Dual monitor calibration

Hello,
For a few days I struggle to calibrate my dual monitor setup (Dell XPS15 laptop and Dell S2240M monitor). I used Eye-One to calibrate them and I'm pretty happy with laptop monitor profile, but the external one looks too cold and greenish. However I LOVE how Photoshop changes the colors when I drag a photo on the external monitor (at first its greenish, but then it adjusts and looks great). I don't quite understand how this all color profiles thing works and how Photoshop uses profile of the primary monitor (that's what I remember from reading somewhere). So I wonder if there is any possibility to adjust the external monitor like Photoshop does?
Any ideas?
Thanks

You are talking about ICC Profiles and that can be done for each display in Windows 7 ICC Profile Settings. The explanation from Microsft is here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/change-color-management-settings
Eric
ADK

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If I have a dual monitor setup (non-mirrored) can I assign each monitor its own monitor colour profile? or would I only be able to pick one and it applied it to both?
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Hi 75
Yes! Open the Display Preference and go to the NTSC/PAL panel for the attached display, then calibrate it just like you did the Internal.
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hy everyone hope your having a nice day
i am working on a macpro 5.1 station with ATI Radeon 5870 video card and 2x 27 " inch led display from apple
and i would like to know how to adjust the color of the led displays and color match them
the reason for that i'm a colorist for a special FX postproduction house and i have to do
a job on the Autodesk Smoke on Mac using the color correction soft effect
so since they are no adjustment control on the display i assume it is done software wise or with a sensor plug-in
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patricebarrette wrote:
so since they are no adjustment control on the display i assume it is done software wise or with a sensor plug-in
patricebarrette wrote:
and by the way does anyone know wich is the best monitor to do color correction on a mac ( minimum 24 inch)
For high-end quality the monitor should not be adjusted by hand. That's why pro monitors usually have few controls. The calibration is done precisely using a lookup table generated by calibration software. In addition to the Datacolor idea above, X-Rite has a number of display calibrators used by professionals. You should ask them which one is best for matching multiple monitors, because not all software can match two monitors.
patricebarrette wrote:
and by the way does anyone know wich is the best monitor to do color correction on a mac ( minimum 24 inch)
The ones often recommended are the high-end Eizo monitors (expensive) or NEC PA series. These are better than any monitor ever made by Apple.

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I recently got a second monitor and have it set up for an extended desktop. I calibrated it because it was too bright and while this works most of the time I do find that seemingly at random the display settings will revert back to the defaults. This usually will happen when the monitors go into energy saver mode or the computer goes to sleep. When I go back into the display settings it loads the display settings right away.
Is this an issue with Leopard or the monitor setup.
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Hi,
Is it just the brightness that changes?
you could try deselecting "adjust brightness as ambient light changes"
in display settings.
DM

A tiny bit OT: Recommendations for Dual Monitor Calibration?

I've owned my little Huey Pro since it was a mere Huey jnr. (You had to give Pantone money and they magiced into a Pro) It’s given decent service for the price (not very much) but has never been particularly flash calibrating a second monitor. Today I upgraded my 19 inch 4:3 Philips with a 24inch 1920x1200 LG, and while the Huey still does a decent job with my 30inch Dell main screen, the is LG miles out!
It turns out to be a known problem, and mine is now too bad to live with. So what do y’all use that can handle multiple screens, and wouldn’t need me to take out a mortgage to buy?

All good stuff 21, but when it has finished doing all that foreign language stuff, will it calibrate my computer screens?
But seriously, thanks for the info. I don't what video LUT is, and I back off double quick when I see Eizo mentioned:
www.bornrich.com/eizo-debut-35000-lcd-monitor-multiple-screens.html
The i1 is being sold for NZ$500 here, and since Christmas I have put >NZ$1600 into sorting my computer out, and I'd prefer to delay this a month or so. Fortunately I have no video projects on the go, so the second monitor is not colour critical right now.
What about the Color Munki Smile? Keith Cooper over on Northlight was more or less positive about it, and he is someone I trust.
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/reviews/profiling/colormunki_smile.html
I don't do a lot of printing, and when I do I use Canon's Easy Photo Print Pro, because it always gets it right without and hassle. Perhaps I'll go ask on the PremPro Hardware forum, and on DVInfo, because video is probably the most colour critical use of that second screen.
Thanks for you help.

