Samsung monitor software

Help has anyone used Samsung monitor calibration software, Magic tune, Magic bright and Natural color, or should I stay with Adobe gamma, for my new Samsung Model T200 20" Black rose monitor?

No idea on the Samsung monitor calibration software.
Adobe Gamma is supposed to work well for CRTs, less so for LCDs.

The best option would be a calibrator...

Hi Ren'e thanks for your reply. unfortunately being on a fixed income {retired} I can not afford a calibrator at this time.

safetyman wrote in post #5851955
Help has anyone used Samsung monitor calibration software, Magic tune, Magic bright and Natural color, or should I stay with Adobe gamma, for my new Samsung Model T200 20" Black rose monitor?

Yes I have, on a samsung 215TW (8-bit panel). It was absolutely horrible. Completely screwed up the calibration. Caused nothing but problems.

I agree with McCloud... I experimented with these on my office Samsung 225BW and immediately reset it.

I have a 245T - leave the crappy Samsung software alone. Save the pennies and get a Pantone Huey Pro (should be under US $150 or so).

Dave

Huey pro isn't worth it in my opinion. Just get the original Huey as a starting point and you can upgrade to pro on their website if you want more.

Yeah, good point blinded.

Dave

Same here, I've got the Samsung Synmaster 910n with Magic Tune and Magic Bright stickers attached, and have been told to avoid any of the auto this, that and other settings like the plague.

Unfortunately, the "auto" button is right next to the on/off button, so I am forever brushing the auto and undoing all my careful brightness and contrast settings made while calibrating. I keep threatening to super glue it!

Richard

Lowner wrote in post #5858026
I keep threatening to super glue it!

Gaffers tape?

Rene,

"Gaffer tape"?

I believe you've suggested that to me before. I've actually avoided doing it since we discussed it last, but it's days are definitely numbered!

Richard

I swopped sreens to the Samsung as as most people ran all their software and knobbed everything up ,all the colors were wrong so my son has a little widget you hang on the screen and ran that program all is well now

safetyman wrote in post #5851955
Help has anyone used Samsung monitor calibration software, Magic tune, Magic bright and Natural color, or should I stay with Adobe gamma, for my new Samsung Model T200 20" Black rose monitor?

I have the Samsung SyncMaster 2253BW and initially had both Magic Tune and Natural Color installed. Got screwed up, uninstalled Natural Color but re-installed Magic Tune. Followed the calibration and when I started Photoshop CS3 got an error on the profiles. I went into the profiles settings in Vistas , Color Management and changed the default profile from Samsung's Natural Color to "Adobe RGB". That fixed the CS3 error and haven't had any problems since.

Like you, I did not want to spend any more money on a calibration software or gear. I am assumming that since I have to error or warning from CS3, I am ok.

malam wrote in post #5858888
changed the default profile from Samsung's Natural Color to "Adobe RGB". That fixed the CS3 error and haven't had any problems since.

Like you, I did not want to spend any more money on a calibration software or gear. I am assumming that since I have to error or warning from CS3, I am ok.

No, you are not.

Never use AdobeRGB as your monitor profile.
It's a working space, not a device profile.
It's also probably way bigger then your monitors profile should be, giving you over saturated colors on screen. (And totally inaccurate).

Have a read in the link from my sig, on how to set up color management, and calibrate your screen.

For reference: A screenshot of my display settings; left is correct, right is wrong. Notice the difference in the blue and red tones? Imagine what a photo would look like.
Also: You would see the right (as in: Not left, but wrong ) version, the rest of the world will see the left.

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Thanks Rene for your post. I have two questions please - Where can the Adobe Gamma be found ? I checked the Adobe sight, but could not find it. Secondly - What impact does the ATI Calatyst Module have on colour calibration ? Any confilcts ?

Thanks.