Calibrating monitor?

[~AJ~]

Originally Posted by Doug Pardee

LCD monitors need calibrating even worse than CRT monitors do. CRT monitors can often be made half-way usable by software-and-eyeball calibration such as Adobe Gamma; LCD monitors can't. The inexpensive TN LCDs are really nasty color-wise and sometimes can't be calibrated acceptably at all, even with hardware calibrators.

Ah, k. Thanks Doug. I have an LG one and it seems to be really lovely with colour and anything I've edited on there prints out beautifully. But I will still look at getting a Spyder

Originally Posted by EmyB

Thanks for all your advice, especially Doug!

I'm looking at buying the Spyder 3 Express. I'm hoping it will be useful for at least 5 years (and through my next computer/monitor upgrade) but I read somewhere that you can only use it on one computer, it forces you to register and then it won't work with any other computer... is that right? Does anyone know?

The Spyder Pro can be used on more than one monitor. I went to the photography expo that was held at Darling Habour back in June, and spoke to someone there about it. I use both my lap top (for quick little personal editing) and my LG monitor which I plug my laptop into to edit properly. So he told me I need to get the Pro, rather than the express.

[lunathea]

I'm ordering the Spyder Pro. Seems to fit what I need, I hope I love it lol.