 Amy Oakes |
Calibration and a Laptop Anyone have good suggestions for calibration for a laptop monitor? I have a Spyder 2 and have used it for a long time with my CRT, but I now have a laptop that I like to use while traveling.
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Richard Lynch |
Amy, Hardware is your best option for calibration, and the Spyder is convenient and easy. You may not want to travel a lot with a Spyder, and generally I do not recommend doing serious image correction on ANY laptop, and here's why: 1. Lighting conditions fluctuate wildly when you move a screen from place to place and that can affect your correction results. 2. Viewing angles on laptops tend to be less forgiving than on desktop systems (though that varies broadly from one monitor to the next). 3. Carrying a calibration device is clumsy. I haven't checked recently, but it used to be that you needed the device plugged in to the computer for the calibration to be recognized. All that said, you would probably want to consider something inexpensive and effective: the ColorVision Spyder Express. If you drop, damage or lose it, it won't be a terrible tragedy (or as bad as losing a more substantial package device), and you are already familiar with how it works. I hope that helps!
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Amy Oakes |
Thank you. That does help.
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Loraine Ehresman |
I don't think you have to have the device plugged in after you have calibrated but you need to recallibrate if you are using your laptop in different rooms as the light that you are working in will be different. A friend of mine says he recallibrates every week! and he is working in his studio (light is always the same). Richard is also right about the viewing angles on laptops, you never know if you are looking at the correct angle. I always plug a desktop monitor into my laptop for any photo editing.
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Giordano |
Whatever you do...don't go with Pantone Huey. ...just my opinion...
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Koen Van den Beld |
The first answer is a bit confusing. If you have a spider 2 you can use that to calibrate the laptop screen. You only do this once and recalibrate when you feel this is necessary. The Spider doesn't need to be connected when you are working on your laptop so you don't have to take it when you travel. Recalibrate before you leave and you will be fine for weeks. I do agree that a laptop screen is really bad for photo editing. Just move you head left to right when you are looking at the screen and see what happens. Also the angle of the screen makes a huge difference in brightness.
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Amy Oakes |
Actually when choosing the laptop that is exactly what I did. Looking for the one that showed the least amount of change when I moved my head up/down/left/right etc. It still isn't as good as my CRT but it's not as bad as some. I think I'll do minimal editing on the laptop but keep it for travel purposes. I can still "play" with images but not for printing.
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