So. Spyder3 Pro showed up on Friday. Brought it to work this morning and calibrated my monitors.

Now the colors seem to be okay but sheesh it seems soooo much darker now. Even the white of PSC's layout seems to be more of a light gray. Is that normal? I had to ramp up the bright all the way to even get an approximation of white.

I did run the calibration without ambient light checking. Did that because the unit said the ambient light level was high (which makes sense with the 8 four-foot long fluorescent tubes above my head.

Should I set the bright back down to what it was after calibration? Or leave it up where I can actually see now?

Good now shut the fuck up and chop something!!!

Yeah, get back to work, ya sluggard!

A calibrated monitor always looks a bit dark to me as well.

The white is nowgrayish. Hmmm, send the thing back for a total refund plus a surcharge for F--k-- up your monitor.

PS: Or send to Oscar so he can be happy too!

Pfftt. I just cranked up the bright and re-calibrated. Is spiffy now.

And I've have indeed stfuac'd. Problem is that they're chops for work and not for PSC.

And...


Oh.

My.

Heck.

Reindude was spot on when he said the before and after of the monitor was shocking. Utterly and completely amazed at how much better this shitty monitor's color looks now.

So, are you going to charge your company for services rendered?

Nah. I justify my goofing off at work this way.

Yay. My spot is ON!

Congratulations Tofu!

I know exactly what you went through... and i'm sure you did not regret it one second, did you?

PS: If i remember right, the instructions of that thing mentioned somewhere, to use very less ambient light during calibration.... what was that acronym again... rtfm?

so this is the thread I (and apparently Reinbox) missed