Calibrating the monitor

I've been trying to calibrate my brand new LX835-D3380 but I can't even get to adjust the brightness and contrast. I see little buttons for that purpose on the left side but they don't seem to respond and the function keys don't work either. Any help is welcome.
Thanks

Running this command from the terminal
ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
Will return your LCD panel manufacturer model number. Googeling that will turn up the data sheet for the panel.
So on my iMac I get
Pandora:~ frank$ ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
LM215WF3-SLA1
Color LCD
Pandora:~ frank$
Googleing LM215WF3-SLA1 I get a lot of information such as
So my monitors backlighting is white LED (WLED)
As for gamut I am almost positive t(like 99.999&) that all Mac monitiors are standard.

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Calibrating the monitor. Need help!

I just bought a 27" iMac.
I am using a Spyder4Pro to calibrate the monitor.
I need to know two things:
1. Is the monitor wide gamut or standard gamut?
2. What is the backlight type (Flouresecent, White LED, or RBG LED)?
Thanks in advance to anyone that can help!
-Brian

Running this command from the terminal
ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
Will return your LCD panel manufacturer model number. Googeling that will turn up the data sheet for the panel.
So on my iMac I get
Pandora:~ frank$ ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
LM215WF3-SLA1
Color LCD
Pandora:~ frank$
Googleing LM215WF3-SLA1 I get a lot of information such as
So my monitors backlighting is white LED (WLED)
As for gamut I am almost positive t(like 99.999&) that all Mac monitiors are standard.

I have been having a issue with getting the colors on my monitor to match the colors fro my print lab. I now have the monitor calibrated to match the prints but when I open elements it doesn't use the same colors. If i have it use the calibrated profile b

I have been having a issue with getting the colors on my monitor to match the colors fro my print lab. I now have the monitor calibrated to match the prints but when I open elements it doesn't use the same colors. If i have it use the calibrated profile by changing the color management settings, the color picker no longer shows true white or black. How do I get elements 12 to honor the new calibrated settings?

Ok so I've done what you said and this is what it's come back ....
I don't know that these are the errors , but they're the things which don't look right ...
Throughout the shut down there is a recurring line ;
It says ;
Com.apple.launchd 1 0x100600e70.anonymous.unmount 301 PID still valid
Then there are 2 more which I think are related ;
Com.apple.securityd 29 PID job has I overstayed its welcome , forcing removal.
Then the same with fseventd 48 and diskarbitrationd 13
Oh and on Launchd1 : System : stray anonymous job at shut down : PID 301 PPID13 PGID 13 unmount...
Then the last process says "about to call: reboot (RB_AUTOBOOT).
Continuing...
And stops ...
Hope this means something to you ... Thanks again for your help so far :-)

Every single time I power up photoshop CC get an error. says " the monitor profile "acer S201HL" appears to be defective. Please rerun your monitor calibration software. How do I fix this?

Every single time I power up photoshop CC get an error. says " the monitor profile "acer S201HL" appears to be defective. Please rerun your monitor calibration software. How do I fix this?

Your factory-supplied monitor profile, associated with your monitor by the operating system, is bad. It's more common than you'd think.
To avert the error:
Open the Color Management panel of your Windows operating system. In the Devices tab, if it is not already listed [ Add... ] the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile and [ Set as default Profile ].
After doing the above, log out of Windows and back in again, just to ensure everything's updated.
Note that the above assumes your monitor is more or less displaying color in the sRGB color space (sRGB is short for sRGB IEC61966-2.1). For many monitors this isn't a terribly wrong assumption.
If you want to ensure you have the most accurate color, consider buying a calibration and profiling device, which (with its associated software) can set your calibration and generate custom color profiles by doing actual measurements from your monitor. You'll want to take some time to get your mind around how color-management works, and that is not a trivial task. It's certainly well beyond what can be taught in a forum post by post.
Good luck.
-Noel

Calibrating the 5K monitor

Im a photographer and just switched from PC to iMac. I print on Fine Art paper using a Epson 3880. My prints are darker than my display. How do I calibrate the monitor? Do Calibrate the monitor? any advise?

