Monitor sRGB Option.

[SuperFly]

Hi All,

Well, i'm happy to tell you that based on comments and posts of various users on this forum, I have just purchased a Lacie Electron Blue IV 22" CRT monitor. The thing is BIG and playing DooM III at 1600x1200 is way cool... :cool:

Now i'm grappling with colour management and reading up on this subject, I was unable to get a calibration tool with the monitor (yet) and will be saving up for that now that the monitor is out of the way.

In the meantime, using various calibration pages on the internet, my screen looked a tad yellow and bland.

Last night i was going through the OSD and under the colour settings there was this sRGB option, which when i selected made the monitor look great !!

I have also read quite a bit about these different colour profiles (both here and on other websites) and it seems that most printers request sRGB based images, also most of you tend to suggest using sRGB when saving for web.

My Question (after all that....)

Is it a good idea to use this sRGB option on my new monitor? I have not printed anything yet, and i believe that when i finally do print something, then i will know for sure if the screen and paper match up.

Thanks for your input.

Khaled.

[scottbergerphoto]

The goal of monitor calibration isn't to make your monitor look great. Actually a properly calibrated monitor looks a little dull. The goal of calibration is to get your prints to match your monitor. If you have Elements or PS you already have a rudimentary calibration tool installed in the Windows Control Panel. It's called Adobe Gamma. Set your room lighting to the way it will be when you edit your photos and run it. Then name the resulting profile so you'll know what it is (Mymonitor020905) and save it as your default monitor profile.
Scott

[SuperFly]

Thanks Scott,

I did actually use the Adobe Gamma tool a few times... I'll leave it like this for now (sRGB Monitor setting) and compare any prints I do with the Monitor.