Screen Calibration Problems

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

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

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

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.

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!

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?

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