In addition to the calibration what color profile are embedded in your image files. If they have the Adobe RGB profile the images will tend to print darker and a bit muddy on inkjet printers. You would want to use the Camera RGB, Generic RGB or the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile.
You can use the ColorSync Utility to compare the profiles to see the differences.

I am interested in mirroring my calibrated mac monitor to a led tv but the tv profile takes over and negates my monitor profile. I want both to be calibrated to the same standard. Suggestions?

I am interested in mirroring my calibrated mac monitor to a led tv but the tv profile takes over and negates my monitor profile. I want both to be calibrated to the same standard. Suggestions?

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Calibrating my Monitor question

Hello everyone
I am trying to calibrate my JVC monitor
i am following the instructions to a link mentioned in one of the threads
i generated a color bar in finalcut and brought it to the timeline
i see it on my monitor, i turned the chroma all the way down and the contrast to the middle
I Canot see these three lines on my monitor-
Three Picture Lineup Generating Equipment bars on the bottom right called PLuGE bars.
any suggestions
Danny

Great article. I copied the section relevant to my situation below:
Accurate Video Monitoring
To ensure accurate video monitoring, your video monitor should be correctly calibrated to your system. The key thing to remember is that the “Brightness” control on your monitor should more correctly be labeled “Black Level”. The setting of the black level control on your monitor will determine which analogue voltage you the viewer will perceive as black when you view the image on the monitor. By adjusting this control correctly you can calibrate your monitor to show you a true image whether your DV deck, for instance, adds 7.5 IRE setup correctly or not to it’s analogue outputs.
Problems can occur when you monitor multiple video sources through the same monitor, for instance an analogue deck and a digital deck. In this situation, if the digital deck does not correctly add 7.5 IRE setup, you would need two different monitor calibrations, which is tricky to achieve. The solution is to add a “proc amp”, an analogue video manipulation device that can raise the analogue output from the digital deck by 7.5 IRE, making up for the lack of such circuitry inside the deck itself.
I have a JVC deck that DOES correctly add 7.5 IRE Setup if needed, but this ONLY matters if I'm dubbing to an analogue format, correct? If I'm just monitoring through a broadcast monitor to color correct in Final Cut Pro, I should:
-use the 7.5 IRE Setup switch on the JVC deck
-calibrate the monitor to 7.5 IRE being the darkest black
My question still is, what is the 7.5 IRE Setup switch on the monitor for? Should both switches be on, or does that add 7.5 IRE twice? My gut is that the monitor 7.5 IRE switch also adds 7.5 IRE and thus should be off, provided the JVC deck 7.5 IRE switch is on.
Is anyone following me?
Thanks.

CALIBRATING LCD MONITORS IN YOUR WORKFLOW

HEY
WONDERING IF ANYONE IF CALIBRATING THEIR APPLE LCDS WITH ANYTHING LIKE THE EYEONE OR PANTONE STUFF BEING THAT THE COLOR OR NTSC DIFFERS AS WELL AS A REGULAR CRT ?
ARE YOU SEEING BIG DIFFERENCES AND WHAT ARE YOU USING TO CALIBRATE THEM WITH.
IM NOT TALKING ABOUT CALIBRATING NTSC MONITORS JUST LCD'S.
G5 2.5,QUAD,MBPRO 17 , PBG4 15 Mac OS X (10.4.8) FCP STUDIO , SHAKE, AE 7

First off, take off your caps lock. Shouting won't get you far here.
Second, I used the Pantone to calibrate my Dell 2405 monitors, and they look good. The stuff I do in Photoshop comes out lookng right.
BUT...you cannot calibrate a computer monitor (LCD or CRT) to match the gamma characteristics of a broadcast monitor. You can come pretty close, but there will be a noticable difference.
Are you trying to use a computer monitor to color correct a show for broadcast?
Shane

