Re: Monitor Calibration and digital negatives

Thanks Tom, when I get home (on vacation at present) I will have a look at
this again.
cheers
Kate
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From: "Tom Ferguson" <tomf2468@pipeline.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 6:38 AM
Subject: Re: Monitor Calibration and digital negatives

> I noticed that no-one has answered your question. It had been too long
> since I did this on a PC, but was at a friend's yesterday and checked.
> The app is where you said (settings>control panel>adobe gamma). You set
> the "Contrast to maximum" and then adjust the "Brightness" in the first
> or second step (where you are asked to make the inner of 2 stacked
> black boxes just visible).
>
> So, you do not leave brightness at maximum, it should be adjusted very
> early in the process.
>
> You do leave contrast at maximum. This (I assume) is so the Gamma can
> have the full range to "play with" when you ask it to set/adjust the
> mid tones (the page that ask you to pick "Mac standard" or "PC
> standard").
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On Tuesday, February 22, 2005, at 03:01 AM, Kate Mahoney wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >>
> >> If you are on a pc "AND" have Photoshop or Illustrator installed, you
> >> also have a small Adobe app called "Gamma" installed on your system.
> >> It
> >> is very similar to the Mac calibrator. It has been too long since I
> >> set
> >> up a PC screen, I can't remember where to find this or the setting to
> >> use. But, It worked nicely on the PC.
> >
> > You should be able to find it in "settings>control panel>adobe gamma
> > Maybe I'm dumb, but I find the instructions a bit strange ......you
> > are told
> > to set the monitor to maximum brightness to do the calibration, but
> > nowhere
> > does it then tell you to readjust the brightness! Someone enlighten me
> > please?
> >
> > Kate
> >
> >
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