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How to make 2 monitors render the same colour ?
I have 2 monitors showing dark blue entirely differently, yet the cell in dreamweaver is a web safe colour.
How do I make them the same?
Else what are web safe colurs for ?
Art
How do I make them the same?
Else what are web safe colurs for ?
Art
To your question on the purpose of socalled 'websafe' colours:
Websafe colours are pretty useless, the only thing they prevent is dithering when viewed with 256 colours, but dithering is the last problem on a person who runns 256 colours mind, they obviously don't care about colours since they are still living in the stone age, numbers of colours on screen wise. It was one of those politicially correct standards which set out to make your designes look the same across different screens on different platforms (pc/mac), totally oblivious of the fact that different monitor types show colours very very very differently, so in reality, the only thing it does is to make life for a web designer more difficult than it already is by limiting it to 216 pretty basic colours.
I am sure, by posting this, some "but-we-have-to-enable-our
sina
london
Websafe colours are pretty useless, the only thing they prevent is dithering when viewed with 256 colours, but dithering is the last problem on a person who runns 256 colours mind, they obviously don't care about colours since they are still living in the stone age, numbers of colours on screen wise. It was one of those politicially correct standards which set out to make your designes look the same across different screens on different platforms (pc/mac), totally oblivious of the fact that different monitor types show colours very very very differently, so in reality, the only thing it does is to make life for a web designer more difficult than it already is by limiting it to 216 pretty basic colours.
I am sure, by posting this, some "but-we-have-to-enable-our
sina
london
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>>I have 2 monitors showing dark blue entirely differently, yet the cell in dreamweaver is a web safe colour.
How do I make them the same?
Look at them on the same monitor. That's the ONLY place they'll be the same. ;-)
You won't even see two TVs, from the SAME manufacturer, getting the SAME signal, in the SAME room, give you the same color. What makes you think your monitor is any different?
Color matching is for PRINT, not web. You don't control the color to that extent for any projection/display device.
How do I make them the same?
Look at them on the same monitor. That's the ONLY place they'll be the same. ;-)
You won't even see two TVs, from the SAME manufacturer, getting the SAME signal, in the SAME room, give you the same color. What makes you think your monitor is any different?
Color matching is for PRINT, not web. You don't control the color to that extent for any projection/display device.
There are three big calibration variables: gamma, white point temperature, and phosphor color. You already affected phosphor color by purchasing a specific monitor. It's a hardware thing.
You can change the white point temp through a hardware control on the front of the monitor (if it's newer) and sometimes through software, depending on your OS. The higher the temp, the bluer white will appear (as opposed to red or green). This has the effect of appearing more "white".
Gamma is the most noticeable. You can affect this using a freeware utility such as Adobe's Gamma. The thing to remember is that Windoze systems are set to a default gamma of 2.20. Macs are defaulted to 1.80, SGIs are 1.70. You should also note that the sRGB standard, which web-safe colors are based around, calls for a gamma of 2.20.
To make these adjustments, you should create a "target" image. One comes with Photoshop but you can build your own. It should have an image that includes skin tones and other bright colors like red, blue, green and yellow. It should also have areas of a variety of solid colors, including white and black. bring this image up, in the same program, on both monitors at the same time.
Once you've done this, make your gamma and white point adjustments. You can usually safe these adjustments as a "profile" of some sort so that you can come back to the exact settings if needed.
Keep in mind, as others stated above, this is all relative. It only applies to your system. It may go right out the window on another machine.
You can change the white point temp through a hardware control on the front of the monitor (if it's newer) and sometimes through software, depending on your OS. The higher the temp, the bluer white will appear (as opposed to red or green). This has the effect of appearing more "white".
Gamma is the most noticeable. You can affect this using a freeware utility such as Adobe's Gamma. The thing to remember is that Windoze systems are set to a default gamma of 2.20. Macs are defaulted to 1.80, SGIs are 1.70. You should also note that the sRGB standard, which web-safe colors are based around, calls for a gamma of 2.20.
To make these adjustments, you should create a "target" image. One comes with Photoshop but you can build your own. It should have an image that includes skin tones and other bright colors like red, blue, green and yellow. It should also have areas of a variety of solid colors, including white and black. bring this image up, in the same program, on both monitors at the same time.
Once you've done this, make your gamma and white point adjustments. You can usually safe these adjustments as a "profile" of some sort so that you can come back to the exact settings if needed.
Keep in mind, as others stated above, this is all relative. It only applies to your system. It may go right out the window on another machine.
It WILL go right out the window on any other monitor.
You can NEVER know what a color will look like on any monitor but YOURS.
If you're doing web work, going through all that hassle and expense is a complete waste. It's crucial for PRINT though. But USELESS for WEB.
You can NEVER know what a color will look like on any monitor but YOURS.
If you're doing web work, going through all that hassle and expense is a complete waste. It's crucial for PRINT though. But USELESS for WEB.
=^)