Dual monitors calibration

hello everybody,
I've been trying since 2 days to find a solution with the calibration of both my monitors.
With mountain lion, there is a bug. I can choose a profil or calibrate the left monitor but the right no....
When I change the parameters of the right monitor, the modifications are applied to the left !!! it's crazy !!!
Does anybody have the same problem or rather the soluton ???
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Hi,
I also wrestled with this problem for a long time now but I think I found a solution.
I'm using:
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- Software is 10.7.5
- X-rite I-display pro screen calibrator
- 2 x 24inch screen Samsung Syncmaster BX 2440 connected via DVI connection. Exactly the same screens
So what have I done:
Step 1
- Shut down MAC
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- Close all prg's and shut down computer
Step 2
- Disconnect screen 1 - or switch off so MAC only sees 1 screen
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- DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING under screen preference like colors etc
- Close all prg's and agin shut down computer
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- Now Connect both screens to the cables or connection on which you did the calibration. so no swapping.
- Start up your MAC
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On my siutation the result was excellent. I always had problems with inconsistant colors between the screens. Left screen was always greenish and teh right screen always reddish instead of grey.
If this procedure is OK for other situations I really do not know but I thought I let you all know and maybe help.
regards
Andre (from Holland :-)

DUAL MONITOR BUG: One Picture – One Monitor – Different Colors!

There have been several threads discussing that Photoshop CS4 and OS 10.6. show wrong colors in dual monitor setups.
The first one to prove this with a screen capture was jb510-LJ0JJQ in August 2009: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2207312#2207312
Eight months and three OS updates later the problem is still there and makes professional work with more than one monitor a nuisance.
Here's another actual example: A picture and its 100% identical copy showing different colors on one screen!
Here's how to repeat it – try this at home ;-)
1) In the finder make a copy of a rgb picture.
2) Open one of the two identical pics in photoshop.
3) Drag it to the other monitor.
When releasing the mouse button you may see the bug already: the colors will "switch".
4) To verify this go to system presets - monitors - and change the primary monitor (by dragging the menu bar to the other)
5) Now open the identical copy you made in step 1) and see the difference!
Here's a synopsis of suggested workarounds:
1) disable open GL (which seem to makes no difference on my setup)
2) click "desaturate monitor colors" but set desaturation to 0 (which prevents visual switching in step 3) (only if openGL is ON) but also leads to a wrong display in step 4+5
3) make the hardware calibrated monitor your default monitor and strictly avoid changes or dragging pics to the other monitor (which seems to be the only reliable method)
4) some guys even force both monitors to use the profile of their hardware-calibrated monitor (using color sync) to make sure they see what they should see on at least that one monitor. What a stone-age workaround for the the world's leading imaging program!
Considering that reliable colors in professional (=multi monitor) settings should be the most basic function of photoshop this mayor malfunction should be solved with CS5! Otherwise we might have to live with it for some more years...
Have Adobe and Apple realized this bug and on their agenda? Will it be gone with OS 10.6.3? Can anyone explain the reasons for this bad bug? Is there a "officially" recommended workaround?
Thanks, regards,
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There have been several threads dealing with this malfunction. But most faded out in silence or acceptance of the workarounds.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2207312#2207312
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/521483
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2272192#2272192
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/311761?start=0&tstart=0
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/618927?tstart=60
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/603992?tstart=90
http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=552977
http://www.hilfdirselbst.ch/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=368889?search_string=zwei%20monitor#368 889
But man, this is no minor bug! Consistent colors are the by far most important basic function of photoshop. If you cannot rely on the colors in photoshop you can as well use "Preview" and "Word" for print production ;-)
Carson, how did Apple react to your complaint? What do you mean with "they don't get it". Do they not see it? Or can't they get it right?
Shall we open a thread at apple forums to point out that it's not the problem of a single user?

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Hello,
I've searched the forums and I can't find an answer to my problem. I've read about dual monitor setups in Windows and how to set the defaults and whatnot, but it doesn't seem to fix my problem.
I am running on an nVidia GeForce 8600M GT, Windows 7 x64, Photoshop CS4 x64. I calibrated my main display (Dell Vostro 1700) as well as the attached monitor (ASUS VK246H) using Datacolor Spyder3Elite. Both monitor profiles seem to load just fine. I've also went into Windows' color manager and set the system defaults for each monitor respectively. The problem I'm having is that if I were to load Photoshop on the 2nd monitor, Photoshop only uses the main display's color profile (Vostro 1700) and not the ASUS VK246H profile. What could be going wrong?
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Chris Cox wrote:
What if the image is in between two monitors?
The piece on each display is corrected for the display it is on.
Is it supposed to work that way? Because it doesn't. Not with Photoshop CS5 x64 at least.
As a test I intentionally misconfigured the profile for my Monitor #1 (left) so that it's REALLY OBVIOUS which profile is being used. When set this way, on Monitor #1 red colors will appear pale orange.
An open document, floating in a window:
If COMPLETELY displayed on Monitor #1, Photoshop will use the Monitor #1 profile.
If even 1 pixel of the edge of the image is moved onto Monitor #2, it will use the Monitor #2 profile on the entire image.
See for yourself:
-Noel

Dual Monitor Support No Longer Works

Hi,
I am using Lightroom 2.0 on a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.4
Dual monitor support use to work with my Samsung external monitor. But now whenever I try to turn on dual monitor function, lightroom crashes. I know the external monitor and connection is working properly because I am able to use all of my other programs with both monitors, but no longer lightroom's dual monitor function.
Any insight would be much appreciated.
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Bridge CS3 & ACR with dual monitors

Question: In a dual-monitor Windows XP setup, how do I control which monitor ACR opens on when opened from Bridge?
Background: In my workflow, I use Bridge to open small batches of DNGs in ACR. What I want is to have Bridge on monitor #2 (uncalibrated), but have ACR open on monitor #1 (calibrated). At first I had Bridge opening on #1 and couldn't get ACR to open on #2. Then I figured out how to move ACR to #2, but now it always opens on #2, regardless of where Bridge is. How to fix?
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Okay, I think I've figured out how this works, although (1) the way it appears to function is exactly opposite to how I think it should function, and (2) I still can't figure out how to fix it.
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I have a dual monitor setup. When I paste develop settings from one image to another, Lightroom switches the active window.

