Some Questions and Requests
This post contains no pictures! This is atypical of this photo blog.
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- Recently I’ve looked at my photoblog from two of my friends’ computers both of which are HP laptops (one DV6000 and one DV4000, both about 2 years old now) running on Windows Vista Home Premium. I noticed that the colors of my pictures on those laptops were incredibly washed out, and it makes me wonder if everyone who’s running Vista out there sees my pictures like that. It doesn’t make sense to me because I changed my Mac’s display settings to match up with Windows settings so just the Macs should see the images as washed out (unless they have proper color management). So I checked on my mom’s laptop at home which is the same as one of my friends’ laptops but then on my mom’s the colors come out fine. So now I’m just really confused. It can’t be the browser because on my mom’s, the colors display properly on all browsers. Vista is supposed to manage colors on an OS level so why were the other two laptops that I checked incorrectly displaying the colors?
- That is all!
Ohh maybe that’s why your pics seemed rather dull these days… Hm.. Vista… >:/ Maybe you could check my pc when you get back to Cal? xD
I think it depends on people’s color settings on their monitor and their graphics card. The pictures on your blog shows up really nicely on my laptop (Dell XPS M1330). Now I’m worried because that means the drawings and the photos I take will show washed out on other people’s computer
I think another problem is some laptop’s default display setting is on COLORS “16 Bit,” but changing it to COLORS “32 Bit” makes a difference though I don’t think that’s the root of the problem.
I’m on a DV6000 (1.5 yrs old) and I do not know if the pictures are washed out or not LOL.
Color Calibration.
No two monitors (unless calibrated regularly) will give you exactly the same colors from the same image.
Since you have no control over how the world treats their computers, you should only worry about your own.
Check out http://www.colormunki.com/ or just google ‘color calibration software’ and you’ll get a heap of information about how to control the colors your monitor delivers.
Most monitors should be calibrated every six month or so as they do shift over time. This is especially true if you make a lot of prints. If the colors of your prints don’t match the color on the monitor, odds are, you need to calibrate (assuming you used the proper printing profiles, but that is a whole ‘nother bowl of wax). This is if you make your own prints…if you take them to some quicky print place then they usually attempt to correct your colors for you.
The older the computer/monitor, the more often it should be calibrated. Mine is four years old, and I calibrate every 3 months.
Hope this helps…