Dual monitors-WOW!

[Az2Africa]

I have been reading posts here about all the ways and problems of setting up dual monitors and I was having nightmares about what it would entail. Yesterday i bought a e-GeForce FX video card, took a deep breath and jumped in. It took 5 min. to install. I started the computer,put in the software CD, went through the wizard and BINGO dual monitors. All that worry for nothing! It is so nice to have the extended desktop and to be able to put all the PS Cs tool palettes on the other monitor where they are not cluttering the phot area. Plus being able to use a maximized photo to work with. I'm hooked on dual!!

[cmM]

ok now try assigning different monitor profiles to both your monitors :D (that's when the nightmare begins, if you're using Windows, of course)

[Belmondo]

I have two computers sharing the dual monitor setup. Fortunately, both the video cards have dual outputs and both the monitors have dual inputs.

[kb244]

I got a CRT on the left for the photoediting , and LCD on the right for normal viewing, and its not hard to assign different profiles to different monitors, what hard is trying to color calibrate the both of them identical especially if left is CRT and right is LCD. In any case I just got my CRT calibrated for 6500K Color temperature and everything which is the imaging industry standard. My right LCD is calibrated mainly for brightness and contrast and such. My video card is an older ATI 9500Pro , which has a DVI and VGA output, and both already show up as 1 and 2 on my display settings.

[Todd Jacobsen]

Of course, color profiling is somewhat easier with two monitors of identical make/model. Although this doesn't guarantee identical profiles, you generally tend to be in the same ball park.

[Az2Africa]

I only had time last night to set the calibration on the main monitor where I wat the photo-in edit. Does the calibration on the one with the tools affect the image?

[crc_408]

Looking at the dual monitor setup. What's the "best" calibration tool for dual monitors? Adobe gamma, devices like Spyder, others?

[Curtis N]

I must admit this very concept makes my head spin.

How do you move from one monitor to the other? Does your mouse move seamlessly from one screen to the next? Do you drag stuff over or are there keyboard shortcuts? What happens when you "full screen" a window? can you get a window partly on one monitor and partly on the other? How much does that e-GeForce FX video card cost?

Sorry - I don't need the full tutorial, just a few clues as to what it's like to work with two separate screens. I might like to try it just to impress people!

[Az2Africa]

The GeForce card lets you hook up both monitors. You can then set it for extended desktop in which your mouse moves the cursor seamlessly from one screen to the other.You just click and drag anything from one screen to the other as though it was just one long desktop. Windows XP is already capable of handling multiply monitorrs. Just look in the Device Manager. The card software also allos a lot of other settings such as mirrored images and so on.:lol:The card was $99.00 at Circuit City after $20.00 rebate. Plus the card has it's own 128mb memory, so it does not use up RAM that is usually used by an integrated card.

[Curtis N]

You can then set it for extended desktop in which your mouse moves the cursor seamlessly from one screen to the other.You just click and drag
So you need a bigger mouse pad, right?

Just kidding. Maybe I'll try it someday.

[sixshot]

I'll need a bigger desk!