Strange problem. Lightroom 5.5. Windows 8.1. Dual monitor setup.
I'm processing a large batch of photos. I have Monitor #1 set as my main develop window, with Monitor #2 set only to display a larger version of the image I'm working with. If I copy the develop settings off of one image and try to paste them onto another image, Lightroom will switch from Monitor #1 to Monitor #2 as the main develop window, and will not display anything on Monitor #1.
If I then try to paste develop settings onto another image on Monitor #2, LR will then display a larger version of the image I'm working with on Monitor #1.
To work the way I want to, I have to continually drag my develop window back to Monitor #1 every time I try to paste develop settings onto a new image. How can I make this stop?

I just tried what I think you’re saying you’re doing and I don’t have the problem with LR 5.5 on Windows 7 SP 2.
Does the same thing happen whether you use the key shortcuts vs the Settings / Copy/Paste options on the menu?
I ask this because if you’re using the keyboard shortcuts, maybe you have some display-manager program that has bound itself to the Ctrl-Shift-V (paste settings) to the function of move-to-other-monitor which would do at least part of what you describe.
You can also test this theory by doing a Ctrl-Shift-V with an application other than LR as the active window and see if it moves. I suppose Ctrl-Shift-C might also play into it so try both of these hot-key combinations with a program that isn’t LR.
If none of this sheds any light on the situation, then give a more detailed description of the low-level functions you’re doing to accomplish the copy-paste of settings, so someone else could replicate the steps exactly.
Specific detailed steps, like:
left-click on source photo’s thumbnail in the filmstrip
press Ctrl-Shift-C to copy the settings
click Check-None
enable the white-balance and calibration checkboxes
click Ok
left-click on destination photo's thumbnail in the filmstrip
click on Settings / Paste Settings in LR’s menus to paste the settings to the selected photo

New Dual Monitor Setup; iMac 21.5

I finally have my new dual monitor set up for my iMac after asking a while back.
I ended up getting a Lenovo monitor because thats the best deal they had. It matches pretty good, seems a little cheap but it works and works well for what I am going to be using it for.
The colors are a little off and yellowish but I am going to wait to give any kind of a review until its used for a month or so. That will give it some time to "break in".
Enjoy

Hi BNun
It is real easy to select different Profiles and/or create new Color Profiles for your Displays.
Just go to: Apple > System Preferences > Displays > select the Color tab on the display preference panel for Lenovo display and uncheck the box " ☐ Show profiles for this display only" then
1. Select a different profile such as (Adobe RGB, Generic RGB, iMac, etc.)
2. Calibrate and save a custom Profile to the list. > http://www.computer-darkroom.com/colorsync-display/colorsync_1.htm
3. Sweet use any profile in the list, if you don't like it then switch back or create another.
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Dennis

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I have the displays set up in the "extended desktop" mode. But when I open an image in ACR, I cannot drag the ACR window to my external display. Can you please help me here?
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Well, you're using dual monitors the way I've always heard it was to be done.
First unless the monitors are identical, it does seem like quite a logistics issue to have both screens color balanced and calibrated. So, obviously keep the image on the one that "prints best".
For the sake of disucssion, if both displays were very close to identical, I suppose you could use the "clone display" mode as a constant before and after.
My own slightly eccentric self would like to have one monitor vertical, and the other horizontal. This would present both horizontal and vertical images full frame simultaneously. As it stands now, I can get this, but I need two computers to do it.
I seem to be in a minority, as none of the current graphics drivers permit this, without one of the images being sideways that is. Is this too eccentric?

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They are pretty close right out of the box, but to improve things I have been considering the Monaco XR or XR Pro, ColorEyes & Eye One Display 2.
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I used the Monaco for several months before buying the Eye-One Photo. It worked well for the monitor calibration, although I didn't find that it was as especially good at matching my laptop screen to my Apple Cinema Display. The real problem for me was the method Monaco uses for calibrating the printer. I was not reliably able to print what I saw on my screen. Therefore, I bit the bullet and got the spectrophotometer (Eye-One Photo), which has done a very good job with both monitors and printer. While the Eye-One Photo measures the printer output (the print) directly, the Monaco relies on a scanner to tell it what the print looks like. This "indirect" measurement (necessary because it is not a spectrophotometer) led to inconsistent and inaccurate printer profiles.
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