Monitor Hardware Calibration Benefits

Hello to all...
Lets see if someone could help me:
I know if I hardware calibrate my monitor I can post process a photo in lightroom much more accurately because I get much more "near" to my ink jet printer when it comes to compare what I see in my monitor and what the printer prints.
Question is:
And if we talk about post process a photo in a hardware calibrated monitor and after that, instead of print it in my ink jet, ask to a "printing enterprise" ( sorry, I don't know how to say this correctly in English, but I think it is understandable ) to do the job.
Will I benefit too by having my monitor hardware calibrated when I order prints to "printing enterprises" ?
Lots of thanks
Miguel Garcia

>Will I benefit too by having my monitor hardware calibrated when I order prints to "printing enterprises" ?
Yes absolutely. Most (except the very cheapest) of those online places calibrate to a standard, which means that you'll get the best color if you hardware calibrate too. Some of these will even give you printing profiles that you can use to get the most accurate color but many standardize on sRGB. No matter what the printing places calibrate their equipment too or whether they give you profiles or not, if you do not calibrate using hardware, your screen is basically in a completely random state and you cannot predict what your prints will look like. So what is needed for good color reproduction is calibration on your side and calibration and good maintenance on the other side.

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hello to all ...
When I hardware calibrate a monitor ( in what concerns to getting closer results between images I view in my monitor and the printed ones ) the benefits are only for printing at home proposes (because I have heard this somewhere) or are they notorious too when I order prints to "printing enterprises" ?
thanks for your time,
Miguel Garcia

You probably meant to write noteworthy. Anyway. Calibration is important for any kind of print, be it home or online service. Many provide actual profiles as don said, and others color manage for you. They all do some sort of calibration although some services might have a too long time between calibrating and you might get inconsistent results. If you calibrate and profile your screen, you should turn off (or ask it to be turned off) any autocorrect feature that the printing service provides otherwise all your careful correction work will be for nothing. Lastly, calibrating and profiling is important for web work. If you use color maaged apps (such as Lightroom) on a calibrated and profiled monitor, you will be able to target sRGB correctly, so that others will see something close to what you see even if they don't calibrate. If you don't calibrate and color manage you will be targeting a completely random target and more people will see the wrong colors.

Monitor color calibration

What system/equipment do you guys recommend for color calibrating a macbook and an external monitor?
I'd rather pay a little more for a better system than save a buck, if the results will be better.
Thanks.

I would look at the Spyder Express (link below). It gives you the same results as a Pro series, but is less expensive. The other thing you need to check is your Creative Suite Color Settings. You can set these up in Bridge (Edit>Creative Suite Color Settings). Hardware calibration is only one part of the equation, software is the other.
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http://www.amazon.com/ColorVision-S3X100-SPYDER3EXPRESS/dp/B002OCF57K/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s =electronics&qid=1264436096&sr=1-5
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Just got a new ASUS LCD monitor, and calibrated it with the Spyder 3 Express.
Now when I import a .CR2 file using Lightroom 3 to edit the RAW image, the color is displayed as yellowy-gray and dull. It looks the same when I pull it into Elements 7, unless I remove all color management (which, if I save the image, actually then renders the image colors neon and oversaturated with lots of pink and red tones). If I export the image from Lightroom 3 the image colors are correct and very different from how they look in Lightroom.
I also use the ACR editor with Elements 7 and I am having the same problem there. Upon opening an edited Jpeg or a .CR2 RAW file there, the color is displayed as dull, grayish yellowy-green.
If I view the very same image in GIMP, Picasa or on the web, as long as the colorspace is intact (sRGB), the color is accurate. Not so in Elements or Lightroom.
If you have experience with this problem is it the monitor, the calibration, or Elements and Lightroom? I am beyond frustrated and need to see my colors properly. I have not had this problem before.
Thanks for your time.

