dual monitor color calibration

Oniram

hey everyone. ive had 2 separate monitors for quite some time, and ive noticed that one of them is a bit more blue than the other. (ex: polycount background on my main monitor is a dark grey, but on the secondary is a medium grey/blue).

both monitors are from HP, but different ones which i guess is why the colors appear different, im just wondering if there is any sort of program or something i can use to calibrate the colors between the monitors and match them up.

bludragon

have the same issue/calibration problem, would be interested if anyone has the answer to this!

passerby

a common way of calibrating monitors is to print a image off with a good quality photo printer and open the same image on the monitor and play with the hue, contrast and brightness until they match.

there are also devices that do pretty much the same in a more accurate manner

AlecMoody

get a colorimeter so you can dial your displays in properly. The best options terms of value and quality are probably the i1 display 2 and the lacie blue eye pro:

[ame]http://www.amazon.com/X-Rite-EODIS2-Eye-One-Display-2/dp/B000JLO31M[/ame]

[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Lacie-Blue-Eye-Pro-Support/dp/tech-data/B000Q8UD4O[/ame]

passerby

also if your at school you could just borrow a colorimeter since this isnt something you will need to redo often, and most schools dealing with anything media will have some of them.

FicWill

We use Huey Pro's - it's great, just set and forget.

Mark Dygert

This is why I always buy the same make and model and I always buy them at the same time.

jimmypopali

You can usually change basic colour variation on the monitor menu buttons in conjunction with THIS. Otherwise there should be more advanced controls in your monitor display software. Should be easily done.

Calabi

Mark Dygert wrote: »

This is why I always buy the same make and model and I always buy them at the same time.

Thats still no garauntee though. The only way really is to get one of those colour calibrater things, they are quite expensive though.

Or you just stick with the one monitor that you know is mostly right.

Snowfly

All the analog methods of are too manual to bother with, and not very accurate. The couple of hundred bucks for a calibrator's well worth it. I use this one myself-

http://spyder.datacolor.com/

alexnguyen

Consider CalPC: http://consumer.spectracal.com/products/calpc

It has a specific workflow for multiple monitors and has DDC control if your monitor supports it to do all adjustments within the program instead of manual menu clicking. Works beautifully to calibrate my laptop to my 2nd monitor.

sprunghunt

ever wonder what this is for?

Oniram

yeah. always thought that was just an error on my tv.

lol. no, ive used pictures spread across both monitors and tried to get it as close as possible to match, but some colors are still off.. mainly my blues. when i had used what is now my secondary monitor as my main (showing more blues than anything else), i had assumed it was correct. now with my new monitor it shows those blues as greys. so ill assume that is correct (thats the colors i get on my laptop and iphone). but yeah, ill see if my school has a colorimeter that i can borrow.

sprunghunt

Oniram wrote: »

yeah. always thought that was just an error on my tv.

lol. no, ive used pictures spread across both monitors and tried to get it as close as possible to match, but some colors are still off.. mainly my blues. when i had used what is now my secondary monitor as my main (showing more blues than anything else), i had assumed it was correct. now with my new monitor it shows those blues as greys. so ill assume that is correct (thats the colors i get on my laptop and iphone). but yeah, ill see if my school has a colorimeter that i can borrow.

The test pattern is a demonstration of the colour range and brightness of an image. You can use that to calibrate a monitor.

But the colorimeter would be the easiest way. However it depends on what your monitors allow to be adjusted. The more better your monitor the easier it is to adjust individual channels and achieve stable colour calibration.