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Apr 18.2006

Hi

I’m having a confusing time with this matter. It concerns the colors that I see in my monitor and what others see in theirs. By the way, my natural color vision is good just so you know.

Here is the link to my homepeage: [URL=http://members.ispwest.com/danielv/bordercolortest.html]http://members.ispwest.com/danielv/bordercolortest.html[/URL]

I describe it there along with the elements that are the problem and you can see for yourself immediately what the situation is.

Any suggestions will be assuredly appreciated.

To moderators: I have placed this in ‘General’, if it goes somewhere else then please move.

Thank You

Daniel

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@PoxicatorApr 19.2006 — you've hit upon a minefield tbh. Colour is an issue that can be argued for years to come to no avail. I work in print, actually its Photoshop nearly all day, producing images for roadside posters (over 1 gig in size), press advertising, trade journals, corporate accounts and brochures. I have a background of screen printing, litho printing and for the last couple of years a bit of web work. I've had professional ppl come to calibrate my monitor, used calibration tools, regularly update my profiles and regularly check against the end product. The problems in colour still exists.

Without boring you I'll hint on some issues:

1. Most ppl don't calibrate their monitors and many that do don't calibrate it to any professional output. If you want your monitor to show a close resemblance of the finished article you need to calibrate it in ideal light, viewing images on screen compared to the printed item. The same is true of RGB images on screen.

2. Have a look at any computer mag that compares monitors, you'll see they each have a different hue, perhaps shifting to blue, perhaps to red or perhaps to green. These hues will affect any image seen on them and theres nothing you can do to make sure whats seen on one will be the same as the other.

3. The PC is restricted to sRGB display at best whereas the Mac offers much better RGB gamuts offering a wider range of colours including Adobe RGB, colourmatch RGB and wide gamut RGB.

4. As you've mentioned the brightness and contrast of each monitor can be changed which obviously produces different results. As many PCs are used for gaming the colour settings are often set to display better, brighter sharper images ingame, that doesnt necessarily mean its better for web/print work.

5. The life of a CRT display may be long but during its life the colour will slowly fade, just like a light bulb. Hence when you replace either the monitor (or light bulb) you're immediately surprised with how bright it is.

6. LCD displays are extremely bright compared to CRT so you'll find it extremely hard to match images on either and the same problems exists for laptops.

As i say, I don't want to bore you but I hope I've indicated some of the issues based around RGB and monitors. The most important thing to remember is to try to achieve colour consistency on your own monitor, perhaps get some output prints (in CMYK) to compare that too. You'll at least have the higher ground on your friends ?
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