r u PC color calibrated ??

[vizwhiz]

hi There

 

Vizards and ya'all

 

we just went thru a color calibration here at work, what fun

what an eye opener That was to see all the different options

 

etc

 

have you done a color calibration on your monitor printer and/or scanner

 

etc Lately?

 

if not, why not, if you do Then how often??

 

i had been trying to eyeball match colors from physcial samples on screen

which it turned out That There is a red halogen light wreaking havoc in my

 

work space

 

i would look at a sample and it was slightly reddish

i held it up at the screen and slightly turned it away

 

and it looked more green

 

i Thought i was hallucinating, again (yes i am from the 60's)

 

finally tracing the shadow from my finger i figured out where the offending light

source was coming from, it is several feet overhead and in someone elses work space

 

so i am not allowed to change it

 

besides That there is at least 3 or fours windows, exit emergency lights

and a d*mn door that adds excessive glare onto the computer screen

 

every Time it opens, i block my rear view with a masonite sheet

what do you do to minimize glare or to color correct your work??

 

??

 

just idle curiousity

 

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so far i got about 34,000 hours hands-on a keyboard Time

i Think That my eyes or at least my brain is getting fuzzy

 

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Thanks

 

Randy

[cullen]

I've been trying to get the printers callibrated at my office forever. For somereason it hasn't worked at all. Do you happen to have any info on the monitor stuff. Never really thought about that.

 

thanks,

crw

[STRAT]

never ever calibrated. my X boss used to, but i eye things up with great accuracy.

[Matt Sugden]

I must confess that I never calibrate either. With having a long standing background in professional audio there always used to be a similar argument about studio monitors/speakers, and trying to acheive the most neutral sound. My person opinion is to learn your system, by that I mean understand how you monitors tint your work, and how your printer emphasises certain colours, then compensate for it with your work.

 

I don't believe you'll ever get 100% colour accuracy so why try and acheive it. Having said that I maybe looking at things through rose tinted glasses!!

[RyanSpaulding]

hi There

i Thought i was hallucinating, again (yes i am from the 60's)

 

HAHAHA

[Eric]

I don't have a calibrated system. What I do is get my colors as close as I can visually, then roll with it. If accuracy is very important, I'll take a Pantone swatch book and match my materials to the swatch book, and write down what Pantone color I need to use. Then I open up Autocad Arch Desktop and hatch a box with the Pantone colors, and set the color to the one in my swatch book. This gives me the RGB color values that I can plug into Photoshop or Max. If I'm in photoshop I'll create a layer at the top of my layer list and fill little swatches with the RGB value I obtained from Arch Desktop, and then apply adjustment layers to my photoshop image to tweak colors. I've not found an easier/faster way to get accurate colors. Even the architects in the office might look at my renderings and tell me the colors are off. When I pull out the material samples and hold them up to my rendering, they always say "...maybe we need to pick a different paint color then because you're rendering is correct."