Can You Help With Manual Colour Calibration on old Laptop, Please

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Kevin67

Senior Member
Hey Guys,

I've got my first professional assignment next month and I'm busy preparing for it right now.

I have a Nikon D3300 with kit twin lens and an old Acer Aspire 5920 laptop for editing with. I'd like to colour calibrate this if I could but I don't have the kit or cash to do so. So I'm hoping a bit of educated guess manual tweaking will be better than nothing.

I will be using PS and LR.

Please have a look at the attached screen shot. This is as complicated as it gets.

Can anyone please advise me on how to tweak this, please?

Very Many Thanks
Kevin

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Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

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Kevin67 said:
... I'd like to colour calibrate this if I could but I don't have the kit or cash to do so. So I'm hoping a bit of educated guess manual tweaking will be better than nothing.
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Simply put, color calibration of your computer monitor is not something you simply take a wild stab at; you'll wind up doing more harm than good taking that approach. Save your pennies, get a Spyder4Pro and do the job right the first time.

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Moab Man

Senior Member
I completely agree with Fish, but let's say that is not an option. The only real way you're going to know what your image looks like is to get a professional shop print done. I would then adjust the onscreen image to look like the printed image. Once you're as close as you can get to matching the monitor, re-edit the image again to try and make that image look like it should. Have an image professionally printed and repeat until it is as close as possible.

The Fish still has the best solution.
 
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Kevin67

Senior Member
You both have the best solution, Thanks!

I don't have the pennies right now and the Spyder is the way to go.

However, I'm smacking myself a bit for not thinking of getting a print done and then comparing - what a brilliant temporary solution!

The spyder is priority on my list of must-haves.

Thanks again guys - you are amazing!
 
hark

hark

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On my Vista desktop, it had some type of calibration ability...which I tried. It was a process of selecting certain things. The final result was horrible, and the colors were way off. The biggest problem was trying to figure out how to disable the profile and return to the Spyder profile. It took some online searching before I figured out how to delete the new profile completely. Never again....:nightmare:
 
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