Screen Calibration Problems

[mattyb240]

Hi all,

I recently borrowed my friends Spyder 2 express to calibrate my 2008 (matte) MacbookPro.

I did this in the dark with no other ambient light, yet the finished profile looks like it has a red tint to it? This is clearly visible on the reflection off the palm rest.

Any reasons why it would be like this? or what would cause it?

Thanks Matt

[Bearmann]

Make sure adobe gamma is not being loaded and competing with your spyder profile. Make sure the Spyder profile is the default one.

[mattyb240]

Well no matter what profile I start the calibration with it still seems to go red? Or is there something I am missing about setting a default?

Thanks

[tim]

Very difficult to diagnose without being there. It's a pretty simple process. Make sure the profile is set up properly in windows. If it doesn't help take a photo with a white piece of paper held beside the machine, lit by flash bounced from the ceiling, camera in manual exposed for the screen. Link to a high res sRgb image.

[mattyb240]

Afraid it is mac I am using,and typically I just had to do an archive install and it has got rid of the custom profile, I will have a look through time machine to see if I can find it gain.

Thanks,

P.S Tim, your wedding photography is stunning!

[ChasP505]

mattyb... when you set up the software at the first calibration, did you tell it you have only a backlight control and no other? Calibrate to Native/2.2 gamma? Reset the display to all factory defaults before calibrating? make sure you downloaded the latest version of the Spyder2 Express software from Datacolor (http://support.datacolor.com/index.php?languageid=1&group=colorvision&_m=downloads&_a=view)?

Just some commonly overlooked items when using a Spyder2 Express on a laptop.