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For Windows 7 users (and perhaps Win 8 and Vista) try this: right click on the screen of your Win 7 PC and choose "screen resolution". In windows 7 however one can make various changes to match what they are shooting in their photos.
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After buying a new Samsung 27" monitor yesterday I proceeded to install the drivers and was looking for calibration software of which this monitor did not come with. One other point I wish to add is making sure your monitor shares the same profile.
Here's a copy and paste from the previous thread: I try and align everything to sRGB (or if you prefer Adobe RGB). There's already calibration software built in that may be sufficient for you. Lightroom does a very good job with it's dual monitor support. I use the second monitor in portrait mode in lightroom when previewing portrait shots - it works great. I have to be looking straight at the monitor to avoid distortion - looking at even a 30 degree angle isn't good.
(I suggest getting identical monitors if you can) Also, most consumer (low cost) monitors are designed for landscape viewing, and if you turn the monitor to portrait orientation, the angle of view is very narrow. The color gammut of my two monitors is not the same, so the colors don't exactly match. (Note the max resolution differs between an analog connection and a digital connection on the same monitor). In my case I have one monitor connected to VGA and the other to DVI - not optimal but I wanted to use the monitors I had and avoid buying a graphics card. Make sure your system board and/or graphics card(s) support the proper connections for your monitors (VGA, Displayport, DVI, etc.). I have two Dell monitors and the setup works great. I have 7D size raw files and a fairly large number of pictures (10,000+) and it does fine. I don't even have a dedicated graphics card. I have a SSD as the main drive and 16G of memory. I built a PC this summer with the latest desktop i7 processor and just used the on-chip GPU and my system is very snappy. Re: Graphics cards - everything I have read says that Photoshop and lightroom are CPU intensive, not GPU intensive. Here is a good blog post to read on this from Ron Martinsen He recommends the ColorMunki. If you want to manage your printer as well - then you need a spectrophotometer, which is more expensive. If you only want to color manage the monitor(s) the less expensive devices will work. You can spend a lot of time in this area as it gets much more complicated than it would seem on the surface if you really want to understand it deeply.Ī big consideration is what devices you want to color manage. I did a lot of research a couple of months ago on color management. I understand it is part of the NVIDA’s Quadro cards so I’m certainly open to that series.
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(For those not familiar with nView, this software provided all kinds of functionality and configuration for your graphics card such as hot keys to switch between monitors and to change orientations.) Evidentially this is not available for the GeForce series with Win7. One thing that torqued me when I went to Win 7 is I lost the ability to use the nView software which is part of the XP NVIDA driver. I also run a second display for general computer use so I need dual monitor support, but nothing special on the second port. So what is a good card and what should I be looking for? Bus, memory, speed, etc.?Ĭurrently I have a GeForce 430 with 1 gig of memory. I’m not a gamer and never will be one (God bless them however since they do push the hardware market). There is a lot of video card information out there for gamers but not so much for photo editing. I have done a fair amount of searching over time for what would be an optimal video card for photo editing and viewing. Just finished building a new PC (do this every few years).
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Looking for suggestions from those who have experience with these or any other tools.ġ.ĝatacolor Spyder4Pro S4P100 - $169 (can upgrade software to Elite version below if I need to for $99) I was leaning towards the X-Rite devices but I’m reading about too many software weaknesses. Trying to decide between X-Rite and Spyder tools. I do not want to skimp on these items and of course I don’t want to buy something I don’t need or is an overkill. The short question is I’m looking for some advice on monitor calibration tools and graphics cards. Hope this is not too much of a departure from photog topics
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