Calibrate widescreen monitor for photoshop

The photo on screen is not exactly the same as the printed photo.How do I print with "Photoshop CS3 governing printer" using DELL CN-OU4941-72201-4CO-763L calibrated (with x-rite eye-one display 2) on HP Photosmart C7283 All-in-One printer?

when you have three threads going it is good to link them up so people don't waste their time...just a suggestion
Printed photoes are not equal to calibrated screen
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/944486
With a calibrated screen and Photoshop CS3 I am not getting the printed photo accurately.Why?
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/944049
it is most likely that your print settings do not equal your print environment because you have a hardware 'calibrated' monitor
there are a lot of photoshop CS3 printing tutorials on the web, try adding "Photoshop Manages Colors" to your search

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Advice needed on monitor for Photoshop and Lightroom use

Hi. I am aserious amature photographer wishing to move to the next level and sell some of my work.
I just had a custom pc built to work with the new copies of Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 I bought (lots or RAM and HD space, ssd, etc....)
The last piece of my system is to purchase a monitor. I want to be somewhere in the better then Best Buy but less than NEC/Eizo range in price, or between $500 - $900. I have worked with cameras since the early 80's and moved to digital several years ago but the only post processing I have done is with Photoshop Elements. I would be doing mostly prints to sell but also need to have a web site to do so. Will also use the pc for daily net surfing... but do not game or watch a lot of video on the pc.
Being really new to this whole process I have a few questions.
The first thing I need to decide is whether I need to look for a wide gamut display or not.
I realize the whole chain must be 10 bit (Adobe -OS - graphics driver - graphics card - display port.
I have Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3, Win7 64 bit, Zotac ZT 50701 10M video card (which uses GeForce GTX 560 fermi and an nvidia chipset. It does have displayport). I am having a hard time determining whether my video card actually supports wide gamut (10bit).
Standard vs Wide Gamut? Is wide gamut important enough to deal with the issues it brings (calibration, viewing things other than PS and LR or color managed, which appear to be rare?) Is sRGB good enough for most prints (don't do fine art, mostly nature and portraits but starting to do some HRD things). If wide gamut is the way to go I have no problem with that and have the time to learn about calibration, color management, etc... But I also want to make sure the juice is worth the squeeze.
24" vs 27"? Is there any advantage to one or the other when editing photos?
IPS vs PLS? I realize they are similar but are there differences worth noting?
Glossy vs Matte Anti-Glare? seems to be a lot of comments regarding the anti-glare coating, mostly poor. Yet I can see issues using a glossy screen in my study with a window to my back.
One manufacturer vs another? I realize Eizo, NEC and LaCie are at the top of the heap. But with my budget, after upgrading my pc and camera equipment, I can't make that work now. So I need to choose from the next group down (Dell, HP, Samsung, Asus...)
One or two monitors? It looks like many (mid-grade) wide gamut monitors do a lousy job of displaying anything but color managed sites. Is that necessarily true of all the mid-grades? Or can some be used for graphics but as well for routine net surfing, MS Office, etc...? Or am I better off getting two monitors, one for graphics and one for the rest? That would pretty much limit me to 24" or less given my budget (used to using a Dell 21" TN monitor that oddly crapped out just as my new pc was done).
The more I read reviews the more confusing it gets. There seems to be a difference of opinion even among pros on whether to go wide gamut or stick with an easier sRGB. Realizing a standard gamut monitor would be cheaper, I do want to make the right decision up front, given my budget.
The one thing I have found astounding is that there is nowhere to actually see many of the monitors I am considering. We live in Nashville TN but my wife is from Atlanta Ga so we drove there a few weeks ago to visit family and for me to visit monitor shops. Even the largest ones there (Fry's and Microcenter) had minimal IPS monitors, a few Dells and HP's. The knowledge of their sales folks was so poor I finally gave up. Felt bad about this until I posted this on another board and got a reply from a guy in LA (second largest city in the US) that he wanted to see a particular monitor and there was no place even there to do so.
Anyhow, here is what I have considered:
24" Wide Gamut: Dell U2410 and Asus PA246Q. Dells appear to be good IF you get a good one. The Asus appears to be a clone of the Dell that gets a lot of good press.
27" Wide Gamut: Dell U2711 that also gets a ton of good reviews
24: Standard Gamut: Dell U2412 and HP ZR2440.
27" Standard Gamut: Samsung S27A850D and Apple Cinema- The Samsung uses PLS technology versus IPS while the Apple is a glossy screen that will work with a pc.
Sorry for the long post. Any comments are greatly appreciated.

