szerangue
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May 5, 2007, 2:30 PM
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Re: [Brackish] Greteg or Spyder?
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The way I understand it, and my understanding is somewhat limited so bear with me. There are 2 important adjustments to be made on a color monitor... gamma and temperature. These setting should be adjusted to the correct gamma and temp. The temp should be set at 6500k and the gamma can be corrected by downloading templates off the internet and comparing to a printed calibrated chart.
Once you have that set, then color correction is more a mathematical equation than a WYSIWYG. In other words, using color metering to correct your image rather your eye will give you more accurate color in your image and in your printer than using something like a a spyder. What the Spyder will do is say, ok your monitor says this is grey, but when I put my suction cup on the screen, I am seeing that the grey is not so grey so I am going to make adjustments to what you see on your screen so grey looks more like grey... OK... that is fine and now what you are SEEING is a more accurate grey... BUT the data on your image is not changed at all, it just looks better on the screen, so you make your adjustments according to what you see on the screen. So you may open up your image and say, wow that looks great, no image adjustment necessary, when in fact, the image may be off. Its like opening up your image and seeing a bluish hue and putting a magenta filter over the screen and saying, oh that looks better.. the image data did not change, but it looks better.
Rather, if you mathematically change the data on your image you are more likely to get a more accurate data adjustment, even though the color you see on the screen is off.
Having said that, let say you have your monitor calibrated with a spyder.. ok, no problem. As long as you still use a mathematical method to adjust the color rather than just what your eye sees on the screen, you will still get a correctly adjusted image. And the bonus here will be that the image will look better on your screen because the monitor has been calibrated.
So hence the argument, you don't really need a color calibrator like a Spyder.
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