New Laptop......Green Color Cast??

Hi everyone, I just recieved a new laptop. I have transfered all my photos to it, and noticed right away the green is very intense on this new screen.

When I have the same exact photo opened on both computers, it is extremly obvious.

Everybodys skin has a green tint to it, and all trees & grass in my photos are a very intense green. This is non exsistant on old laptop.

Also if this helps, when I make a print of a photo, it does not present this green color cast, and pretty much matches what I see on my old computer. How can I edit on this new computer, do i just compensate in my mind that the strong green I see, wont be visible on other peoples computers & in my prints?

Does anyone have an idea how I can fix or adjust this, without purchasing calibration equiptment for my laptop?? Is there a way i can adjust my monitors grren hues??

I am running windows 7 64 bit, on a 17 HP Envy.

Thanks to everyone in advance, you help is much appreciated

Try clicking the little 'Windows' orb/Start button

Type Calibrate in the search box and there should be an option 'Calibrate Display Colour' run through the process and there is a option to alter RGB colours there.

You need to calibrate, one way or the other. Three options:

1. Check the video card settings for your computer. Some have an sRGB setting that is not the default. On one of my laptops with an nVidia card, that is quite close to what I get with calibration.

2. Try software calibration. google it. Koren is the name, I think. I could never get it to work.

3. Buy an eye-one display 2 and calibrate with that. That is what I finally did. I only wish I had done it before wasting hours and hours trying to make do without it.

Green is odd. Most laptops I have seen are way too blue.

Windows 7 has direct access to color management settings and device color profiles, so give this a try and see if you have any success.

Click the "start" button and they type "color management" and that should take you to the color management panel. If there is an installed ICC profile for your screen it should be listed there and you can enable it if it isn't already.

I think that panel also gives you access to some basic "calibration" settings (not sure and I am not on the right computer to tell at the moment).

Yeah, back on the desktop. Win7 > Start > type in "Color Management" and press enter.

After checking to see if the device ICC profile is selected, click the Advanced tab and you should see a Calibrate Monitor button. I guess this isn't "real" calibration because it doesn't use an external sensor, but might be better than nothing.

Hey Rimmer thanks for the info. I did not know windows 7 had this feature, as I am coming over from XP. I went through the color manager, and did see this list of ICC profiles. I am not too knowlegable on color management. Anyway it seems there is 6 different ICC profiles available, and I am not sure which one I should be using, they all appear to be sRGB, but must have some subtle differences.

Also I used microsofts calibration that you also suggested, and didd turn the green down a couple of notches, it did seem to help somewhat.

I kinda want to go back to my old xp, because the default screen was so acurrate to my prints, and I didn't have to do anything.

I'll keep playing around with those different ICC profiles, and see what works best. Thanks again for your help!!

Dustman --

Glad that I could be of some help! That's one feature of Win7 that I really like. Don't know if a feature is available or can't find the program or file? Just click the "Start" icon or tap the Windows key on your keyboard and start typing! That's how I discovered it -- started typing "color" an up popped "Color Management." Easy access to all kinds of things: printer settings, specific applications, even individual files.

You do have to be logged in as Administrator to change system settings, I believe.

My mom's laptop screen had a strong magenta cast to it. She said she didn't notice it but it was definitely there. I used the spyder3 to calibrate it and now it looks perfect.

I doubt I could have eyeballed this fix using RGB sliders without help from the calibration hardware.

I might invest in a spyder 3, or other color calibrater down the road, if it becomes too much of an issue with me down the road. I have heard of them, but never read up on them before, as I said color matching from my screen to my prints was always fine with me, until I got this new computer.
Is Spyder 3 one of the best? What is the best as per quality vs cost? If I got a cheap color calibration unit, will I get what I pay for?

Thanks again everyone