I suggest re-reading C S S Simon's and my reply, including the links I provided with solutions and historical explanation – It is apparent you didn't!
Pay your money and make your display choice, but don't blame the wide gamut capable display because you are unwilling to learn how to use the technology advantages it provides!
Please read this factoid:
All Wide Gamut Displays when properly setup to display in a "wide gamut" mode such as Adobe RGB will only display images correctly in color managed applications – PERIOD.
Your Asus display has two factory calibrated modes, Adobe RGB and sRGB, which will only work properly using the color profile provide to you on CD (or downloaded) by Asus – This the monitor profile Asus used when hardware calibrating your specific serial number monitor at the factory. The displays internal LUT contains that calibration information, and there is no way for you to recalibrate it using a Spyder 3 or other hardware calibrator. I am going to paste here three separate solution alternatives I made at the other post – Use only one (1):
Solution 1) Delete your i1 Display custom profile and install the Asus provided PA246Q driver and profile. Then use the monitor's "factory calibrated" Adobe RGB wide Gamut selector mode with Lightroom and other color-managed applications. When using non-color managed applications, switch your monitor’s mode selector to sRGB. Calibration using i1 Display or other hardware device cannot be used with this option. User hardware calibration should only be performed using the monitor's 'User Mode.'
Solution 2) In addition to your Asus PA246Q wide gamut monitor, install a second standard gamut sRGB monitor. Calibrate both monitors separately using your i1 Display unit, which will create separate profiles for each monitor. Use your Asus PA246Q wide gamut monitor only with Lightroom and other color managed applications. Use your second sRGB monitor for with both non-color or color managed applications. You may still have issues properly calibrating your Asus PA246Q monitor with its proper 'User Mode' selection as others have reported, but the results should be better than what you have now.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1004&message=3897 4810&changemode=1
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1004&message=3908 1965&changemode=1
Solution 3) If none of the above works for you, get rid of the Asus PA246Q and buy a good standard "non-wide gamut sRGB display.

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MBP hardware calibrated profile

Hello,
I am inquiring if anyone as calibrated the screen of his MacBook pro.
18 months ago, I owned an Hi Res 15" PowerBook and someone had done a hardware calibration of the screen. (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2031306#2031306)
The result was amazing for photo and imaging. Now that I have switched to a MacBook pro has anyone hardware calibrated his screen? And could he share the profile?
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p.s.: Mine is the 2nd gen MBP, not with Led display.

I have an early 2008 model.. and sometimes when i come back from the screen saver, I go through this process as well... The calibration I have set is lost until I go to the system preferences panel and then it resets itself.

Hardware calibrated monitor and Lightroom 4

Hello everyone,
I have just invested in an Eizo SX2462W with EasyPIX / EX2 sensor (effectively a Spyder 4).
I have put together 3 profiles using the EasyPIX software as follows (based on the settings recommended by the Eizo guide):
1st profile - 6000K, 80cd/m2, Adobe RGB, 2.2 gamma
2nd profile - 6000k, 80cd/m2, sRGB, 2.2 gamma
3rd profile - 6000k, 80cd/m2, Native, 2.2 gamma
I use Lightroom 4.4 to process my RAW files.
As Lightroom is colour managed, my expectation is that when I switch between the 3 profiles I set up, the colour in my photos as seen in Lightroom would stay the same in the normal gamut range (e.g. skin colours). However, when I look at the photo the colours change as I cycle through the 3 profiles (I am looking at a portrait of my 5 year old son and focusing in on his skin tones in particular because I have read that normal gamut should cover the range of skin tones).
For the 2nd profile (sRGB) - this is the least saturated. The pink of his rosy cheeks as well as the rest of his face has a "duller", less saturated colour tone.
For the 1st profile (AdobeRGB) - his skin is more saturated. The pink rosy cheeks are noticeably pinker.
For the 3rd profile (Native) - his skin is even more saturated - looks almost orange. Pink cheeks are definitely even more pink.
The differences I am describing are not huge, but there is definitely a discernible difference as I cycle through the different profiles. So now I do not know which profile to trust when I am doing my post processing to get the right colour!! Which profile is correct??
If I have understood this topic from what I have read to date correctly, broadly speaking, I expected only 'out of normal' range gamut colour to be different between the 3 profiles. I am about to print a whole lot of large photos so just want to make sure I am doing my post processing right....
Many thanks.