Prints dont look like the image on the monitor

I have tried everything I can think of--I'm desperate for help!
Heres what I have and my workflow
Windows 7/64
All drivers and software are up to date.
Photos taken with 5D Mark iii in Raw
Developed in Camera Raw
Tweaked in CS6
Color space is 1998 RGB
Saved as jpeg
Using a Lenovo Desktop- Ideacenter B520
Printer is Epson R3000
Monitor and printer are calibrated with Colormunki Photo.
In photoshop I softproof using the profile created with colormunki and the image looks excellent.
Whn I print, I choose "photoshop manages colors", and in the printer setting I make sure color management is turned off. The prints look very dull and washed out. I make sure the correct printer profile is chosen (the one created with colormunki for the specific paper I use)
Bust, if using the same image, I choose "Printer manages colors", and then in the printer color management choose "Adobe 1998", the brints look wonderful.
What am I doing the is causing Photoshop manages colors to look worse than printer manages colors, when in both cases the image looks great on the monitor?
Thanks so much

you could probably start by posting a screenshot of
Photoshop> File> Print (window)
and
Photoshop> File> Print> Print Settings> Basic (window)
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Lightroom not using the Monitor Profile

I have recently set up a new computer with a new monitor. When I got PS and Lightroom set up on the new system I noticed that when viewing photos in both applications the colors are VERY different compared to how they look viewed online or in another photo viewer from my desktop (windows 8). I also noticed that when I opened PS I got a message saying that the Monitor Profile is "bad" and I could opt out to ignore the profile. When I did ignore it the color looks fine. Blacks are black, gray's are gray, etc . . . Anyway, I am wondering if there is a way I can have Lightroom ignore the profile as well. I have a monitor calibrator and I will try that, but I am wondering if it will do anything only because other applications look fine. Hope someone can shed some light on this!

First of all, Photoshop and Lightroom are fully color managed applications that will actually use the monitor profile to display the image.Many other applications (viewers/browsers) are not and will just ignore it. So there's a difference right there.
That said, when you get that message in Photoshop, it means exactly what it says. That profile is bad and should not be used.
The real solution is to use a calibrator to make a new custom profile for your monitor. Until you get that up and running, use sRGB IEC61966-22.1 as monitor profile. You set this up in Control Panel > Color Management > Devices:

Photos dont match the monitor

I have read through discussions on this but am still doing something wrong apparently.
I have a Lenovo Ideacenter all in 1 (520), and an Epson R3000.
My monitor is calibrated with ColorMunki.
I shoot in Adobe RGB and use that color space in Photoshop CS6.
After edits, I softproof by choosing custom, and then select the profile of the epson glossy paper that I use.
I choose photoshop manages colors and make sure printer color adjustments are off.
My prints look nothing like the monitor. Very dull and washed out. I feel like I'm doing the right things but what could I be missing?
Many thanks
ps if there is a better forum for this by all means let me know

http://www.gballard.net/psd/cmstheory.html

Calibrating my monitor with other monitors

I have calibrated my monitor so that output to my personal printer is spot-on. But when I give a CD of digital images that look good on my monitor to someone else, they look washed-out on his/her monitor. Is there a way to standardize monitors, LCD or CRT or TV, Mac and PC?
Also, is there a way of sending a file of my monitor's calibration so that an end user can "plug it in" to their monitor settings so his/her photos can look similar to how I saw them?
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Each monitor, even lcd monitors are slightly different. So even if you did send a profile,they would still not exactly match. The easiest way is to buy a monitor calibrator and each of you calibrate your monitors with it. That would be the closest match possible.
Glor

How do you calibrate the monitor??

for graphic design, the monitor's calibration is way off. but i can't figure out how to calibrate it!@#$%
PLEASE HELP
I can't be the only guy out there with this issue...
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Hi,
Please try:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/calibrate-your-display
As a graphic designer, I would not use the screen of an AIO machine to do my work, I need a proper screen which may cost hundreds dollars more.
Regards.
BH
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I need to reset the monitor profile. It is being overiden and too dark

Something is overiding the color profile upon start up. After migrating files from one macbook pro to another, the same corrupted startup monitor profile is making the screen dark, on one user profile. The other admin profiles are fine.
I bought a new computer because I thought the monitor was going bad. But now it appears that it is a startup color profile hidden somewhere. I have deleted the Color LCD-4272040.icc profile many times. It keeps coming back on the corrupted user library, so this file is generated globally with every log in..
Where is this overiding file? it needs to get trashed.

