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How to Calibrate my Monitor?

I have a Dell D630 laptop. I just purchased a 23" external Samsung LCD monitor (which is awesome). I immediately realized that my Dell laptop monitor colors are extremely wasted out compared to my external Samsung monitor, once I plugged it in. How do I calibrate just my laptop monitor without effect the colors on my externally connected Samsumg monitor. I'm running WinXP-SP3.

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I guess the answer to that will vary depending on the graphics card of the laptop. Usually the manufacturers...

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How to calibrate monitor without installing software?

Monitor Lizards Wizards: Is is possible to calibrate a monitor without installing software? I do a lot of photo editing, and calibrating the monitors I'm using seems like a good idea. The Spyderco calibrators seem well-reviewed, and not too expensive...

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You could plug a different laptop into the monitor, calibrate it and then transfer the resultant ICC...

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How to calibrate monitor?

I just start to learn about photography and I'd like to know how to calibrate my monitor in order to have the same result, color, and tones printed as I see on the screen. Or at least not too much differences between my monitor and print output.

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Colour calibration is an essential element of getting your monitor to display accurate colours. Many...

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How do you calibrate your monitor?

For weeks I have been fighting with color management and I have realized that I need to caliberate my monitor so that what I see is what prints. My printer is working fine. I have burned a cd with picture that have been edited and they look the same...

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http://www.photofriday.com/calibrate.php Something that I ran across in an article once. Supposedly...

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How can i do calibrate my monitor so colors look better?

my screen has this awfully ugly light-blue tinge to everything, and i use Vista. It kind of hurts to look at it, what is a program that can calibrate it? I'm not very good with computers though.

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I'm not a professional with screens, but this sounds like your screen is actually damaged. A similar...

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How do i calibrate my pc monitor so image is the same as my camera and for printing?

I have recently bought a digital SLR camera (nikon D3100). I have taken some pictures and have been messing about with them with view NX2 and photoshop elements. but then the thought cam to me that i may be wasting my time fiddling with the white balance...

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well in the monitor you can do a color calibration ie mess with red green blue and contrast until it...

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How to calibrate my new monitor?

I got a new monitor and I want to mess with the diff settings for ex: "Native Gamma: 1.60 Target Gamma: 2.20 Chromaticities: Red Phosphor: x=0.646, y=0.343 Green Phosphor: x=0.321, y=0.612 Blue Phosphor: x=0.147, y=0.066 Native White Point: x=0...

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The only way to calibrate monitors accurately is with a hardware device. Otherwise, all you can do is...

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How do I get on a Digital Flat Panel Monitor the real color to be printed in a photograph? I want to calibrate

I am editing photos using adobe Photoshop, but whenever I go to the Photo store and send them to print in good photo paper the come out dark usually. Is it true that you should not use flat panel monitors to work on photographs and that you should use...

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You can use a CRT or an LCD, but you should have it calibrated to match lighting in the room and the...

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How do i calibrate my computer monitor?

I have a Hp W2207 Monitor and i have never calibrated before my pictures aren't coming out the same as the images that i view on my screen.

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You can google monitor calibration but that may not make your print pictures the same. Here are some...

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Is it necessary to calibrate your laptop monitor?

I'm seriously contemplating on buying SpyderProElite because I've heard that's all the rage when it comes to colour calibration. However, most of the time they calibrate a proper monitor (and what I mean by 'proper' is a separate monitor to your CPU...

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If you like what you are seeing, why would you go through all that trouble? Why fix it, if it ain't...

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