nat869 Senior Member  935 posts Likes: 4 Joined Jun 2004 Location: South San Francisco Bay Area More info | May 28, 2007 20:49 | #1 I had been using Adobe Gamma to calibrate my monitor and when I get prints from Mpix, they matched!!! I was pretty happy, but I figured maybe there was improvement to be had, so I got a Colorvision Spyder and now my pictures look too bright, especially blacks and skin tones. Canon 5D with grip
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gparvan Senior Member  788 posts Likes: 1 Joined Oct 2006 Location: Seattle, WA More info | May 28, 2007 21:01 | #2 Did you disable the Adobe Gamma when you used the calibration tool?
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nat869 THREAD STARTER Senior Member 935 posts Likes: 4 Joined Jun 2004 Location: South San Francisco Bay Area More info | I had deleted the adobe gamma from my startup menu and I have also made sure that the color profile I made was loaded into my monitor settings. Canon 5D with grip
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davidcrebelxt Goldmember  3,016 posts Joined Dec 2006 Location: Missouri, USA More info | May 29, 2007 12:27 | #4 First step before giving up, would be trying again... maybe several times... if using LCD, make sure what controls your monitor truly has, and adjust those accoring to instructions... don't forget to let monitor warm up also. David C.
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CubixRube Senior Member  548 posts Likes: 4 Joined Jun 2005 Location: Livermore, Ca. More info | May 29, 2007 15:28 | #5 Also, try downloading the printer profiles for Mpix printers (available by request from Mpix), and then make sure that you're "soft proofing" your images to that profile before printing. That may help... Upside the head...A place where nothing good ever happens.
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In2Photos Cream of the Crop  19,813 posts Likes: 6 Joined Dec 2005 Location: Near Charlotte, NC. More info | According to the Adobe forums Adobe Gamma isn't even offered anymore. They said that is because it sucks. I will let you read into that what you want. Mike, The Keeper of the Archive
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Pinto Always in our hearts and minds. R.I.P.  More info | May 29, 2007 15:54 | #7 Cubix Rube wrote in post #3287254  Also, try downloading the printer profiles for Mpix printers (available by request from Mpix), and then make sure that you're "soft proofing" your images to that profile before printing. That may help... Cubix Rube has a very important point regarding the printer profile for the vendor. Also when you change the color space for your image to the vendors profile, insure that you use "convert" and not "assign "or you can get some very unpleasant results.
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nat869 THREAD STARTER Senior Member 935 posts Likes: 4 Joined Jun 2004 Location: South San Francisco Bay Area More info | I have a Viewsonic G225f CRT monitor. Everything looks too bright on it, not just my pics, so I know something is up. Canon 5D with grip
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gparvan Senior Member 788 posts Likes: 1 Joined Oct 2006 Location: Seattle, WA More info | May 29, 2007 21:18 | #9 How old is the monitor?
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My monitor looks loads better with my Spyder2Express than with Adobe Gamma.