I need to add, this "startup "profile" is placing the overall color ramp in 'front" of the calibration, therefore you can not set the monitor back to a factory "no profile" setting. producing a new color profile does not work. VERY frustrating

LR Color Management - Calibration and Monitor (not your typical post)

Hi everybody,
I see that there are still many issues around color management and printing in LR. I have had similar problems in past and Im still trying to work though them. The most touted problem is not calibrating or having a bad monitor profile. Well, I have tried calibrating my display with worse results. I get better results with an un-calibrated display, not exact results, but closer than with a calibrated display. My only computer is a Dell Latitude D830 with an LCD display and Nvidia Quadro 140M graphics card with a Spyder2 Suite calibration tool.
After doing a fair bit of research online and speaking to other photographers (pro and amateur) Ive learned that laptop displays are notoriously difficult to calibrate due to their inability to display a wide range of color and contrast. There is also no way to adjust white point, RGB or any other setting on my display, only brightness and contrast. (perhaps a big part of the problem?)
I was told that only high end displays (NEC, LaCie, Eizo etc @ $1000,00 this being the low end, and up) were the only way to get accurate colors. Others had said that LG and Samsung make a decent display at the $300.00 price point that would deliver good results but not pro level color management. Other than that go, back to an old CRT display. What is a semi-pro level display that renders excellent color that I wont have to re-mortgage my house to pay for?
So heres my question to all of those who have said you need to calibrate and you have a bad profile can you please tell us your system set up (i.e. display, calibration tool, room lighting and set up etc..)?
Im really interested in what you are doing more, better or differently than everyone else.
Thanks,
DC

>Im really interested in what you are doing more, better or differently than everyone else.
Nothing much. Same calibrator in addition to another Huey Pro which gives almost indistinguishable results. I use both a Apple Mac Book Pro and a Mac Pro with a 30" DELL wide gamut adobeRGB display. Colors on the two are identical (if they're not outside of the laptop's gamut) and identical to prints from labs and direct prints. Of course these displays are between far better and quite a bit better than the display on a typical Dell laptop that are notoriously bad. One of the things I have to do on the laptop is to get the display at the right angle. The trick I use is to have a window open with this image: http://www.normankoren.com/monitor_test_txt22.png
from this website: http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html
If you're looking at your monitor at the right angle and you have calibrated the display correctly, the color should look homogeneous (i.e. completely neutral and the same grey everywhere). If you cannot find an angle at which this is correct, than it is likely your monitor can simply not be calibrated or that your calibrator is defective (there was a batch of defective Spyders a while ago). In general, it is certainly not true that laptop displays cannot be calibrated.
>I was told that only high end displays (NEC, LaCie, Eizo etc @ $1000,00 this being the low end, and up) were the only way to get accurate colors. Others had said that LG and Samsung make a decent display at the $300.00 price point that would deliver good results but not pro level color management.
They are quite wrong and a rather snooty thing to say. The point of these high priced displays is that they will give better color in [B]non[/B]-colormanaged applications, but with a good calibrator, a reasonably good screen and [B]correct color management [/B](such as that in Lightroom, Photoshop, preview.app, Safari, etc.) you will get about as good color as the more expensive displays. Some of these, such as the EIZO give you wider gamuts higher bit color, or hardware adjustable white point, which are also a major selling points if you're doing very critical work but only if paired with good calibration and managed apps. Pro level color management is a function of the calibrator and the software - and only in part of the display. Most displays, with a few exceptions, can be made to give good color, as long as you use a hardware calibrator and managed apps.

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