At 10:32 AM 8/14/02 -0700, Mike wrote:
Other than buying a $1500 monitor what can I do to get a
reasonable calibration? If it were at least close I could then do an
"eyeball" calibration and cut down on the number of trial prints.
Hi Mike,
You can get in the ballpark with your monitor by using Adobe gamma that's
packaged with Photoshop. If you don't have Photoshop available then try
WiziWYG from
Praxisoft. <http://www.praxisoft.com/pages/products.wiziwyg.html#> It's a
free download and you don't need to register it or purchase targets if all
you're wanting to do is calibrate your monitor.
Once you've calibrated your monitor you'll probably want to develop a
profile for the printer. I'm using an inexpensive program by the name of
Profile Prism. It's cost is $69 (I think) and requires the use of a
flatbed scanner to scan the color targets. <http://www.ddisoftware.com/prism/>
To use a printer profile though you'll need an application that's "color
management aware" such as Photoshop or Qimage.
Using this approach my prints are very close to what I see on the monitor.
Later,
Johnny
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Lilburn, GA
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