color on windows xp

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:15 am

Flint the Dwarf wrote:That might help you judge how closely you can get to the norm.

Oh, wow. 0_0 I can only see 16 - the last one being a pure black rectangle.

I'll put that to use immediately and thank you! ^__^

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:23 am

Glad to help.

And, for reference, with my settings I can only see 18 but I'm able to adjust it so I can see all of them. I like my screen a little dark, since there are usually not many lights on around the computer.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:25 am

Just wanted to note that I also see a rectangle in the last two.

And I spent 3 hours last week trying to get my color correction right

Just wanted to note that, in my experience, monitors seem to be the bigger factor. There's a serious deficiency in contrast/gamma on my monitor which I compensate for by tweaking with the video card settings; and I know it's the same on a CRT monitor my father uses. Although I'm not sure what sort of adjustments can actually be done through your particular video card settings, as I never had one of these.

Have you tried going into 'advanced' settings for your adapter? Maybe there is some sort of adjustment there. I know nVidia cards all have a 'color correction' utility in there.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:34 am

I've had the same problem ever since I switched to a Dell LCD monitor. With one difference: video looks nice when it's played in the Vegas preview window. But the same file played through WMP (ref WinXP SP1) is dark and muddy.

Arigatomina wrote: I just wish there were a way to compare my settings to a 'normal' computer to see how I should adjust it. I can't even compare anime colors to my television, since the color displays are different depending on which tv I use. It's really frustrating. I just stopped adjusting brightness/darkness in anime footage, assuming it would look normal to others that way. ^_^;

Calibration "spyders" are now available for consumers. The ones that I've seen are made by Colorvision. The low-end model is around $100. The way it works is that you lay a spyder on the monitor surface and run a program that generates a custom ICM file. This presumably calibrates the monitor to some kind of industry standard.

I tried it on my Dell. There was some improvement, not as much as I'd like, but I can see 20 squares using Flint's graphic. (That's with the monitor controls set at neutral.)

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:25 am

TaranT wrote:Calibration "spyders" are now available for consumers. The ones that I've seen are made by Colorvision. The low-end model is around $100. The way it works is that you lay a spyder on the monitor surface and run a program that generates a custom ICM file. This presumably calibrates the monitor to some kind of industry standard.

Woah, that's really cool. But there's no way in hell I'd pay more than $20 for it, since I don't do any important work that requires color precision.