Comments on: Episode 65: REST

By: Brian Abston

Brian Abston — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:14:08 +0000

Yes, you can calibrate more than one monitor. You only need to leave it connected if you want it to adjust your monitor to the room light.

If you have dual monitors though you will need to spring for the Huey Pro. Exact same hardware just has support for dual monitor calibration and some advanced stuff that I don’t use. I have read though that you can calibrate dual monitors with the Huey but it isn’t built into the software.

http://www.amazon.com/Pantone-MEU113-huey-Pro/dp/B000OFC1YY/ref=pd_cp_e_1

By: Jade Robbins

Jade Robbins — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:41:31 +0000

Funny, I was actually looking at one of those today. Could you use one unit to calibrate several monitors?

By: Brian Abston

Brian Abston — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:38:17 +0000

OSx has a decent monitor calibration function built into it. You can get to it from the System Preferences.

I bought the Pantone Huey to calibrate my iMac. Works great. It is cheap, easy to use and adjusts the calibration to the light in the room.

http://www.amazon.com/Pantone-MEU101-huey/dp/B000CR78C4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1273156528&sr=8-2

By: Jade Robbins

Jade Robbins — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:41:14 +0000

Awesome! I’ll have to play around tonight now armed with this knowledge. Thank you!

By: Levi

Levi — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:13:42 +0000

One final resource, probably far more technical than most people care about:

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/sRGB-AdobeRGB1998.htm

By: Levi

Levi — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:07:02 +0000

Just found this, nice podcast Jade and Mark!

Photoshop Color Stuff:

In Photoshop, ensure that the working profile is sRGB. Some camera files or print media will come with a different color profile attached like Adobe RGB or even jpgs in CMYK. sRGB has a bit smaller gamut range, but is by far the most compatible color space and is the default space for both Mac and Windows. The most modern browsers will now honor jpg’s with attached color profiles, but otherwise older browsers and jpgs without a profile default back to sRGB.

Edit->Color Settings – this will let you set your working space to sRGB as well as automatically convert all incoming documents to the working space.

Not quite done yet though. The image may now be in the right working space, but Photoshop has an option to proof different color schemes — need to make sure that’s off unless you have a truly calibrated monitor.

View->Proof Colors – make sure this is off. You can set the different color proofs under View->Proof Setup. Unfortunetly, Photoshop has ctrl-Y set as the toggle for the Proof Colors, same as any other programs Redo, so I always accidentally toggle this on. Not a big deal as long as your proof setup is the same as your system (ie, Windows or Mac RGB). However, some camera files or other Photoshop files default the proof setup to working CMYK. Try toggling between sRGB and you’ll see a huge difference.

Photoshop does display the proof info in your image’s window title as such:
“Document name” @ “Zoom%” (“Color Space” / “Bytes” [/ "Proof Space"])
So, watch that last option, the proof color space. If it’s there, you might not be viewing the right colors.

In summary: Use sRGB color space for everything. Ensure that Photoshop’s Proof Colors is off.