In a message dated 12/26/2005 12:49:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If your Spyder profile is creating a visible colour cast then something has gone seriously wrong somewhere in the process.
Rob Studdert ======== Well, that is what I felt, yes, that something was wrong. Like WR said, you can set all three color channels with Adobe Gamma and that is what I do. But somehow with the Spyder it is having me set the red channel higher than the others. Or it felt that way -- actually it seemed that way, when the bars were on screen. I tried it twice in the dark with this monitor. I bought the Pantone Spyder and PhotoCal on sale. I can't return it. They have newer ones now and maybe it wasn't as good. I really don't know, Rob. But to me it did end up having a red color cast, a slight one to be sure, but one. I debated whether my eyes were off. :-) Whether there should be more red channel than I feel that I normally see. But I don't think so. I have compared visually between the settings that Adobe Gamma gave me and between what the Spyder gave me, and they actually weren't that different, pretty close. I thought maybe there might be a big difference with contrast or something and there really wasn't. I do have a cheaper CRT. But I tried it on my last CRT too before it developed problems. This CRT already has problems (Godfrey was probably right about that). Maybe someday I'll try a Spyder on a LCD. But for now, I am happier using Adobe Gamma. Sorry, I ended up feeling the Spyder was vastly, vastly overrated. But then I have a very good internal color sense. I always have. Not quite as good as when I was younger, but still not bad. When I was a girl I used to be able to go out shopping and buy a sweater to match a skirt at home. I could remember the color. Good "color pitch" or something like that. So I am going with what I am comfortable with. And I think Adobe Gamma, if one sets all three color channels with it, is probably good enough for most people. Later, Marnie aka Doe