dkg62 wrote:
I realize the whole chain must be 10 bit
Not trying to talk you out of setting up a 10 bit pipeline, but it's still not very mature, and it really isn't a necessity to get a good editing experience.
Personally I find advantage in using two 4:3 ratio monitors for Photoshop work. All my panels are on the right monitor, while pretty much the entire left one shows the Photoshop main window and the working canvas space. My desktop is 3200 x 1200 pixels overall, and I find having the panels remain visible all the time is important.
Regarding whether a wide gamut is important... Will you be printing to devices that deliver a wide gamut? What other things will you be doing with your system?
It's not a no-brainer whether a wider gamut monitor is always "better" for everything, since it can accentuate the differences between the output from color-managed and non-color-managed applications, and it's definitely true that not everything is color-managed. With a monitor that's close to sRGB, for example, you might find Internet Explorer output acceptable, while using a wide gamut monitor will result in garishly oversaturated IE displays. On the other hand, FireFox (with a settings tweak) seems to get color management right, so there is an alternative.
I think, as John has implied above, you should work to get your head completely around how color-management works, soup to nuts. If you don't, there will always be things that are a mystery or which surprise you at the wrong times. Being able to order a print and have it come back with the expected color can be very important, as you might imagine.
-Noel

I cannot afford an iMac, can anyone recommend a widescreen Monitor for my 15" MacBook Pro. It would be used mainly for iPhoto and Aperture.

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Pair a wireless KB with the laptop and all should be well when you attach the laptop to the iMac and invoke TDM. But as Denny mentions, it does seem like the waste of a good iMac to use it in just this configuration. Why is the laptop primary?

Best Monitor for Photoshop??

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone can suggest what the best monitors for photoshop digital painting/editing etc are at the moment??
I still use a crt as I've heard years ago that their colour depth were alot better than lcd's or tft's that were around then. I'd assume that's no longer the case. Can someone please suggest what the best monitors currently are?
I'm also considering using a 42 inch Pioneer PDP 4280XD full HD 1080P flatscreen Television as a monitor. Would anyone know how that would work in compared to a good quality monitor?
Thanks for any help in advance!

A 42" TV is not a good solution, innacurate colors, huge pixels.
Get a LCD, with a IPS or a MVA or PVA panel, with LED backlighting if you can afford it.
The 22" are usually TN change color according to the angle of vision, and dither some colors. They are cheaper, but not a good choice (you said "best"
Lots of users go for 24" Dells, for the price and quality.
I use two 24" when I can, with one portrait, the other landscape. Useful when one uses bridge to keyword pictures, or simply to review photos the way they were shot.
Top of the crop are Eizo, NEC.
There are places with comparative tests...

Good low-cost widescreen monitor for one-screen editing?

Hello, I'm on a tight budget, looking for a widescreen monitor that is a good blend of low-cost but good quality (if possible!).
I will be doing all my work off this single monitor. I will unfortunately NOT be able to have a dual-monitor setup, nor have an external reference monitor. I will be editing HDV footage.
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It is a PVA screen with dual DVI and a D-sub connector.
I use three of them and they give me a good BFTB, "Bang-for-the-Buck".
If you consider the various panels in use, they go from low to high in quality, TN >> PVA >> IPS.

