway but they are pretty close with the only really difference seeming to be the external display having more vibrant/saturated colours. I am not sure though which display I should choose as the most accurate, or how I can find this out… All in all though I am very happy with the product and I think I am certainly a lot better off. Before I worried about spending ages in Lightroom adjust settings only for someone else to see something totally different. Obviously no two people will ever see the exact same thing but now I feel confident that I am at least on a similar playing field. So far I feel its money well spent.
Please note that I am a complete newbie to colour calibration with a pretty average/untrained eye in my head, no previous experience or any other devices and using one of the most basic calibrators on the market. Don’t give me too hard a time, just sharing my first steps to fixing my colour problems :)
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