I am not sure this is the right place to post this - but I am new here, and the other sections are closed for me.
I have purchased a Spyder2 color calibrator and use it with ColorEyes to calibrate my laptop screen (later also my LCD).
When I calibrate, something very strange happens, and after days I cannot find out what it is.
All the blues become very violet, to a point that I think is not normal.
In addition, this is only happening in colour managed applications: Firefox, Lightroom, Photoshop, and the Windows PhotoViewer (I am using Windows 7, PhotoViewer is colour managed there).
So basically what happens are two steps: 1) the monitor in general changes temperature, contrast, etc. and that looks quite good, at least not totally wrong; and 2) in colour-managed programs the blues become really really violet, and maybe the yellows a bit too yellow, but that might be minor.
I tried all kinds of things, calibrate to 6500K, monitor pre-calibrate and then calibrate to Native White, calibrate to gammas 2.2 and L, luminance to Maximum, to 100cd/m2, calibrate with lights off, at night, at day. I brought the sensor back to the shop, but it is not broken, they tried it their with their computers.
I switched off graphic driver tools that might interfere, removed things from the Startup folder, etc.
It is the first time I am doing this, so I am getting confused. :-(
What might be wrong?<
Thank you so much!
Simone
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Clearly, the display profile you're winding up with is garbage. There are various possible explanations, including the possibility that your calibrator is defective. Other possibilities include Windows 7 compatibility problems and misuse. Do you have access to alternate hardware to try?
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
No access to another calibrator, but I went to the shop and they tried it with their monitor (it was a Mac though). There it went fine. No strange blues.
I also see that when i use ColorEyes, the blue it shows while calibrating is BLUE and not purple. So i guess the calibrator is just measuring fine. Maybe it shows the blue different in ColorEyes and in other color-managed programs (PS, LR, Firefox, etc). But why?
Thank you for your help!
I am really out of ideas now :-(
Simone
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Yes, I think it could be a Windows problem....but I don't know which. I could try to use it with another version (Vista, XP,....). I heard of other people though that they successfully used Spyder 2 under Win 7.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Hopefully somebody from the Windows world will pipe up here, today. One final thought: did you check to make sure there isn't a more recent version of the Spyder software to download?
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
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