monitor spyder......

keizza

anyone here ever use one of these things? i am trying to get my monitors to match as best as possible with the ones i have at work. they are even of the same company. but when i take something to work that i worked on at home....it's very dark. just wondering if anyone has used a spyder before....and if so, how were the results?

thanks.
cheers.

Snowfly

I have the Spyder3 Elite, and well, the results are exactly what you'd expect them to be - consistent color on multiple displays. Not perfectly consistent but close.

I used it to calibrate my home LCD, my 2 LCD's at work, and my co-artists, and I'd say our displays are within 90% of each other. Makes sharing PSD's a lot less stressful than before we calibrated, since we all see more or less the same colors and contrast.

Also if you keep the Spyder3 hooked up to your machine while you work, it measures ambient light and does subtle adjustments to your display settings so you perceive the same thing as the lighting conditions in the room change.

If you're not too worried about matching a studio full of screens or fine tuning to non-standard Kelvin settings, save yourself some money and get the Pro. It's the same hardware with stripped down software.

keizza

cool. thnks snowfly. also, i need something like this to get proper results for submitting art to a "call for entries" type book. so i am just trying to get the most from my monitors for something that might go to print.

thanks again. i may invest.

cheers!!!

Snowfly

oh calibrating for print is a whole other issue, but getting your images to a standard before sending them off is a step in the right direction good luck man