Monitor color calibration

[rgravel]

I just had an idea, so shoot me if its a bad one, or if itys been dealt before :/

What if I was to get myself a grey card, take a picture of it to display on my monitor, and fine tune the monitor by holding the card against the picture ?

Robert

[PacAce]

<bang> you're dead! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

And who's to say that the picture of the gray card is going to be truly gray when it comes out of the camera? ???

[steven]

Plus monitor calibration involves the colors as well as gray.

[cmM]

Plus monitor calibration involves the colors as well as gray.
Yup, that's what I was thinking.

You could maybe adjust your brightness like that, but that's about it.

[rgravel]

<bang> you're dead! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

ahh ahh, hhhhhhhhhh (I'm dead now)

Ok, I'll shut up now :/

Thanks :)

[PacAce]

Plus monitor calibration involves the colors as well as gray.
To get a good gray (as if there's such a thing as a bad gray :mrgreen: ), you have to have the other colors calibrated in the first place. Gray is an equal mix of RED, GREEN and BLUE. ;)