Re: Monitor Profiling

["Richard N. Moyer" <dickmoyer@mail.earthlink.net>]

<x-flowed>You may have to darken your work area; reduce ambient light. Not sure 
why this would happen if your monitor's luminance uncalibrated and 
unprofiled was high, or bright. But it looks like your calibration 
profile is knocking down (throttling - CLUTs) the output from at 
least two of the guns, if not three in order to balance. This used to 
be a problem with older monitors, even when new, which did not use 
hardware control within the monitor to balance, such as the 
Spectraview, etc. If you can determine the luminance one color (max 
output) at a time by turning two guns off, you might be able to see 
if all are functioning evenly and normally. Sure others will add -  -

Your monitor profile will not affect PS's working space.
>Hi,
>
>I've got a question about monitor profiling.  I'm using a G4 Mac and Iiyama
>Visionmaster Pro 21" monitor.  My profiling software/hardware is
>Photocal/mc7 device.  I have no difficulty creating profiles, and the prints
>seem quite close.  During profiling, the monitor luminance reads about
>67...not great in terms of critical color work.  This monitor is only about
>3 years old, so I would not think that the phoshphors were aging.  When I'm
>done with my profile, and using it, the monitor brightness is so low that
>sometimes I have trouble reading items on the screen, or seeing the images
>I'm working on in any detail.  It seems VERY dim.  The cursor, on the other
>hand, has been illuminated in light blue (presumably to assist in dim
>settings).  Is such a dim image common on a calibrated monitor (this is my
>first foray into monitor calibration).  I'm not sure I can work on this dim
>an image.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>By the way, I'm profiling at color temperature of 5000K, and using Photoshop
>for my imaging.  Are there any settings in photoshop that I need to change
>when using this type of custom profile?
>
>Thanks again!
>
>Mark
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