[DerMonkey]

hello! :)
i have my tft for a longer time now, but i still didn't manange to calibrate it right. on my crt i used adobe gamma, what worked quite well; but i tried it on the tft what totally doesn't work. (it says i should set contrasts to max, when i do that i got blooming everywhere^^)

for now i adjusted it per eye, which is ok, but i still get slightly errors when printing or viewing pictures on an other screen.

maybe someone has a tip or a good calibration freeware?

[Stahr]

I'm using tft and adobe gamma for the moment but i will get a hardware calibrator soon.
skip the first step in adobe gamma about contrast and that, after that pick rgb controls and try to sit as much straight infront of the monitor as possible, then adjust, it's much harder to see what's right on tft's but it works ok. What screen do you have? it's extra hard on a cheap screen with TN technology, where the viewing angles are crappy and you will get different calibration results deending on the exact angle you watch the screen while calibrating.
but the easy way out is buying a cheap calibration hardware, the colorvision huey(might got that name wrong) is quite cheap at about 100E.

[DerMonkey]

ok i have a quite cheap flat (medion-aldi^^), however i'm very happy with the results. the viewing angles aren't that bad; they are even better than on my vaio -.-
thx for the tip, i'll try adobe gamma once again :)
as for the calibration hardware, i will check the school, maybe i can borrow one....

[Stahr]

yesh check the school, that's your best choise ;) (I'm going to do that to when i start in september ;) )
good setings for contrast and brightness are often about 50% brightness and 50% contrast, maybe a bit lower on brightness if it's really bright.
and yeah, laptops don't have good viewing angles... really they're horrible, i'm about to get a new screen perhaps, my current samsung is crap, this time i will buy another panel technology for shure ;)