Calibrating your monitor(s) in Win7

Just in case others are not aware of it..
There is an effective way to calibrate your monitor(s) in Win7.
Control Panel >Color Management
(Still wading my way thru' WIN 7 and I stumbled upon it while trying to calibrate my monitor(s))
I dont think it existed in XP but could be wrong.

It does take a while to get used to a few things inWIN 7 as you point out!.
I think I found three ways to get to the Color Management application because I lost it after first stumbling on it.
Not in front of my WIN7 system at the moment but still pretty certain I had 'Color Mangement' directly in the Control Panerl as an Icon. (maybe wrong about that though)
FWIW. I set up my desk top and my external monitors using this function. I used images as well as Color Bars (pluges) for the purpose and very quickly achieved a respectable similarity in the comparative "look" between them despite the different brands and technologies..
Warm up your monitors well before calibrating. (It makes adifference).
Another issue or factor to be considered is the angle of viewing of the monitors. Some have more of an acceptance range than others. Be aware that moving your head and angle around is not "calibrating" anything.

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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 ?
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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.
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>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
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