Not sure where else to put this - Please help telling me if I am the horribly off one

[Lore]

Ok, I did my first photo edit on my new computer. & I stuck it on the web and pulled it up on my husbands computer on his dell monitor & it looked HORRIBLY over saturated and terrible :( on my new screen IMO the photo is great, I had thoughts of making this shot a poster, so I gotta get this right, first I need to make sure my my screen is as calibrated as I can get... I know there is software or whatnot you can get... I just dropped abit of cash on my new toy
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4181351&CatId=2289 the 1080p screen is brilliant, watched an episode of House on it last night :cool: ... but really, its not going to make me happy if I'm going to oversaturating my photos and not knowing it. Heck... I dont even remember 'saturating' my photo :confused:... anyway ...

I did research till 1 am on calibrating and 'gamma' and whatnot... I was in my nvidia settings... I opted to not change a thing after staring at the screen for sometime and tons of information flooded my head...

Long story short ( too late )

This is my first photo edit on my new computer... Looks awesome to me... on my husbands computer over saturated... how does it look to you?

What other simple resources can I use to calibrate?

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b178/silentlore/hockey_08_09/IMG_6721_wm.jpg

[Tony-S]

Looks fine on my calibrated display with Safari - mostly red jersey with a touch of orange?. What browser is your husband using? If it's not color managed, then that could present a problem. Edit - if he's not using a browser, is his display calibrated?

[Jim G]

If you want to properly calibrate your monitor the only option is really to pony up the money for a Spyder3 Pro or similar - I use that to calibrate my monitors and it's excellent. There are a few other brands which are also good, some quick searching will show up a fair few options.

[Lore]

Looks fine on my calibrated display with Safari - mostly red jersey with a touch of orange?. What browser is your husband using? If it's not color managed, then that could present a problem. Edit - if he's not using a browser, is his display calibrated?

Yes that is exactly how I am seeing it... he is using IE as am I, I have not DL'd firefox yet, which is what I generally use. & no he is not calibrated, I just figured his would be 'more right' because his is a monitor, not a laptop screen, although I was hoping with the research and and thought I had put into my purchase in chosing this laptop for its screen & features that it was the one that was more on target than his.

[Lore]

If you want to properly calibrate your monitor the only option is really to pony up the money for a Spyder3 Pro or similar - I use that to calibrate my monitors and it's excellent. There are a few other brands which are also good, some quick searching will show up a fair few options.

I'm just starting out, building glass / portfolio, etc... as I get more into things before I get anyone that gives me any amount of money I definately plan to get Spyder3 or something similar, but for now hobbyist shots & such, I just wanted to make sure that I wasnt grossly 'off'

[Tony-S]

Yes that is exactly how I am seeing it... he is using IE as am I, I have not DL'd firefox yet, which is what I generally use. & no he is not calibrated, I just figured his would be 'more right' because his is a monitor, not a laptop screen, although I was hoping with the research and and thought I had put into my purchase in chosing this laptop for its screen & features that it was the one that was more on target than his.

He probably has a TN panel in his display, just like your laptop. The true test, of course, is to make a print (with a paper and printer that are profiled for each other) to be sure you're getting what you see. Usually, prints will look dark for a display that is not properly calibrated, but there can also be color shifts.

But as Jim said, you should get yourself a hardware calibrator. I have the Spyder2Express and it's be great.

[René Damkot]

Another possible explanation is that your husbands screen is a wide gamut screen. In that case an sRGB image would appear *very* over saturated in a non color managed application.