Your recomendation about monitor calibration software

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Hello everybody!

I am another happy user of Windows 7 but now my monitor colors are horrible, I have tried, with no success to correctly calibrate my monitor but I can't find the right software yet, any suggestions? your help is very welcome. :)

[Roger Clark]

Juan,
You need more than just software. You need a device that reads the colors off the screen. There are several to choose from. Not sure what would be available in your area, perhaps all of them.

Some references:
http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html

http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/...n_LCD_monitor/

Roger

[Greg Basco]

Juan Carlos, you might e-mail Monica (sorry to others; a photog friend of ours here in Costa Rica). She has the Spyder I think so she could give you feedback. In fact, she has brought it to calibrate my monitor and it has worked well.

Suerte,
Greg

[Doug Brown]

The Spyder works very well on my Mac.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Hello everybody!

Well, I was able to more or less calibrate my monitor finally today (thanks RN Clark for the links!) and thanks Greg for the suggestion about e-mailing Monica. I will have to do it one of these days. It sounds like Spyder is good hardware Doug!
I've been plying around with the software that RN Clark suggests (http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html) and I recommend it, just make sure to download the newest version, I think it is 3.0.0.1. What a difference it does! and it's free. I did read the whole document and I can say that I learned a lot about how to calibrate a monitor and interpret gamma, contrast and brightness. I you wish you can download the software directly here: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownloa...load-8894.html.
Good luck.