monitor calibration

[jann1033]

i've been reading about monitor claibration..( http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html ) i have mine set to srgb which is supposed to equal K6500 and to me the colors look good, the whites are whites blacks are blacks( i have been looking at a photo set on a site specifically for that...)so if it looks good to me is that the end of it or could it be off still? my monitor has a bunch of presets so i just went to the srgb which turned out the be the right k temp anyway

 

[seashoreCM]

Calibration will differ depending on the amount of room lighting, too. This is true for photo-editing as well as for watching movies. If the calibration does not fit the room lighting, you will have difficulty seeing shadow detail or difficulty seeing highlight detail. You should include as part of calibration gray scale tests using a step test pattern. Color intensity tests usually require colored cellophanes to look through. Even if your monitor has specific settings for color temperature, you are taking the manufacturer's word that the color temperature is correct, unless you have a reference for this too, namely a lamp and colored cellophane that displays that exact shade of white.

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[jann1033]

http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html#Calibration i was using this photo set to set it by that includes the test strips. the srgb is just to tp set the color temp and they recommend using a halogen lamp pointed away from the monitor in an other wise darkened room. now however i just found the user mode ( or some such name) that you actually set the rgb with and was able to get a better purer white using that. i just want my mpix photos to match the photos i edit and i know is srgb. so i am hoping if i can get a good color set here, it should translate to being decent once they print them off

 

[Groucho]

You'll probably have a hard time adjusting the colors accurately by hand... if you're after that, I'd go for a Spyder2Express, it's relatively cheap (<$70) and will get things more accurately that doing it by eye - and really, there's not that much you can adjust on the monitor side, you need to do it on the PC side.