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Thanks for any suggestions?
Hersch Pilloff [email protected]

Some devices will calibrate/profile only monitors, some (more expensive ones) will also profile printers. Profiling printers is not so important to most people.
Older devices (e.g. Eye One Display 2, Spyder 2) are not suitable for wide-gamut displays.
There are no special requirements for Lightroom or Windows 7.
Google for reviews such as http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/reviews.html#Monitor_profiling

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I have a 23inch older apple cinema display and ive calibrated it with a spyder2express but It does not seem to always be consistent. I don't need a professional setup I just want a roughly calibrated consistent monitor that i can trust is the same. This project will mostly be on blu Ray and DVDs. I was wondering if maybe since the apple monitor is older that it may have issues with consistency? After it warms up or anything. Would I be better with a LCD tv as a reference monitor that I calibrate with the spyder since it's where the final project will be seen? Or a newer HD monitor? I know some of the non apples are getting cheaper.
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A search of this forum will reveal a large number of threads, the gist of which reduce to:
The Spyder2Express is a calibration tool for photographers consequently not appropriate for use in video and the Apple Cinema Display is one of the worst possible solutions for grading digital media. Old ones worse so, but you already know that, but this is pretty much universally true of all graphics displays.
COLOR is tailored for broadcast use with CCIR709 guidelines as its preset, and unchangeable, output standard for Quicktime workflows. Unless you are working under Snow Leopard you will experience gamma consistency problems between COLOR and all the other Final Cut Studio applications. There are innumerable threads covering that issue.
You will likely not be able to calibrate a regular LCD monitor with the Spyder since it cannot operate at the low levels generated at broadcast standard biases. In other words it will not be able to do a "black balance", and it is unlikely that you will be able to set your monitor to the recommended brightness used by broadcasters, so a "white balance" is probably out of reach as well. Nearly all consumer "TVs" employ "dynamic contrast" to sweeten distributed media, so they are disqualified for professional use.
jPo

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Noel Carboni wrote:
I'd like to hear your opinion of your new monitor when you get it.
Well, it was a bit of a disappointment. There is a slight color gradient across the screen, from cool (cyan) at one end to warm (red) at the other. Nothing dramatic, but being able to trust even the most delicate adjustments was what I wanted an IPS panel for in the first place. Otherwise, the Dell's performance seems very good, but the color gradient issue killed my initial enthusiasm, and I'll try to get it replaced.
My trusted Eizo with its P-VA panel has its own weaknesses - as Eizos go it's low-end - but it is perfectly even across the entire screen, all the way out to the corners. The comparison is not unjust since they cost about the same.
Anyway, the main reason for updating this thread was that I discovered that there are some quite inexpensive IPS monitors out there. In particular, there seems to be a "new generation" of standard gamut models, one of which is the new Dell U2412, that should be within reach for anyone. Another is the HP ZR24W, and NEC has a 23" called EA232WM. In general, reducing screen size to 22" or 23" will save a lot of money.
Another thing I've discovered is that brand name isn't all that important. The panels themselves come from only a small handful of manufacturers, and IPS panels all come from LG electronics. The Dell U2410 uses the exact same panel as the HP LP2475W, and probably many others.

Best Mac monitor for CS3?

Hope this isn't an old topic.
Which is the best monitor for Photoshop...that is the truest color? Matte front glass?
Is Apple planning upgrades to their current offerings..The 30" is tempting...

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If so and if you know which one(s), can you disable it(them)?
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Your post gets my vote for the most confusing post of the year.
For the record: if you can monitor digital, phase(hue) is irrelevant but chroma level is important, as well as your white/black points. Therefore, yes, you must calibrate you monitor for white/black/chroma levels.

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First of all, dpi is meaningless for screen graphics (ie, the
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I've made a number of Flash demos to be played on monitors at
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Product Name and number: HP Pavillion Dv6-1361sb
Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
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What does HP recommend as a high quality (HP of course) external monitor for photo work with combination and are there any restrictions such as resolution restraints to be wary of?

Hi,
Depending on your requirement and how much you are willing to pay. The one which can calibrate colors for photoshop normally more expensive than others. Your machine should be able to handle all normal monitors in the market today.
You can find out more from this:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2214728
Regards,
BH
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