twenty_one wrote:
You're welcome .
Either way, I don't see why you need anything but native gamut, from a color management perspective. The sRGB emulation could be useful if you plan to use applications that are not color managed, and you can't stand the wide gamut over-saturation. Personally I just ignore it and avoid those apps whenever possible.
Even web can be fully color managed if you use Firefox with color management set to mode 1.
One example of a "color-management issue" which I find to be quite vexing happens whenever I wish to view the Flash-based slideshows generated by my photohosting site (Zenfolio.com). Zenfolio's use of Flash for slideshows breaks the color management in normally-managed browsers like Safari and Firefox. So wide-gamut monitor users (such as I) can't display proper color in their own Zenfolio slideshows unless we use an sRGB emulation profile.
Frustratingly, Zenfolio has managed to deal with another Flash issue (i.e., its unavailability) for iOS devices by having HTML5 used for the slideshows if Safari reports the User Agent to be an iOS device. I tried to work around this by having my desktop Mac pose as an iOS 5 iPad (via Safari 's User Agent setting ). This fixed the color but introduced unacceptable screen formatting problems.
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About the hardware calibration system with the Macbook Pro display

I hope someone can help me out with a calibration problem I'm having. When I wake up my macbook from sleep (running OS X) the system automatically calibrates it and you can quickly see it switch from a blue tint to the proper colour profile. This is fine. However, I've installed Windows XP Pro via Bootcamp and the blue tint is there, the colours aren't right and this makes it particularly difficult for photo editing.
At first I thought it might just be me so I installed "VMWare Fusion" and ran Windows from a virtual drive. Since it was using OSX's calibration the colours were perfect. Is there any way to access monitor controls or a way to fix this? Software tweaks with the nVidia control panel don't make a difference. I've adjusted the gamma and had a go with the B/C settings but no luck. I think it is apparent that this is a problem with the firmware or something deeper than anything a software tweak could fix, judging by the auto-calibration during wake-up.

ctschach sez: "Well, you'll need a proper profile for WindowXP which will be loaded during the startup - there are no default profiles included in WindowsXP."
Yup! This is what is happening:
When you are in Mac OS X you are able to use ColorSync. In the Displays preference pane under 'color' you are able to choose or create your own color profile for the operating system to use for your display. When the OS is running, it is using your chosen display color profile.
Now you boot, via Bootcamp, into Windows. There is no ColorSync in Windows. The color profile your display was using in Mac OS X is still in Mac OS X. Windows hasn't got a clue about it. This has N O T H I N G to do with hardware. This issue is about getting a software color calibration profile for your display while you are running Windows.
So what does Microsoft offer in XP? It's time to go visit Microsoft to answer than question! I won't do your homework for you, but this will get you started:
http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&form=MSHOME&setlang=en-US&q=W indowsXP+colorcalibration&x=8&y=7
Next issue: Is it worth buying a colorimeter for an Apple laptop? --> NO WAY!
(A) They are exorbitantly expensive.
(B) They are a total waste on a MacBook or MacBook Pro. The Apple laptop LCD displays cannot do 24 bit 'millions of colors' despite what you have read. They can only do 18 bit color (6 bits per Red, Green, Blue). The OS then uses dithering to fake the missing colors. Therefore, they are lousy for doing color management. The best you are going to get is a guestimation of what the image really looks like. You might as well just use what Apple provides for creating your own calibration in the Display preference pane under 'color'.
It would be much better to judge color with a calibrated Apple Cinema Display, which uses actual 24 bit color, or even better use a calibrated good quality CRT, still considered the optimum display for color management.
I have posted a brief dissertation about color management on LCD displays in response to a few queries in this group already, so I won't post it again. If anyone would like a copy, just bounce me a note.
:-Derek

Monitor/ printer calibration

are there people who will come to your home and do the calibration for you(I am in NYC)

Yes, but...
1) Monitor calibration/profiling is something you need to stay on top of and perform on a regular basis (weekly, monthly - opinions vary - but regularly). For that reason, it would be worth your investing in a hardware/software profiling bundle ($200 - $300) so you can do it yourself. It's easy.
Xrite EyeOne Display 2 is a good start.
2) Printer profiling is a bit more complex and requires more knowledge and more expensive hardware and software - not worth your purchasing. Yes, you can definitely find someone to profile your printer. The process is easy - you print a target on your printer, send it to the person creating the profile, and they email the profile to you. A house call is not necessary. You can work with someone local, or use an on-line service.
One of the best is www.chromix.com. Look at their ColorValet profiling service. They walk you through the process - very straightforward.

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