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Color is WAY off.

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draxsath   10-20-2004 at 11:41:51 PM

hmmmm more problems with the same 21" refurbed monitor.

my monitor's picture is very very green.

i've tweaked settings and more settings and more settings and though i can get it to look "ok" i cant get it to where i feel it's right.

besides those monitor calibration tools i've been seeing (that cost like $200) is ther eany software out there or anything else that can help me calibrate this monitor? i'm sure it can be done with the controls that it has and that my video card has.. i just have to figure out what to change and by how much.

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draxsath   10-21-2004 at 06:59:25 AM
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i found a service menu that i was able to use to more accurately adjust the color settings. i'm still having a hard time judging the picture with just my eyes.

would be nice if there was some kind of program that could help me get it just right....

anyone know of one?

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Crashman   10-21-2004 at 08:40:09 AM
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Go to Paint and make an image of Red, yellow, and blue bars. Then print that, and put it up to your screen with that same image opened. Compare what you printed to what you see.

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

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phsstpok   10-21-2004 at 07:24:41 PM
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The easiest thing to do is locate the color temp setting and reset it to 6500K. That should get your monitor close to where it should be for image viewing.

If you don't have a color temp setting then the page below may help but without calibration hardware it's impossible to get perfect acuracy.

This <A HREF="http://td.rutgers.edu/~thayes/crt/" target="_new">Simple Guide to Setup a CRT Monitor</A> might help. Unfortunately the instructions are very general.




<b>A mind is a terrible thing</b>

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