Calibration

[Claire]

Gonna try to calibrate my laptop screen. Does PS 6 have that function or do I have to use the CS that I got with my DRebel?

[G3]

Gonna try to calibrate my laptop screen. Does PS 6 have that function or do I have to use the CS that I got with my DRebel?

You got Photoshop CS with a Drebel? Or, did you get Elements?

I don't know if Elements has the calibration program or not, nor do i know if PS6 has it. I do know tha PS CS has it. It's not great, but it will work....sort of.

A much better solution is to buy a Spyder.

[scottbergerphoto]

Gonna try to calibrate my laptop screen. Does PS 6 have that function or do I have to use the CS that I got with my DRebel?
I think pretty much all PS versions including PSE2 have it. If it was installed with your version of PS it should be in the Windows Control Panel.
Scott

[Jesper]

You didn't get Photoshop CS with your Rebel, or you must've been very lucky somehow.... :) but probably you got Photoshop Elements 2.0 with it. Adobe Gamma, Adobe's software tool for calibrating and profiling your monitor, also comes with PS Elements. I guess your laptop is a PC (not a Mac) - look in Control Panel for Adobe Gamma.

Note, Adobe Gamma doesn't really work well to calibrate and profile your screen. If you really want to do it accurately, you need a device like a Spyder (http://www.colorvision.com). ColorVision now sells a relatively cheap package (ColorPlus), which includes a Spyder and software.

With Adobe Gamma, you're using your own eyes as the color measuring device and your eyes are very inaccurate at estimating colors - how you see colors depends on a lot of things, such as the ambient light, what you've been looking at the last few minutes, if you're tired or not, how much coffee you had (really!) etc....

[alsmith]

It would be helpful to know what kind of equiptment you are running including monitor, graphics card, and software. Are you on a Mac Platform or a PC Platform?